Robbie Williams

Robbie Williams is a rare example of an artist leaving a successful band to pursue an even more successful solo career. In the boy band Take That, Robbie played the unenviable role of a cute boy dancer who was allowed to the microphone on big holidays. Having trumped five years, Rob left the group with a scandal, giving out a freak show at the Glastonbury Festival. Williams had a good drink with his new friends from Oasis, and then, during their performance, he jumped onto the stage and performed shamanic dances there. Robbie was signed to EMI and hired an experienced writer and producer, Guy Chambers. The debut album "Life Thru A Lens" showed Britpop (friendship with the Galager brothers was not in vain), but Take That's audience was not ready for this turn of events. The disc would have failed, if not for the ballad Angels, the single with which became a "millionaire" (which was not least contributed to by the scandal: the press dug up an Irish singer from whom Rob allegedly bought a song after hearing him perform it in a bar).
Читать далее