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I'm trying to continue my annual tradition to make something for fans on Sep-10 (the date when the gig in Moscow was cancelled).

Now I'm working on translation of one of Robbie's book... At the moment thinking about book's cover.

 

Can you help me and advise your favourites quotes by Rob?

 

https://www.instagram.com/p/B1HqqC8oHCu/

LOL, never paid attention!!

 

 

I will have a think about that one Alex, Robbie has said so much :thinking:

 

 

How about this ...

 

 

"I don't know about an awful lot of stuff. I'm not educated. I left school when I was 16, with no qualifications. The thing that I do know about is my feelings and what I think of the world and what I think of me."

 

 

 

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He is the master of excellent quotes.

 

"Inside me there is a fat man dying to get out." :lol:

 

"I want you to remember something for me. My name is Robbie Williams. I'm a singer, a songwriter, and a born entertainer." :wub:

 

"There used to be a huge hole in my life that I wrote many albums about. I didn't realise it was a wife-and-daughter-shaped hole. They've plugged that gap. Everything I do, I do for them now. When daddy goes to work, it's daddy going to work, not Rob going to work. I feel like there's a purpose to everything." ^_^

SOUNDING BOARD

It’s Been 20 Years Since Robbie Williams Failed To Take America

Ian King | September 6, 2019 - 3:37 pm

 

https://www.stereogum.com/2057322/robbie-wi...sounding-board/

 

Interesting comments to that article.

 

 

Nearly all of them positive. Talking about Canada/Mexico/Latin America etc B-)

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Below are the comments ,

 

 

marko

I feel like he was at least a bit more of a thing here over in Canada. That or I just watched way too much Much Music.

 

09/6/19 3:48 PM+7REPLY

 

Rodrigo Rothschild

same in Mexico.

 

09/6/19 4:01 PM0REPLY

 

RadioFreeYurp

Same. For a very long time, turning on Much Music and letting it play all day was just something I would do.

 

"Rock DJ" is always a killer song, same goes for "Kids" that he did with Kylie Minogue.

 

09/6/19 5:36 PM+1REPLY

 

bobandycore

Don't really know the guy's music but he sure is a hoot on Graham Norton.

 

09/6/19 3:50 PM+2REPLY

 

StupidAsshole

who tf

 

09/6/19 3:51 PM+1REPLY

 

sandro

The original poptimist...that's who. My guy has bops for years...

 

09/6/19 3:57 PM+5REPLY

 

conditionals

This article stops right where he released Rudebox, one of my favourite albums. It's flawed, misguided, incongruous and batshit insane. I love it.

 

09/6/19 4:11 PM+1REPLY

 

You Beautiful Blyat

I haven't heard "Back for Good" in at least 20 years and I still know the bridge and chorus by heart, which is an indication of a really f***ing good song.

 

Having said that, it would have been a #1 in the US if it weren't so damn British. "We will never be uncommon again" and "you'll be right and understood" is claws-on-a-chalkboard stuff to American ears.

09/6/19 4:24 PM+6REPLY

 

Rory

when I worked at Zara in college the company mandated playlist contained soooo much Robbie Williams. Rock DJ is pretty good!

 

09/6/19 4:28 PM+4REPLY

 

up2life

Guess I was one of the only Americans to own all three of his albums. I played them a lot. He had some very good songs...And he sang with an American accent, so I'm not sure about the accuracy of the "too British" theories regarding his lack of success here. Maybe it was an image thing? Who knows. But for those who like mainstream leaning pop-rock with a bit of an edge, I definitely recommend checking out his stuff.

 

09/6/19 4:30 PM+1REPLY

 

Tom Frost

I am an unabashed fan of Robbie, though I have not really listened to anything new he has released in over a decade. Here in Australia, the first two albums were combined into one release: The Ego Has Landed. That album, plus Sing When Your Winning, got a lot of play on the CD player of my Holden Astra. I saw him live in Melbourne at the end of 2001 - I may or may not have gone to the show with my ex-girlfriend in the dim hope of winning back said ex-girlfriend - and it was a killer concert. Purely for entertainment value, at the time it was one of the best concerts I had seen. I was in London in 2003, but did not make it to his Knebworth shows. If you want an understanding of what Robbie meant to the U.K. at that time, check out some of the footage of that Knebworth concert (I have the DVD if you want to borrow it). It is awesome.

09/6/19 4:40 PM+4REPLY

 

Tom Frost

 

 

Here is "Angels" at Knebworth

 

09/6/19 4:44 PM+3REPLY

 

cappie the dog

In 1995, I thought for sure that Whipping Boy’s second album “Heartworm” was going to take America by storm. They’re Irish, but “When We Were Young” was as good as anything put out by Blur/Oasis/Pulp. Columbia did a poor job of breaking established U.K. acts. (Deacon Blue, Prefab Sprout)

09/6/19 5:08 PM+2REPLY

 

knaboscot

"We Don't Need Nobody Else" slaps both musically and sentimentally

 

also, wasn't Juniper (a.k.a. Damien Rice's band before he was you know, Damien Rice) signed to Columbia as well?

 

09/6/19 5:24 PM+2REPLY

 

cappie the dog

Agree. 3 albums. They reinvented themselves as shoegazers on their swan song. Dublin bands not named U2 struggled to find a North American audience. I wrote a fan letter to David Couse of A House. He wr

 

09/6/19 5:41 PM+2REPLY

 

ote back.

 

I don’t know who Juniper is. See. That’s Columbia’s fault.du_husker

Robbie is from my home town of Stoke but I’ve lived in Australia for years where he’s quite big. It’s tradition in my family when one of his songs comes on to say ‘local boy done good.’ So, you know, local boy done good...

 

09/6/19 5:33 PM+3REPLY

 

gobias somecoffee

If you want to make a 20something British person like myself feel like they're already way into their 30's, just slap them about the face with this headline......which is how reading it felt.

 

09/6/19 5:57 PM+2REPLY

 

FireSitWithMe

He was big in Latin American MTV. I can tell you that much.

 

09/6/19 6:39 PM0REPLY

 

who1

It’s kinda felt like a secret club to be an American Robbie fan, but also bizarre to be importing albums for an artist selling out massive stadiums worldwide. But to just about anyone, the conversation would inevitably flit between, “No, not Mrs. Doubtfire...” to “Okay, you know in the credits of Finding Nemo when they cover Beyond the Sea?” and finally, “Fine, let me just pull up this boy band video. Yes yes, you remember this song. Okay, see the wet guy in the fur coat who looks pissed to be there? That’s the biggest pop star in Europe right now.”

It’s worth mentioning he sold out a residency in Las Vegas this year and constantly made fun of not breaking America: “My name is a Robbie Williams, if you had a good time tonight, go out and tell your f*cking friends about me!”

 

09/6/19 7:08 PM+1REPLY

 

evmo1

I used to follow the UK charts and noticed this singer Robbie Williams was always topping the lists. When I read that his Knebworth gig attracted 375,000 over 3 nights and was just released on DVD, I had to find out what I was missing. I was blown away. It still remains the best concert I’ve never attended. Odds were slim he’d never come to the states, so I scored tickets to his 2006 Close Encounter tour at Corke Park in Dublin along with my Niece, Nephew and a Robbie fan from work. He did finally make it to the states this year with a sold out residency at the Wynn which proved to be a warmup for headlining Hyde Park.

https://www.vice.com/en_in/article/zmpam5/r...yde-park-review

 

Supreme from Knebworth

 

 

09/6/19 7:12 PM+1REPLY

 

Analogbrat

Ego Has Landed is such a great lost album, a pop banger unparalleled in its time. "Angels" was one of our wedding songs and it hasn't aged in my mind a bit. Poptimism at its finest!

 

09/6/19 7:17 PM+2REPLY

 

trecoolx

I remember "Millennium" being catchy when it came out, and"Angels" failed to make an impression, but "Let Me Entertain You" was my favorite of his American releases from "The Ego Has Landed". That song alone had me anticipating his next album, and "Rock DJ" was a jam; "Kids" wasn't bad, either.

 

After that, I had to seek out "Escapeology" to hear anything, as the stations and TV I tuned in to weren't playing him. It was probably around that time when music publications started writing articles hypothesizing what went wrong with Williams' push for American stardom. I haven't heard much else from him.

 

09/6/19 7:33 PM0REPLY

 

Dr. Duncan Steele

Amazing article, never heard of this dude before. The justin Timberlake comparisons are apt though

 

09/6/19 11:10 PM0REPLY

 

nevans

I'm pretty sure the "Rock DJ" single handedly made me realize I was gay when I saw it on The Box at age 14...

 

09/6/19 11:35 PM0

 

https://www.stereogum.com/2057322/robbie-wi...sounding-board/

Military Wives

Peter Cattaneo , Oscar nominee for All or Nothing, is back with yet another story of how life can change when you dare to perform together. In the lead roles we see Kristin Scott Thomas and Sharon Horgan . When an awkward collection of wives and girlfriends of the men on a military base form a choir, they find a common passion. The friendship helps them deal with their concerns about the men in battle in this reality-based film, to which Robbie Williams wrote a song. The film gets its world premiere in Toronto, and has the Swedish bio premiere in 2020.

 

http://www.mynewsdesk.com/se/scanbox/press...toronto-2910263

Thank you for quotes!!

I chose this: 'Thank you for growing old with me' but in Russian :)

 

My translation is almost ready and since September 16, every Monday I will upload a new chapter.

It's in Russian but if you have never read this book (it's official book but very rare) you can use Google Tranlslator.

It's a great book actually...

 

I started to work on this in 2011 but it was a very long and winding road..!

 

http://s5.uploads.ru/xM60T.jpg

Edited by Better Man

Thank you for quotes!!

I chose this: 'Thank you for growing old with me' but in Russian :)

 

My translation is almost ready and since September 16, every Monday I will upload a new chapter.

It's in Russian but if you have never read this book (it's official book but very rare) you can use Google Tranlslator.

It's a great book actually...

 

I started to work on this in 2011 but it was a very long and winding road..!

 

http://s5.uploads.ru/xM60T.jpg

 

Gosh !! , well done Alex, looking forward to reading it :)

 

Military Wives the movie is doing the festival rounds, cannot find anything on the music , Robbie & Guy were supposed to have written the soundtrack
Thank you for quotes!!

I chose this: 'Thank you for growing old with me' but in Russian :)

 

My translation is almost ready and since September 16, every Monday I will upload a new chapter.

It's in Russian but if you have never read this book (it's official book but very rare) you can use Google Tranlslator.

It's a great book actually...

 

I started to work on this in 2011 but it was a very long and winding road..!

 

http://s5.uploads.ru/xM60T.jpg

 

Nice quote Alex :)

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I found this:

 

Robbie Williams and Guy Chambers have written a song for the film, after being approached by producers via music supervisor Liz Gallacher.

It is not yet known if Robbie will also sing the track, or whether it will be recorded by choir.

Speaking about the song, Robbie and Guy said: "It's always a joy to work together on new music, and we're thrilled that our new song will be featured in this special film. We're really proud of the track and can't wait for you all to hear it."

The production team added: "Over the last few months, Kristin, Sharon and our hugely talented ensemble cast have put their hearts and voices into telling this tale, which demonstrates how a community of strong women can come together and literally change lives.

"Having Robbie and Guy collaborate with us on the original music, which is so essential to the journey of these characters, is truly exciting."

There are lots of reviews about the film ( Toronto ) but little in the credits about the music :mellow:

Do you think Bieber and Buble are still these household names, Alex? Taste changes so fast. Now it is all about the Billie Eilish way of songs with the youngsters or a collab of hip hop artist plus or EDM artist plus or Taylor Swift...

I have not heard of Buble for a long time musicwise... (which does not really mean something :-) )

Bieber is def yes.

At least 2 months ago he got his Number 1 single in UK.

He is still very young and would be great if he continues work hard. Never been his supporter but I wish any succusseful artists to have this success longer - it could be a great motivation for everybody never give up and find the new ways.

 

Yes, that's why I love Rob.

 

Guys, need your final help with a project.

Just let me know what photo do you prefer, OK?

https://www.instagram.com/p/B2Y9q8LIFFu

Edited by Better Man

Bieber is def yes.

At least 2 months ago he got his Number 1 single in UK.

He is still very young and would be great if he will continue to work hard. Never been his supporter but I wish any succusseful artists to have this longer - it could be a great motivation for everybody never give up.

 

Yes, that's why I love Rob.

 

Guys, need your final help with a project.

Just let me know what photo do you prefer, OK?

https://www.instagram.com/p/B2Y9q8LIFFu

 

I like the first boxing one Alex - in red. :)

That's hard to decide. I would also say the red one or more classical the third last with the white suit where he looks to the side.

 

The first one is nice too but he doesn't look too familiar there :mellow:.

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