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guyachambers So sad to hear of the passing of BB yesterday. He was a huge influence on me growing up and help shape me as songwriter. His unexpected twists and turns with melody and bar lengths gave his songs so much individuality and helped define him as one the true great originals in American 20th Century music. I was lucky enough to see him perform at the Royal Festival Hall in the 80s and I was struck then by not only the scale of his catalogue but the incredible quality of pretty everything he wrote. He will be much missed

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OK folks, off to OZ for a couple of weeks , catch up when I get back :cool:
OK folks, off to OZ for a couple of weeks , catch up when I get back :cool:

Safe travels Tess :heart: xxxxxx

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I spent a day last week down in the Bowral area in NSW where Robbie will be later on this year when he does the Day On The Green gigs. Turns out friends of family live in the area , it's about three hours by train south of Sydney in the Southern Highlands , very rural but very nice. Seems the towns in the are do very well ( hotels etc ) when these gigs are on as people travel from all over . Sting was there on the night we visited .

 

We went to a Bowling club for lunch, there were two guys there playing C & W music , it was like going back in time but lovely, half the people I think were asleep :lol:

I spent a day last week down in the Bowral area in NSW where Robbie will be later on this year when he does the Day On The Green gigs. Turns out friends of family live in the area , it's about three hours by train south of Sydney in the Southern Highlands , very rural but very nice. Seems the towns in the are do very well ( hotels etc ) when these gigs are on as people travel from all over . Sting was there on the night we visited .

 

We went to a Bowling club for lunch, there were two guys there playing C & W music , it was like going back in time but lovely, half the people I think were asleep :lol:

 

Sounds beautiful Tess ^_^

Robbie Williams and Billie Eilish help 3Arena garner revenues of €49.2m

 

Sell-out shows by Robbie Williams, Billie Eilish, Dua Lipa, Andrea Bocelli and Kendrick Lamar last year helped the 3Arena in Dublin to box office revenues of €49.2 million.

 

According to figures provided by trade industry journal Pollstar, the Live Nation-owned 3Arena recovered from the Covid-19 shutdown to be ranked in the top-40 best-attended arenas worldwide in 2022.

 

The Pollstar figures – based on returns made by the 3Arena – show that the most lucrative string of gigs last year at the venue were performed by Robbie Williams, Billie Eilish, Andrea Bocelli, Kendrick Lamar and Andre Rieu.

 

Earlier this week, a special one-off gig by Ed Sheeran was announced for the venue in May with tickets starting at €105.85.

 

Fans of Robbie Williams stumped up €92 per ticket on average for his three gigs last autumn with the Rock DJ artist averaging over €1 million at the box office for the three nights where 34,529 fans attended.

 

In September, Andrea Bocelli recorded box office sales of €1.1 million for each of the two nights where fans paid out €143 on average.

 

Over two nights in April, Billie Eilish’s gigs generated €1.99 million after more than 24,000 fans went through the doors at the 3Arena to hear her perform Bad Guy and Happier than Ever.

 

More than 50 years after her US number-one hit, Ain’t no Mountain High Enough Diana Ross is still a massive draw, earning €831,746 at the box office for her one night at the 3Arena last March.

 

Dua Lipa had two sold-out gigs last April which generated €1.1 million. The New Rules singer performed in front of 25,374 fans across the two nights.

 

Last May, Andre Rieu’s gigs generated €2.15 million at the 3Arena.

 

Rap artist Kendrick Lamar was one of a select number of artists to generate an average of more than €1 million per night at the 3Arena when his two November gigs took in €2.09 million at the box office. The Kings of Leon recorded a box office take of €1.1 million for one night last June.

 

Irish artists also featured prominently – Dermot Kennedy generated €891,028 over two dates at the venue in the period under review.

 

The Script generated €1.3 million at the box office across three nights last June. Box office receipts are shared between performer, promoter, ticket seller and venue operator.

 

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2023/03...venues-of-492m/

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Here we go again :rolleyes: .

 

I am sure Rob is never actually going to live in the house, all this work must be for investment puropses. The last building in London I can remember hand tools being used on was Claridges & that cost an absolute fortune

 

Robbie Williams faces new setback in plans to build an underground leisure complex at his west London home

After four years of dispute, Williams finally secured planning permission to build his underground spa complex in 2019, with building work starting in September last year. Now, however, the application has been reopened.

 

 

Robbie Williams’ long-contested plans to create an underground swimming pool and gym at his west London house have been put on hold again due to a problem with his planning application. The Angels singer bought his Grade II-listed home in Holland Park, near Kensington High Street, for £17.5 million in 2014, intending to make some changes to the historic building. Yet Williams’ plans for his Queen Anne style home have been the centre of a long-running planning row with his neighbour, Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page, who has lived in the Grade I-listed property next door since 1972.

 

In 2015, Williams submitted his first planning application to Kensington and Chelsea council for an underground basement below the back garden, which was intended to house a swimming pool and spa facilities, and would be connected to the house by a tunnel. He withdrew the application later six weeks later, after pushback from Page.

 

In 2018, after difficulty negotiating several other modifications to his property —including a summer house, new skylight and the felling of a Lombardy poplar tree— Williams revisited his plans for a super basement and submitted a new planning application. Page publicly objected to the construction on the grounds that the vibration and ground movement would cause “catastrophic” damage his own house, while the proposed works would encroach on the boundary wall between the two musicians’ properties. “The Tower House was built in the 1870s by the eminent Victorian architect, William Burges, for his own use…[it] is listed Grade I and is thus one of the most important historic buildings in the borough,” wrote Page in objection to the proposal at the time. “The consequences for the building fabric and decorative finishes of the Tower House may well be catastrophic if this project is allowed to proceed. “Having protected Tower House for over forty years, I am now continuing the fight against a new threat to this precious and unique building.”

 

Other residents expressed concerns about noise and disturbance from the building work, while the council also received notes from local residents Charles Booth-Clibborn, founder of art publishers Paragon Press, and Odran Jennings, one-time member of 1990s alt-rockers Out of My Hair. Jennings even took it upon himself to hand-deliver a selection of architectural books, including a volume on Burges, to Williams’ house. Still, in October 2019, Williams was finally granted permission to build his leisure complex, on the condition that significant measures be taken to prevent vibration and noise – including the use of anti-vibration mounts and the requirement that only hand tools weighing no more than nine kilos should be used for the work. And so, in September last year, Williams’ work finally began – until January 13, when construction ground to a halt once more. Williams has been instructed that he must apply for the deeds of his property to be legally changed for the building work to go ahead. This, however, has reopened the planning application, with notices erected on trees in the area inviting residents to comment.

 

Public consultation was open until February 10 and Williams is expected to have a decision this month. But in the interim, his builders have had to put down their (hand) tools. It is not Williams’ only setback since building work began. He was forced to withdraw his application to install a wooden trellis around his garden for privacy in January – a plan that drew a snarky response from a member of the public (clearly not a fan). They wrote: “An Englishman’s home is his castle and he should be afforded his right. The general public would perhaps benefit from the fence being higher and being constructed to a sound-proofed standard.”

 

Williams sold three of his properties in 2021, including his “haunted” seven-bedroom Wiltshire estate for £6.75 million; Swiss estate for £24 million and Beverley Hills mansion, which Drake bought for £38.2 million. He opted to replace them with a $49.5 million mansion in Holmby Hills, California.

 

 

https://www.standard.co.uk/homesandproperty...k-b1058617.html

 

ROBBIE WILLIAMS TOP 10: THE STAR ENTERTAINER'S BEST HITS!

 

For over 25 years he has been delighting audiences worldwide with a multitude of great hits. Crowded concert halls and a number of top chart positions underline the importance of the singer in the music scene. We present you the best Robbie Williams songs! Our ranking ranges from Advertising Space to Let Me Entertain You and provides you with exciting facts about the respective songs. There is also the entire leaderboard as a Spotify playlist.

 

by Patrick Meerwald

 

This man has been extremely successful as a solo artist for over 25 years . Until 1995 in the boy band Take That , Robbie Williams really took off in 1997 . With his countless hits, he also knows how to come up with masterful entertainment skills and is still an absolute heartthrob to this day.

 

The best Robbie Williams songs: The top 10 as a leaderboard

Before his Vienna double (March 16th and 17th in the Stadthalle - read our big preview here ) we present you the best Robbie Williams songs as a large ranking list, peppered with facts, oddities and other exciting information about the respective titles. There is a detailed list of the top 10, places 11 to 20 in compact form and the entire ranking as a Spotify playlist.

 

10. Advertising Space

On this number Robbie Williams covers the deep fall of the king of rock 'n' roll . It hit him particularly hard that such a big figure in the global music world as Presley was being overly commercialized by society. This process was exploited more and more after his death. The ballad is a hymn to the great Elvis Presley (here, by the way, is our Elvis Top 10 ) and at the same time a criticism of what society has made of him: a song that is guaranteed to be one of the most profound and melancholic from the Williams repertoire .

 

Album: Intensive Care Released: 2005

 

9. Supreme

The string passages in this song may sound familiar to some. Rightly so: They're a sample of the well-known 80's number I Will Survive by Gloria Gaynor . Williams later said he had the idea at a New Year's Eve party in Switzerland . "It was just after midnight, the rockets were already going off, I was sober and having the best New Year's Eve of my life, everyone was dancing to the song and I thought to myself. The strings sound great, I'll make a song out of them!" like Williams. The rest is (success) history.

 

Album: Sing When You're Winning Released: 2000

 

8.Candy

For this number, Robbie Williams collaborated with former boy band member and friend Gary Barlow . The collab should pay off. Williams himself was very happy, albeit surprised, at how quickly he finished this song with Barlow . "Some feel like it takes me years, others (like Candy ) just come out of the mouth perfectly and you don't have to think much about it." Thematically, it's not very profound: Robbie Williams: "It's about a girl who thinks it's 'the shit' and I slept with her ..."

 

Album: Take The Crown Released: 2012

 

7. Rock DJ

The best Robbie Williams songs are not complete without at least some controversy. Rock DJ is a coherent representative. Above all, the accompanying music video is definitely not without . In this, Williams tries to inspire a DJane. First he raps in front of her, which doesn't interest her at all. The fact that he gradually undresses completely interests her peripherally, if at all. Only when he pulls his own skin off and continues to dance does she register him. This very gory content drew a lot of (partly negative) publicity. Among other things, the Dominican Republic banned the video because it contained allusions to Satanism .

 

Album: Sing When You're Winning Released: 2000

 

6. Bodies

Our number 6 in the big Robbie Williams ranking is Bodies. To some extent, the title represents a comeback for the singer. Since the release of She's Madonna (2007), nothing new from the Brit has appeared for almost two years. For the song, Robbie Williams brought a true veteran producer on board in Trevor Horn . He had previously worked very successfully with Paul McCartney, Seal and Tina Turner . Thematically , Bodies deals with the paranormal; an area that fascinates Robbie extremely and also likes to process it musically.

 

Album: Reality Killed the Video Star Released: 2009

 

5. She's the One

Interestingly, the following song wasn't originally by Robbie Williams. The band World Party recorded it back in 1997 and, according to their frontman Karl Wallinger, the song was written in 10 minutes and recorded in 90 minutes . It was absolutely no success for the band. However, as luck would have it, Robbie Williams found and recorded the song through his songwriting partner Guy Chambers. Williams' variant ended up being number 1 in the UK. Wallinger didn't like it at all. He once said that the main difference between Robbie's and his original is that at least he knows who "The One" is in the song and so Williams would have no idea about the song.

 

Album: I've Been Expecting You Released: 1998

 

4. Somethin' Stupid

Close, but still scraped off the podium, Something Stupid is a special number in many ways. There is no other duet in our ranking of the best Robbie Williams songs. Williams was so taken with Nicole Kidman's performance in the musical Moulin Rouge beforehand that he was keen to sing with her. Together, the two brought a seductive, not to say erotic, component to Frank and Nancy Sinatra's original father-daughter song . The response to the new interpretation spoke volumes. For example, the song was played 25 times on BBC Radio 2 in a week . An absolute record – to this day!

 

Album: Escapology Released: 2002

 

3. Angels

After Robbie Williams left Take That in 1995, he and his work were relatively quiet for a long time. But with Angels he made an impressive comeback in 1997. The song subsequently marked his international breakthrough as a solo artist and also silenced the last critics who didn't want to believe in his success . Angels is not intended for anyone in particular, but for those who have lost loved ones but should not lose hope. Because, according to Williams, they return and take care of their loved ones.

 

Album: Life Thru A Lens Released : 1997

 

2.Feel

In Feel, the otherwise Mister Cool shows his vulnerable side. Although he often wears a big grin to the outside world, the breakup with Take That , depression and self-doubt had added to his aftermath. He longed for a happy relationship , a loving family, but his insecurities made it impossible for him to feel that love . And that's exactly what Feel is about.

 

Album: Escapology Released: 2002

 

1. Let Me Entertain You

After the release, this number blossomed into a real mood maker and the starter for countless live performances by Robbie Williams . The text is more of a motivation for a woman to cheat on her partner. So it might be! He performed it as the opening song at the Brit Awards in 1999, impressed with the number on Live 8 in 2005 and even played it big in 2012 for Queen Elizabeth II's diamond wedding anniversary. He also got billions of football fans in the mood for the 2018 World Cup in Russia when he played the song at the opening ceremony in Moscow. A hit that still ignites powerfully more than 20 years after its first appearance!

 

Album: Life Thru A Lens Released : 1997

 

 

The best Robbie Williams songs: places 11 to 20

If you are looking for the best Robbie Williams songs , you will quickly notice that ten songs are hardly enough for lists of the best. That's why we're adding positions 11 to 20 to our list . You can find all songs from the ranking in the Spotify playlist.

 

11. Sin Sin Sin

12. Tripping

13. Old Before I die

14. Come Undone

15. Eternity

16. Sexed Up

17. Love My Life

18. Misunderstood

19. Millenium

20. Better Man

 

 

https://www.heldenderfreizeit.com/die-beste...williams-songs/

 

 

Did any of you see the Paul Yates documentary on CH4 , Robbie made some brief appearances on same.

 

My thoughts at the end of the documentary was how badly the press/tabloids treated her at the time & not only her , I was also thinking Amy Winehouse both no longer on this earth . I also thought that Rob was one of the lucky ones , he got away, went to America , found excellent management & people who really cared about him & those that didn't he saw them eventually for what they were & not true friends & he made it to where he is today .

 

 

Whose work inspires you now?

 

Michaela Coel, Julia Ducournau, Lynne Ramsay, Ruben Östlund, Maya Deren, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Andrea Arnold, Sharon Olds, Chen Chen, Kim Addonizio, Ocean Vuong, Billy Letford, Roseanne Watt, Louise Bourgeois, Diane Arbus, ABBA, Wet Leg, Rihanna, Madonna, Robbie Williams, Dolly Parton, Rura, and Lankum. I have no consistency in my taste.

 

https://www.theskinny.co.uk/theatre/intervi...leyla-josephine

 

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Really sad to read about the death of the lovely Paul O'Grady, may he R.I.P

 

 

Some lovely memories of Robbie with Paul :heart:

 

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That interview of Robbie and Gary on Paul O'Grady is still one of my favourite ones.

 

Paul O'Grady was such a kind, lovely man.

 

I'm so sad he's died.

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