Yes, 1974 or even better "Dickhead" :lol:

:lol: :lol: :lol:

 

A superb title. ^_^

Yes, 1974 or even better "Dickhead" :lol:

 

Well guys I like 1974 or Dickhead too for the Rudebox title, but we all know that besides the 'bloody' press even EMI wouldn't agree for a name like that... (suckers)

 

EMI is trying to milk their golden 'cow'.....

 

Hope RW gets out his albums for EMI in a short period (1,5 yrs) so he can call it quits with EMI....

 

:cheer: :cheer: :cheer:

 

Holding on to his Rudebox

October 21, 2006

 

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ROBBIE WILLIAMS gave everyone a cheeky treat when he flashed his bum while on stage.

 

The singer was performing at the MTV Latin America Awards when he turned his back to the audience and dropped his kecks for the ladies.

 

And he wasn’t finished there. Moments later he stuck his hand down the front of his trousers for a right old rummage round.

 

Robbie was at the Mexico City bash to pick up the Best International Pop Star gong. We’ll find out a week tomorrow how his new album Rudebox has fared in the charts.

 

 

Holding on to his Rudebox

October 21, 2006

 

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ROBBIE WILLIAMS gave everyone a cheeky treat when he flashed his bum while on stage.

 

The singer was performing at the MTV Latin America Awards when he turned his back to the audience and dropped his kecks for the ladies.

 

And he wasn’t finished there. Moments later he stuck his hand down the front of his trousers for a right old rummage round.

 

Damm. Why didn't that happen in Amsterdam last June??

It's a bit silly to stare at a picture of a bum, isn't it??? I rather lay my hands on them cheekies :dance:

 

:cheer: :cheer: :cheer:

TAKE THAT, ROBBIE!

people.co.uk

 

ROBBIE SAVAGE has exacted revenge on Robbie Williams - after the pop star branded him gay for a second time.

 

Blackburn's blond bombshell revealed an 'I Love Robbie W message on his vest after his side's draw with Liverpool last week.

 

Sav had been planning to whip off his top after scoring but had to settle for a picture opportunity when he wapped shirts with old pal Craig Bellamy. The Williams-Savage playful war of words has been ongoing for a few months.

 

The Welshman and his wife, in a group including Wayne Rooney and Michael Carrick, met Williams backstage at his Milton Keynes gig last month I after the singer the audience: "I've had mischievously met him, he's 'outed' him at a definitely gay."

So Sav hit back Williams pointed but will his be the out Savage and told last word?

 

Honorary Doctors 2006

 

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http://www.staffs.ac.uk/university/honoraries/

 

Jan Williams

Jan has been working as a counsellor for 18 years, dealing with the affects of alcohol abuse on families and working with children who are affected by a family member’s drinking. It was her experience as a counsellor that helped when her son, Robbie Williams, began his own North Staffordshire based charity Give It Sum in June 2000.

 

The Honorary Award of DUniv was bestowed in recognition of services to local community.

 

 

Jan Williams has been working as a counsellor for 18 years, dealing with the affects of alcohol abuse on families and working with children who are affected by a family member’s drinking.

 

It was her experience as a counsellor that helped when her son, Robbie Williams, began his own North Staffordshire based charity Give It Sum in June 2000. Jan was happy to pitch in and open up her skills to the local community.

 

Born and raised in Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent, Jan attended convent school before going to work as a telephone operator for the GPO. After the birth of daughter Sally, Jan worked as a telephonist receptionist at the switchboard of a local company, eventually leaving before the birth of future pop legend Robbie.

 

She had her first introduction to the world of business when she moved into the Red Lion pub in Burslem. Jan was forced to develop her business skills when she took the licence over from her husband and found herself running the pub alone when Robbie was still only 12 months old.

 

It was this experience of working behind a bar and being a listening ear to customers with problems that influenced Jan’s later work with the Staffordshire Alcohol Advisory Service.

 

After living in the pub for three years, Jan decided she wanted to put a deposit down on a house.

 

Soon afterwards she had started up her own dress shop in Little Chell, running her own business for a further three years.

 

Once her children had grown up, Jan decided to put her experience to good use and signed up to a Counselling Skills course at Cauldon College (now Stoke-on-Trent College).

 

She became fascinated with the psychology behind counselling and drew on her experiences to become specialised in dealing with people suffering from alcohol related problems.

 

Once qualified, Jan began her service with the Staffordshire Alcohol Advisory Service, working with individual clients as well as in group work for over six years.

 

Give It Sum aims to help all sorts of causes across North Staffordshire, improving local conditions and strengthening community life by giving money to those who are disadvantaged.

 

Using her skills to help people is something that Jan is passionate about. She has achieved a lot in her work with the local community and still finds it rewarding to see that she has made a real difference to different people’s lives.

 

Thanks to purerobbie :yahoo:

WOW, that's FANTASTIC!! Good for Mrs. W!!

Yes, Rob will be very proud :cool:

Merciless Robbie williams comes to grips with his own drug- and alcohol abuse. But his shattered mind still agonises him.

 

"I'm walking a thin, thin line"

 

 

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On a thin line Robbie Williams balances genious and insanity

This is pretty much what it's like when the frightened Robert meets Robbie the punk, all in the same Williams.

Robbie can be such an scumbag sometimes, but it's ok. He is a great shield for me, and I know him. After all, it was me who created him, he explains.

 

Robert was born on Stoke-On-Trent 32 and a half years ago, but turned into Robbie when he gained superstardom through the boyband Take That in the nineties. Robbie was the on who took most off, he needed to create his shield. I've tried to kill him off several times. But he's just me! I'm grown up enough now to accept who he is, and he who I am. And who we are together. Sure, I know it's f***ing arrogant to talk about myself in 3rd person, but I have to. There are 2 persons in this relationship, and I love them both, he grins.

 

As the only norwegian press, VG helg meets Robbie at the Conrad Hotel at the harbour of Chelsea. It's early autumn, and mild noon in London. The visit took lace half an hour before scheduled time, almost unheard of for a star of his calibre. Under his blue tracksuit top, quite a bit of hair and a few tattoos are visible. He chain smokes Silk Cut, but looks good. Witty and verbal. Self ironical, but vulnerable at the same time. He coughs up the opening line.

Today I feel great, actally. Ehm, mid tour, exhausted the last few days, but have a great album coming out soon, I woke up today by the sun shining. Tried to reconstruct my life, thinking; "Yeah, I'm happy right now". Besides, I'm off medication these days so... An answer from Robbie seldom comes without a punchline, especially when the need to adress himself in 3rd person arises.

 

To split oneself into two personalities creates a necessary symbiosis for him. He insists that Robert the private person is the exact opposite to Robbie the extrovert entertainer he is on stage.Some seem to have trouble separating the two persons. But I can't come down to the hotel breakfast buffet in the morning chanting "Hello everybody! Oatmeal today? Repeat after me! OAT-MEAL! OAT-MEAL! OAT-MEAL! Then I'm not that guy, but I need to have the ability to become that man too, on stage, where I as a popstar am obliged to enertain.

 

Robbie has been a popstar since the mid nineties. Posters of Take That were on the wall of every other teenage girl across Europe, Norway included. But with fame came the ****ging off. Noel Gallagher out of Oasis named Robbie "the fat dancer from Take That". Harsh as it sounds, that was not far from the truth. In 1995 Robbie disappeared from Take That into a haze of alcohol and drugs. He has since spent a lot of effort ****ging his ex-boyband colleauges, which ironically has a comeback at the same time as Robbie releases his new album this autumn.

 

Though, today Robbie is the one who's one of Europes biggest popstars. I've met them, and I've said I'm sorry. I am glad to have been a part of Take That. After all, we sang some nice songs and got laid by some nice ladies. other than this, he referrs to his song "the 90's" on his new album, Rudebox. This is a very sincere tale of his time in Take That. For me it feels like we're still in the 90'es . It is 2006, but there haven't been a big enough time gap to notice a difference. But it has changed you as a person? Sure, I've changed 5 times today alone. But it's a slow process, know what I mean? You don't notice that you're fat until you are fat... Robbie says and expects a mandatory laughter. We laugh. I mean, 90's popstar Robbie Williams isn't gone. He's still here. You talk about George Michael as the 80's grand popstar, something I find both unfair and untrue. He's still here! Just like Robbie Williams the popstar. Hey! I've managed to cross over to a new decade!!

 

Another sincere song on the new album is called "Good Doctor". Here Robbie plays with his own past as a drug addict. Or presence. Because Robbie's still on drugs. Prescribed drugs, among other things against anxiety, sleep deprevation. But does he himself have a good doctor?Yeah, but that depends on what you mean by a "good doctor". I have some who gives me medicines, and I have some that doesn't. I don't know which is better, it depends on who I am that day. Most doctors don't want to prescribe pills, but they still do all the time. You can have pills to cure just about anything, being too fat, too lazy, too tired, too skinny, to get up and to get down. The only thing I do know is that there's absolutely no short cut by taking drugs, they just sweetens reality. What you take to get up, will eventually brutally make you go down again.

 

Is the pressure too high? There are many admitted into rehab these days...?Sure, you have Tom (Chaplin, from Keane) in there, Pete Doherty, Justin from The Darkness, all singers and all front figures. Hang on a minute, THOSE groups need new frontmen... ME!!

Robbie laughs. And goes on;It becomes your make-up, it's just how some are built. I know what it's like to do drugs, and the entire scenery is frightening. To do drugs just looks stupid. It IS stupid. Just like when you're standing at the bottom of a hill, watching a truck driving straight towards you; you KNOW it's f***ing stupid to not move away. I wish alcohol didn't exist. I wish drugs didn't exist. And pretty soon I suppose I'll wish coffee didn't exist. He raises his cup of coffee, and lights a new cigarette.

 

I dont know, man. God bless all teenagers growing up today having all this yet to happen. What we do to yourselves and what we do to those around us is f***ing awful. In my case - especially what I did to myself. I was such a f***ing idiot!

 

Do you do drugs today?I try to twist any kind of sobriety I'm in. But I came to a point when I needed to get back in touch with the understanding of who I am. I've been sober now for 6 years, have still not had a drink, but you go lazy. Emotionally lazy. Tired by the sobriety, exhausted from your own spirituality. So you begin to pay soccer again, and write songs. Forget everything, and opens the gates to the past. Pretty soon you're a wreck again.

Robbie glances fascinated at the moving vortex of smoke from his fingers. I'm walking a thin, thin line. On one side I'm the guy who gets up every morning, gets to work in time and do the job very well. On the other side of that line you've got this guy who just wants to be selfdestructive, get ****ed up, and lose himself.

 

So you've still got a dark side?

Yeah. It can be very dark. His answer is so heavy that VG helg have to use a Classic Star Wars line to get his smile out again.

May the force be with youThanks, man. With you too!

 

 

 

Interview taken from the paper version of VG helg Saturday 21st October 2006. Link to the website here (This interview is not available on the internet)

 

From purerobbie ^_^

 

That was hard to read without quote marks...hard to tell what Robbie said.

 

Anyway, good interview.

Robbie's Mum gives new album thumbs up

 

Richard Ault and Laura Naylor

23 October, 2006

 

Robbie Williams's new album has been given the thumbs up by his harshest critic - his Mum.

 

Just like millions of adoring fans, Robbie's mum Jan eagerly waited to her son's latest album this weekend.

 

Jan receives copies of Robbie's albums before their official release. She had previously heard rough demo versions of the songs on her son's ninth album - but wants to hear the polished version before she passes comment on Rudebox itself.

 

She said: "I did see some rough stuff from the beginning of things and there were a lot of references to Stoke-on-Trent in them.

 

"He's very excited about it and I know he has really enjoyed doing it. I like the album and I think it's something that's going to grow on people.

 

"It's something that he has wanted to explore and he's very happy with it and I think it's a good album - you may say I'm biased but I'm his worst critic."

 

Robbie, aged 32, worked with fellow Stoke-on-Trent musicians Kelvin Andrews and Danny Spencer on the album, who perform together as renowned dance act Soul Mekanik. - now a renowned dance act but who had a huge hit with a reworking of the Beatles's classic Strawberry Fields, as Candy Flip.

 

He enjoyed working with his ST5 collaborators so much that he has shown off his Potteries roots in Rudebox more than on any of his previous albums.

 

Writing on his website about the title track of his album and first single, Rudebox, Robbie says: "Danny and Kelvin sent me the basic drum beat and it just became a floor-shaker, with lyrics straight out of Stoke-on-Trent.

 

"My head's been in some strange places and taken some strange exit turns since I was 15. When we get in the studio we gel and we know where we are going; we get excited when it's right. I think the synchronicity of where we come from and how we are as people adds its own certain chemistry when we get in the studio."

 

Signal 1's Andy Goulding has high expectations of the new album.

 

He said: "There won't be the usual ballads and soft rock or pop - it's going to be a little bit experimental."

From http://www.thesun.co.uk

 

Robbie shoots from the nip

 

October 25, 2006

 

ROBBIE WILLIAMS had a Wild West celebration as his new album went to No1 in the midweek charts.

 

Rob rode into Mexico City on his Close Encounters tour and Rude-ly flashed his bare nipple to the crowd.

 

His CD Rudebox sold more than 55,000 copies on Monday, the first day of release.

 

And he now looks sure to land a massive No1 on Sunday.

 

MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE are trailing at No2 with 34,000 sales of their album The Black Parade.

 

Robbie will be hugely boosted by Rudebox’s bumper sales after its alternative style suffered mixed reviews.

 

But despite the solo glory, it seems he has not totally turned his back on TAKE THAT.

 

GARY BARLOW has now insisted Robbie WILL get back on stage with his old muckers.

 

Talking about the night Robbie was due to join the band on their comeback tour, Gary told Attitude magazine: “If he’d shown up with us that night, I’d probably have been the most happy.

 

“But it’s coming, that day, when we all get on stage together as a five-piece — even if just to wave at the crowd.

 

“It’s one of those inevitable things to me, that one day we’ll all be publicly together again for a moment — one day soon.â€

 

Gary added: “We met Robbie halfway through our tour and, because we know him really well, he’d say something one night and the next day it would change.

 

“But when he agreed to record the hologram projection of Could It Be Magic for us, I was more than happy. It was really sweet of him.â€

 

Aaaaww, we all love each other again. :rolleyes:

No honestly, it's kinda nice, Gary I mean. And obviously its good to see that Vicky acknowledges that the first sales figures for the album are a success - unlike showbiz columnists from a certain other tabloid... I'm not even going to read the article by you-know-who (just heard it existed), they are a complete joke anway

:angry:

From http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk

 

Take that back, Robbie

Dianne Bourne

 

 

EX-Take That boss Nigel Martin-Smith says he will take pop megastar Robbie Williams to court to get an apology over 'slurs to his character'.

 

Nigel is angry at comments made by Robbie - questioning his integrity as manager of the former boyband - that the solo star had planned to use in a song on his new album Rudebox, released on Monday.

 

Nigel last week won an apology and damages from The Sun newspaper after it printed lyrics from the track, The Nineties, and further comments from Robbie.

 

 

Robbie has said in interviews that the song confronted issues he's had with Nigel since quitting the band in 1995.

 

But though the album being snapped up by Robbie fans this week still contains the song, there are now no lyrics about Nigel.

 

Now, Manchester-based music mogul Nigel says he will continue legal action until he gets an apology from Robbie himself.

 

He tells me: "I'm still suing Robbie and his record label EMI.

 

"Things are moving in the right direction because there are no references to me on the album.

 

Grace

 

"I'm really miffed with Robbie. He must know he's done wrong by not including the lyrics on the album. I'm shocked but not at all surprised that Robbie hasn't had the good grace to apologise and stop this once and for all.

 

"He's the only person who can finally put this to bed. I'm going to have to take him to court if he won't formally withdraw the allegations.

 

"If I don't go to court and make him apologise he could keep on making these claims. I'm just very sad that after all this time he still has to have a go at me."

 

Robbie's record company EMI and his PR agents said yesterday: "We do not comment on legal issues."

 

Nigel masterminded Take That's ride to the top in the 1990s, and oversaw the reunion of Gary Barlow, Mark Owen, Jason Orange and Howard Donald last year for the making of the documentary which ultimately led to their comeback as a band.

 

But he parted company with the lads when they decided to go back on tour.

 

There's sure to be yet more insights into the Take That past, though. I hear Nigel is planning a tell-all book about the band in the not-too-distant future.

 

 

( There was a photo of NMS but I thought it best not to post it so near to dinner time)

Guess they are obviously still pissed he gave that exclusive interview to the Sun and not them! :lol:

 

 

From http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am

 

25 October 2006

ROBBIE FAILS IN SALES

Eva Simpson & Caroline Hedley

ROBBIE Williams is back - but with more of a whimper than a bang.

 

Despite heading to the top of the charts with new album Rudebox, sales aren't as good as he hoped.

 

His last album, Intensive Care, sold 373,832 copies but this time he'll be lucky to sell more than 200,000. An insider said: "Reviews have been mixed, some pretty damning. Although it's still a decent show for an established artist, it's a bit disappointing.

 

"Robbie won't be pleased as he regards it as his best ever album." The sales figures come after his single Rudebox limped to No.4 in the singles chart. What was that you said about entertaining us, Robbie?...

 

:lol: You gotta laugh. They are so pathetic now. :lol:

erm...I just read in the other article that it looks like it will be No.1?? How is that a bad showing???

 

:angry:

I hear Nigel is planning a tell-all book about the band in the not-too-distant future.

 

Of course he is!!

 

I hope Robbie poops in a bag and sends it to NMS. Eventhough he doesn't deserve the strength it would take for Robbie to take a c**p.

 

:angry:

And he could label it 'Not cow $h!t, dog $h!t, reeeeeeaaaaal $h!t!' :P

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