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Thanks Laura.

Still don't understand what does this 'Pray silence my fear she is near' mean exactly.

I've found that 'Pray silence' means 'Attention'. ...why?))

 

No in this context it means the same as "please silence my fear" - it's old English (how it would be spoken many years ago)

so it means don't be scared anymore - she is near.

 

 

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No in this context it means the same as "please silence my fear" - it's old English (how it would be spoken many years ago)

so it means don't be scared anymore - she is near.

 

 

 

It's a true belief that while a person we loved may no longer with us in this life that they are close by us in the spirit world , it's a lovely sentiment that Robbie obviously holds close

Thanks!

And yes, I absolutely agree with that.

 

Still asking you about better explanation of the last sentences.

 

@The next time that we meet

I will bow at her feet

And say wasn't life sweet

Then we'll prepare

To take heaven down there@

 

Here is my understanding (translation) - please fix me if I'm wrong:

The next time when they will meet each other he says that although the (his) life wasn't sweet but the other hand they finally can meet again on heavens.

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Thanks!

And yes, I absolutely agree with that.

 

Still asking you about better explanation of the last sentences.

 

@The next time that we meet

I will bow at her feet

And say wasn't life sweet

Then we'll prepare

To take heaven down there@

 

Here is my understanding (translation) - please fix me if I'm wrong:

The next time when they will meet each other he says that although the (his) life wasn't sweet but the other hand they finally can meet again on heavens.

 

Yes he is saying they will meet again in another life. ^_^

Tess - can you help? I think you can explain it better than me for Alex? ^_^

I understand the sentence "wasn't life sweet" as a statement that life WAS actually sweet.

 

And they want to make it good as well for the people on earth from their position in heaven. Although I have no clue how the want to do it :lol: . Perhaps just with good memories and the people being happy if they think of them.

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Robbie Williams • 'Operation Pillow Fight', The Legendary UNDER THE RADAR Concert • Live in London

 

 

 

 

What an amazing show Chris Naworocktsie put together on You Tube last night , it was a compilation of videos sent in by fans who were lucky enough to have attended the UTR gig in London back in OCT 19' , Chris did an amazing job & produced a seamless concert last night which was fabulous , made me feel like I was actually there . At one stage there were over 200 people online, just amazing response , well done Chris & to everyone who contributed .

 

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Just a great setlist :

 

 

01. H.E.S. (Heavy Entertainment Show)

02. Gospel

03. Ghosts

04. Run It Wild

05. Viva Live On Mars

06. Numb

07. Dirty Rotten

08. The 80's

09. Gold

10. Coffee, Tea and Sympathy

11. Heaven From Here

12. Reverse

13. Jesus In A Camper Van

14. Raver

15. Eyes On A Highway

16. No f***s

17. Do You Mind

18. Greenlight

19. I Just Want People To Like Me

20. California Christmas

21. Into The Silence

He's done an amazing job with it - glad RW saw his hard work :cheer:

 

 

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Robbie Williams live app 20 04 2021

 

Thanks to monicanesci

 

 

 

Robbie Williams • 'Operation Pillow Fight', The Legendary UNDER THE RADAR Concert • Live in London

What an amazing show Chris Naworocktsie put together on You Tube last night , it was a compilation of videos sent in by fans who were lucky enough to have attended the UTR gig in London back in OCT 19' , Chris did an amazing job & produced a seamless concert last night which was fabulous , made me feel like I was actually there . At one stage there were over 200 people online, just amazing response , well done Chris & to everyone who contributed .

 

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Just a great setlist :

01. H.E.S. (Heavy Entertainment Show)

02. Gospel

03. Ghosts

04. Run It Wild

05. Viva Live On Mars

06. Numb

07. Dirty Rotten

08. The 80's

09. Gold

10. Coffee, Tea and Sympathy

11. Heaven From Here

12. Reverse

13. Jesus In A Camper Van

14. Raver

15. Eyes On A Highway

16. No f***s

17. Do You Mind

18. Greenlight

19. I Just Want People To Like Me

20. California Christmas

21. Into The Silence

 

A big thank you for posting this. I knew about the project and was afraid that I would miss it when it is finally ready. I was one of the lucky people to have been there.

 

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A big thank you for posting this. I knew about the project and was afraid that I would miss it when it is finally ready. I was one of the lucky people to have been there.

 

 

I was not there Lundi so was delighted to find this online, Chris did a fab job , it's a really good setlist ...

I was not there Lundi so was delighted to find this online, Chris did a fab job , it's a really good setlist ...

 

and hopefully they'll be another in the future when we're able to B-)

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and hopefully they'll be another in the future when we're able to B-)

 

 

He does talk about doing more in the video, mention Stock-on-Trent :)

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"Millennium" is a song recorded by English singer Robbie Williams for his second studio album I've Been Expecting You (1998). In September 1998, it was released as the first track from the album and became Williams' first single to top the UK Singles Chart. The song also received extensive airplay in the United States and Canada, where it was the lead single from Williams' 1999 compilation album, The Ego Has Landed.

 

The song borrows heavily from the musical arrangement of John Barry's "You Only Live Twice", the title track of the 1967 James Bond film, said to be one of Williams' favourite James Bond movies.[1] However, it is a re-recording in a slightly different key instead of a direct sample for reasons of cost

 

Recording and composing

The song that would become "Millennium" started being written in 1997. Williams and producer Guy Chambers got along at Blah Street Studios in Hampshire, where Williams expressed the idea to do something based on James Bond. From that start, Chambers decided that he would sample "You Only Live Twice" by Nancy Sinatra, which featuring what he considered an "iconic intro" that "grabs you straight away", and that Williams wanted the addition of a hip-hop beat, which was achieved by speeding up the sample. Chambers then created a simple bassline for the verses When Williams' lyrics were mostly done, Chambers felt it lacked "an obvious title for the track", and suggested "Millennium" for being "both strong and topical", because as Chambers said in a retrospective review, "There was a lot of talk about the millennium back then, it’s a bit like the ‘Brexit’ word now". Then Chambers asked for a "football chant", which only had a melody before Williams came up with "come and have a go if you think you're hard enough'." The whole writing process took about four hours, and Chambers described "Millennium" as "the simplest song Robbie and I have ever written - only two chords. And it's written in D flat major, which is very unusual in pop music."[2][3]

 

Once co-producer Steve Power heard the demo, which already had a sample of they found potential for a single given it showed a different sound from Williams' debut album Life thru a Lens. As Power explained: "It had the more programming-based feel that we wanted to introduce on the second album in order to get away from the guitar-based feel of the first album, and it already had the chorus hook, the Bond theme sample, on the demo version, which I remember mixing before last Christmas."[2]

 

Trident Studios in London was used for the majority of the recordings, including drums, bass and samples for the backing track, and the backing vocals, which included three female session singers and male vocals by Williams' guitarist Gary Nuttall. Williams' vocals were done at Jacobs Studios in Surrey.[2]

 

Williams suggested using a sample only accompanied by a hip-hop beat. Guy Chambers found a beat by speeding the sample up. The record label, Chrysalis Records, discovered that a new recording would cost only one tenth of the licensing fee that would be required to sample "You Only Live Twice", so they asked for a new string section that still acted as a recognisable pastiche of the song. Nick Ingman arranged the orchestra, which according to Power "was in the wrong key for 'Millennium', although we did want it to sound like the original sample in the choruses and we did refer to John Barry's original score for that", and conducted a 26-piece string section, plus harp and four French horns, at Angel Recording Studios in Islington to the programmed backing track, with a guide vocal over the top.[2]

 

Power said the song used most of the 48 tracks offered by the multitrack tape: "We had about six tracks of backing vocals, and nine tracks for the strings. Then there were the programmed tracks; and when you get into programming, you'll layer about four kick drums to tape! For speed, and to keep the creative flow going, we put them all down to separate tracks rather than spend time deciding which one we wanted loudest when recording. So we had a lot of independent outs from the programmed backing track onto separate multitrack channels, like the programmed percussion and sampled noises. Then there were the unused scratching tracks, and the live percussion - all in all, I think we filled maybe 36 or 38 tracks in total."[2]

 

Music video

The tongue-in-cheek video for "Millennium", directed by Vaughan Arnell, features Williams parodying James Bond, complete with dinner jacket and references to Bond films like Thunderball and From Russia with Love.[4] The video was filmed at Pinewood Studios, home to most Bond productions. During the video, Williams travels in an aeroplane and comically fails to fly a futuristic jet pack. He is also seen flirting with girls in an over-the-top manner and caricaturing the facial expressions of Sean Connery. He is seen in a boat, clearly a studio model, against an obviously projected background characteristic of 1960s Bond films. During the end of the video, Williams drives away in an economy car, a fittingly chosen Bond Bug, instead of 007's Aston Martin DB5, which later drives past him while he is having car trouble.[5] Former model Lorraine Pascale appears in the video as a 'Bond Girl'.[6]

 

At the 1999 Brit Awards, "Millennium" won the award for British Video of the Year.

 

Chart performance

The song became Williams' first number-one single in the United Kingdom, shipping over 400,000 copies and being certified Gold by the BPI. The song also became an international success; it managed to break into the Top 40 around the world. It also became Williams' first song to chart inside the US Billboard Hot 100 when it was released in 1999. While neither "Millennium" nor "Angels" (the song chosen as his second single in the United States) charted in the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100, it did chart at number 20 on the Mainstream Top 40 chart.

 

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Love this song , hard to believe it's 11 years since this gig :o

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It’s great whats been done with the fan footage of the UTR gig, it was such a great night. I’ll definitely rewatch that
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It’s great whats been done with the fan footage of the UTR gig, it was such a great night. I’ll definitely rewatch that

 

 

I agree , it was brilliantly done . The setlist was really great , loved the whole thing & will listen to it again

It's mad to think it was 2009 when he came back :o

 

Where has that time gone?

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