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@awardinary sent me a message a few days ago about this - BuzzJack presents...The BuzzJack Collection, Chosen by You

http://www.buzzjack.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=275933

 

I sent No Regrets to the list.

I hope you will like my choice and it will be a good adding to the collection of really good songs what other guys pointed before me.

 

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Emma Buntin has recorded a new version of 2 becomes 1 , brings back memories of the lovely duet with Emma & Rob

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ronan Keating (featuring Robbie Williams) - The Big Goodbye - Unofficial Fan Made Video

 

Taken from Ronan's latest album, Twenty Twenty, this poignant song was written by Robbie Williams about the passing of Boyzone's Stephen Gately. The dearly loved and deeply missed 'Steo' passed away on the 10th October 2009 and we made this video to mark the occasion of the 11th anniversary of this date. This song deserves a video and we hope we have done Steo and Ro justice

 

Released on: 2020-07-24

 

Producer, Studio Personnel, Mix Engineer, Recording Engineer, Associated Performer, Bass ( Vocal), Guitar, Programming: Stephen Lipson

Associated Performer, Vocals: Robbie Williams

Associated Performer, Vocals: Ronan Keating

Associated Performer, Drums: Ash Soan

Associated Performer, Background Vocalist: Kirsten Joy

Associated Performer, Guitar: Michael Thompson

Associated Performer, Keyboards: Pete Murray

Studio Personnel, Mastering Engineer: Tim Debney

Composer Lyricist: Robbie Williams

Composer Lyricist: Martin Page

 

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The Big Goodbye is a really good and dramatic song...

 

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Some interesting review of Angels chords and other songs

 

Emma Buntin has recorded a new version of 2 becomes 1 , brings back memories of the lovely duet with Emma & Rob

 

 

This was a beautiful duet :wub:

 

 

So, it's Richard Hawley who could be Robbie co-writer instead of Guy, you know :)

 

 

I like him, especially this song.

 

 

Well that's interesting . There is a connection with Richard Hawley back to when Guy & Robbie split

 

 

The Strange Journey of Richard Hawley: All Saints, Morrissey and Robbie Williams

 

It has all been pretty much plain sailing for Richard Hawley, hasn’t it?

Two Mercury Prize nominations, a string of gorgeous albums, cameo appearances with Arctic Monkeys, Elbow and Soul Savers…a life free of turbulence and incident?

 

If only. That’s what you might think if you just heard the likes of “I Still Want You”, “Heart of Oak” or “Sometimes I Feel” on new album “Hollow Meadows”. Hawley certainly has the lightest of touches with melody, demonstrated by playing these songs – and a handful of others – at an in store appearance at Rough Trade East to promote the new record.

 

But a life free of incident? Perhaps only one packed with so much struggle can deliver such beautiful songs of yearning and reflection.

 

Even in the last few years, when Hawley’s career trajectory has been quite firmly striding forwards, Sod’s Law has been just around the corner, just waiting to stick out his leg and trip Hawley up.

 

In 2012, following the release of “Standing on the Sky’s Edge” Hawley broke his leg and damaged his back. On the subsequent tour Hawley took the stage in a wheelchair, (a la Dave Grohl, only it was *just* a wheelchair rather than a Foo Fighter style “guitar throne”). I saw Hawley shortly afterwards accepting his Mercury Award nomination and he was moving very gingerly, clearly in a good deal of pain.

 

Indeed, Hawley could barely move for four months, and his rehabilitation presented him with the thinking time that inspired songs on the new album, including in particular “Sometimes I Feel”.

 

We can be glad that Hawley has such single-mindedness to strike a solo path. Hawley’s body of work is now formidable, from early albums like “Lowedges” and the feted “Cole’s Corner”, to the 2009 Mojo album of the year “Truelove’s Gutter”, justifying his decision to decline offers to take an easier path along the way.

 

For example, it has been eleven years since Richard Hawley turned down an opportunity to become an instant millionaire.

 

It was 2004 when he took a call from Robbie Williams, who had just split from his songwriting partner Guy Chambers. Williams was at the height of his fame. The biggest pop star in the UK. A year earlier he had sold out three nights at Knebworth, one more than Oasis had managed seven years earlier. In those three nights alone he played to 375,000 people.

 

Hawley meanwhile, had played the 500-capacity Cargo venue in East London. Their circumstances could hardly have been more disparate.

 

Williams had heard Hawley’s three solo albums – and although none of them were exactly platinum sellers, he was a fan. Perhaps Hawley could be the Marr to Williams’ Morrissey?

 

Given the circumstances, Hawley must have been tempted.

 

“I’ve got a wife and three kids” he reflected, “I’d be a millionaire overnight. I talked to my wife and she said, ‘Get writing! Get us out of here!’”

 

But Hawley said no.

 

It wasn’t Hawley’s first opportunity to be somebody’s Jonny Marr. He tried to be Morrissey’s once. Well, you might as well start at the top… Hawley auditioned to be in the band for Morrissey’s first solo album in 1988. “He asked me why I was singing,” remembered Hawley, “I said, ‘Well, I thought you might like some backing vocals.’ Morrissey’s immediate response to the suggestion he might want backing vocals is not recorded, but Hawley didn’t get the nod… Instead, Hawley was hired by Longpigs, a local Sheffield band headed by the son of a labour MP (and, most crucially) step-cousin to Bear Grylls, Crispin Hunt.

 

In April 1996 Longpigs produced one of the best “debut albums with a mundane title” that you can think of. “The Sun Is Often Out” is undeniably a true statement of fact, and the album was a minor indie pop classic containing hit songs including “She Said” and “On & On” both of which hit the top twenty.

 

But after some modest success, the band ended messily and slowly. The follow up album took three years.

 

To fill time Hawley became a session musician. The guitar part in All Saints’ 1997 hit Under The Bridge? That was Hawley.

 

But the band and Hawley in particular had drug-related problems and they split. There was no going back when drummer Dee Boyle attacked the lead singer Crispin Hunt who needed stitches for a cut to his face.

 

Hawley joined Pulp for a while, reuniting with former school friend and Pulp bass player Steve Mackay.

 

Hawley eventually went solo in 2001, after much pestering from Mackay and Jarvis Cocker, we assume in a good way.

 

https://everyrecordtellsastory.com/2015/09/...obbie-williams/

 

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The Graham Norton Show Season 32 Episode 13 New Year's Eve Show (Dec 31, 2024)

 

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Karl Wallinger Remembered: “Music is the greatest thing for me, because it takes me somewhere that it’s safe to be.”

 

It was Guy Chambers, Wallinger said in 2000, who was “the pushy guy who would cue me into the corner pocket” circa Goodbye Jumbo. “I’ve got to thank him for that.”

 

But their relationship soured when, having bowed out on 1997’s Egyptology, World Party’s final major label release, Chambers recorded its Wallinger-penned piano ballad She’s The One with Robbie Williams, using World Party’s rhythm section, without Wallinger’s knowledge. Williams’s near-facsimile reached Number 1 in the UK in November 1999 and subsequently won a Brit Award for Single of The Year.

 

“Thank God they did record it”, says Wallinger today. “It kept me and the family in spaghetti when I was ill and couldn’t work. But at the time it seemed horribly clandestine and then Robbie stole my band and I was like, ‘What are you doing, guys?’ I’m obviously a c**t.”

 

“The only person we took was Chris Sharrock”, argues Chambers in partial mitigation. “So just the drummer. I did try to take Dave Catlin-Birch, but he didn’t want to leave. Rob [Williams] was so obviously heading towards stadiums and Chris saw which way the wind was blowing. You couldn’t blame him – it was better money.”

 

Chambers also says that “Karl’s been a bit tricky with She’s The One.” As its writer, he has exercised his right to block video of Williams performing the song, “and for years he wouldn’t acknowledge how useful [our version] has been for him. Karl’s version is great, of course. It’s the original. But when we recorded it I said to him, ‘This version’s a demo - let’s do it properly.’ Because, like so much of the World Party stuff, it was thrown together in the night. When I did it with Rob we put pop strings on it. If you want to make a hit record, sometimes putting out a demo isn’t the best thing…”

 

Williams’ version of She’s The One would become ubiquitous at weddings and funerals. Meanwhile, Wallinger’s major label career was ending, albeit at his own request. In 1998, frustrated by “a whole different regime that didn’t seem to know anything about music,” he extricated himself from EMI.

 

https://www.mojo4music.com/articles/stories...ger-remembered/

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Is it not real Chester, isn't it?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I don't know but it's really nice ... not a lot of info in the video description

 

I love that people are liking & finding these songs for the first time

 

 

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NO REGRETS

 

 

 

 

 

After seeing Better Man, I’ve been re-listening to a lot of Robbie’s discography (for the first time in years). No Regrets is definitely a highlight. I had totally forgotten about #1 hit ‘Radio’ as well, it’s a lot worse than I remembered :lol:

 

Robbie Williams on why he hates the lyrics to ‘Millennium’: “I could have done better there

 

 

Robbie Williams has admitted that he hates his hit single ‘Millennium’.

 

The song features on his 1998 album ‘I’ve Been Expecting You’ and interpolates the theme from the 1967 James Bond movie You Only Live Twice.

It was also the pop star’s first single to top the UK singles chart. But in an interview with Colin Paterson on BBC Breakfast earlier this week, he heavily criticised the song.

 

Paterson shared: “I interviewed Robbie Williams for @bbcbreakfast about his Golden Globe nominated chimpanzee biopic Better Man, which is spending its second week in the UK Box Office Top 10. He was very funny on his dislike of his own song ‘Millennium’.”

 

Reflecting on the hit single, Williams said: “I just don’t like the lyric in that song. I wrote that crap.”

 

Quoting the lyrics, he continued “‘We’ve got stars directing our fate’, have we? ‘And we’re praying it’s not too late‘, are they? ‘Cause we know we’re falling from grace,’ are we? ‘Millennium’ is just like welded onto the end there. So er you asked me my memories and mine are, ‘I could have done better there’.”

 

Meanwhile, Williams recently said he wants to make a “new Rat Pack album”.

 

The pop star released his big band swing covers collection, ‘Swing When You’re Winning’, in 2001 and followed it up with 2013’s ‘Swings Both Ways’. Both albums went to Number One in the UK.

 

“I would like to write a new Rat Pack album,” he said. “I think I might do it. And whether they join in or not, it’s up to their estates, but we’ll see.”

 

 

 

https://www.nme.com/news/music/robbie-willi...-better-3827943

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