Lola is such a great song. I love The Kinks. :wub:

Robbie Williams Got a Brand New Bag

Posted Aug 16th 2007 7:59PM by TMZ Staff

http://www.tmz.com/2007/08/16/robbie-willi...-brand-new-bag/

 

Elderly nursing home residents have got nothing on British pop star Robbie Williams. Bingo!

 

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The 33-year-old rehabbed crooner hit up Hamburger Mary's in West Hollywood, Calif. on Wednesday to play a little charity celebrity bingo. B-14! Williams did so well he ended up winning the game -- and a Diane Merrick leopard print handbag. Take That! Also in attendance were glamazon Dita von Teese and the evening's host, "Superbad" star Erica Vittina Phillips (right).

 

Proceeds from the event will help fight breast cancer, while Robbie's new accessory will help him look absolutely stunning!

 

(thanks to TMZ and Fans Supreme)

That Radio 1 thing sounds amazing!!! :yahoo:

Haven't bought an album in ages. Might just buy that one

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/a72417/r...-favourite.html

 

Robbie was Take That manager's favourite

Saturday, August 18 2007, 12:03 BST

 

By Daniel Kilkelly

 

 

Former Take That manager Nigel Martin-Smith :arrr: has revealed that Robbie Williams was his favourite member of the band.

 

Speaking on ITV1 show The Truth About Boybands, Nigel :arrr: admitted that he regrets not showing Robbie how much he appreciated the work that he put into the group.

 

"Robbie was my favourite because Robbie just wanted to perform," he explained. "If Robbie had ever come to me and said, 'Nigel, :arrr: help.' Or, 'I'm having a problem with something,' I would have done it.

 

"If I had to do it all again, I'd do everything exactly the same, because I think it was all perfect. The only thing, personally, that I would do is spend a bit more time telling them how much I love them - which is probably what I didn't do, certainly in Robbie's case. I think that's where I went wrong."

 

Robbie fell out with Nigel :arrr: before leaving Take That in 1995. In his 2004 autobiography Feel, the singer accused Martin-Smith :arrr: of destroying his confidence during his time in the band. Last year, he was forced to remove insulting lyrics about Nigel :arrr: from his Rudebox album.

 

The Truth About Boybands airs on ITV1 at 9.40pm tonight.

 

 

:wacko: :wacko: :wacko: :arrr:

 

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/ent...hole_truth.html

 

 

That's the whole truth

Ian Wylie

18/ 8/2007

 

FORMER Take That manager Nigel Martin-Smith isn't impressed by a certain pop talent search back on TV tonight.

 

"When you see shows like The X Factor, it's all about, can you sing a couple of bars in tune? What's that got to do with finding the next big thing?

 

"Most people can sing to some degree," he says. "And there's these buttons that they have in studios now that say, 'Autotune.' So the most important thing is - have they got star quality? Ironically, have they got the X Factor? And all of Take That did."

 

Narrated by former Spice Girl Emma Bunton, The Truth About Boybands (ITV1, tonight, 9.40pm) is a cut above what you might expect.

 

Back in the Manchester of 1990, Nigel watched New Kids On The Block on a Saturday morning TV show and decided to form his own boyband.

 

"I think I only met up with about 24 lads, and of those 24 I shortlisted six, and of those six I shortlisted five - Howard, Gary, Mark, Jason and Robbie.

 

"Gary was the only one who could sing at the time. Robbie was OK, but he was a bit theatrical.

 

"The first fan base was teenage girls and gay men - it was spandex, leather, metal. It was dodgy 80s disco gear. But it worked."

 

Take That were the good guys. London's East 17 the bad. Soon the press were whipping up a north v south battle.

 

"The East 17 fans were scary, because they were a bit like East 17 - rough and ugly," adds Nigel.

 

Pop manager Louis Walsh created an Irish version of Take That and called them Boyzone. "If you've got two or three great singers, the others just have to be able to sing the harmonies and look good," he explains. "We basically copied Take That."

 

Lucky

 

Shane Lynch was among those Louis picked for the band. "As far as singing was concerned, if I did it in the shower, you were lucky," reveals Shane. "If you had a slight vocal talent, fair enough, you had a little bit of an edge.

 

"Generally speaking, it was how you looked and I guess I had the right look and I got in."

 

The two-part series documents the rise of Manchester-based Take That, the departure of a troubled Robbie Williams, the final decision to split and their recent triumphant return to the delight of millions of nostalgic fans.

 

Nigel recalls: "Robbie was my favourite because Robbie just wanted to perform. If Robbie had ever come to me and said, `Nigel, help.' Or, `I'm having a problem with something,' I would have done it.

 

"If I had to do it all again, I'd do everything exactly the same, because I think it was all perfect. The only thing, personally, that I would do is spend a bit more time telling them how much I love them - which is probably what I didn't do, certainly in Robbie's case. I think that's where I went wrong."

 

Next week's second programme begins with the 1996 split of Take That and the rush to try to fill the gap left behind.

 

It also charts what happened when boybands were away from the cameras - the drink, drugs and sex. "Behind closed doors when they go to hotels at night, they get drunk, they take drugs, they let in groupies," says Louis.

 

It all got too much for some, including Boyzone's Shane. "I'd wake up, get on the soup, have a few bevvies throughout the day, end up going to the TVs gargled up - not drunk, but trying to enlighten the day, because it was so monotonous.

 

"Every day it was an interview, every day it was TV, talking the same stuff. I spoke for the last few weeks about the same record, the same tour. I was trying to make it exciting again."

 

Louis concludes: "People looking for credibility in boybands, that worries me. They are what they are. They're selling sex to girls. Credibility? I don't think it's credible."

 

Top producer Pete Waterman also yearns for a sense of perspective. "Boybands, did they change my life? Nah. When I get to the Pearly Gates, and the Angel Gabriel asks me to show my record collection, there's certainly not going to be a Take That album in it."

 

Oh dear, I wonder why the spawn of Satan has decided to be all nice about Robbie now. He's up to something. :rolleyes:

 

I'll watch the show I supose, although as usual it will probebly make Rob look bad like most of these shows do. I'm more looking forward to the big return of the X Factor tonight. Nothing beates the auditions :lol:

He must be up to something that he's sucking up to Rob and professing his love for him :rolleyes: that love certainly wasn't there at the TT documentary a few years back.

 

How sad for a man who had all that success is now reduced to going on tacky tv shows and talking about his past :D He must be extremely bitter.

I know, he truely is pathetic :D

 

In the TV Mag with todays Sun, there is a small review of tonights TV show, and it has him saying that none of them could sing well, and how they had to use auto-tune. Deary me, I don't understand that since they hardly hit massivly high notes and seemed to sing live fine. :rolleyes:

Here Nigel... here´s a bacardicola for you! I think you know how we want you to end up.... :angry: :angry: :angry: :puke2: :hic:

Here Nigel... here´s a bacardicola for you! I think you know how we want you to end up.... :angry: :angry: :angry: :puke2: :hic:

 

That's gold :lol: :lol: :lol:

:teresa:

ROBBIE'S ROOTS GOT LEFT BEHIND

The Sentinal

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09:40 - 20 August 2007

 

There was some surprising news for Robbie Williams on The Truth About Boy Bands, ITV1's look back on the history of the genre.Robbie has had some notable run-ins with Nigel Martin-Smith, Take That's former manager, some of which have even troubled the courts.

 

Most recent was an argument over a track, The 1990s, on Williams's last album Rudebox, in which he fantasised about taking out Martin-Smith's eyes with a Stanley knife.

 

But on The Truth About Boy Bands, Martin-Smith insisted that, of all Take That's members: "Robbie was my favourite because Robbie just wanted to perform. If Robbie had ever come to me and said 'Nigel, help I'm having a problem with something', I'd have done it. If I had to do it all again, the only thing I'd do differently is spend a bit more time telling them how much I loved them and all that sort of thing, which is probably what I didn't do. And in Robbie's case that's probably where I went wrong."

 

The programme took us back to Take That's inception.

 

"I'm Gary." "I'm Jason." "I'm Robbie," three of the five told a TV interviewer.

 

"And you're all from Manchester?"

 

"Yes." Hmm, not quite shouting about your North Staffordshire roots at that stage, eh Robbie? Take That, according to how you measure these things, went on to become the most successful British group since The Beatles. But in 1995, Robbie decided he'd had enough.

 

"Robbie was never taken seriously when he was in Take That," said former editor of Smash Hits, Mark Frith, "because it was always seen that he was in the band for the girls and the lifestyle and the crack. We learn that he went through hell," added Frith, injecting a hint of doubt into Williams's version of events.

 

Soon after the split, Williams told a kids' TV show: "I love Mark to bits, but as for the rest I can say I don't really miss them."

 

With Take That massive, and Williams's last album a comparative flop, I wonder if he feels the same way now.

I would expect such a ridiculous article from the tabloids, but I would've thought the Sentinal were a little more above that. I guess journalists just do not understand the word 'research' these days. :rolleyes:

 

The comments posted, are very good though. Someone calle Daz wrote the comments I posted on the Mirrors forum. ^_^

Actually The Sentinel is a tabloid of sorts as its owned by the Daily Mail but you'd think they'd be a bit more kind towards Rob or just do some actual research as journalists and newpapers are supposed to :rolleyes:

 

What was the purpose of that article anyways ?? -_-

What an annoying article. :angry: I feel the red mist forming again. :arrr:

 

 

*** Hold me back, Hold me back :lol: ***

What an annoying article. :angry: I feel the red mist forming again. :arrr:

*** Hold me back, Hold me back :lol: ***

 

:lol:

 

It seems to me, that the Sentinal are usually nice because they have to be, due to the huge amount of money Rob gives to charity among other things in the area. But it appears, with this article that once they see something where they can turn it into making Robbie look bad they to the people of Stoke, they are more than happy to slag him off. :arrr: And how ridiculous for them to make out as if Rob was ashamed of Stoke, he was only something like 16 then, he just thrown into this world of showbiz, and being on TV etc, no doubt Nigal :arrr: told them all the say they were from Manchester to make it sound better. That journalist obviously does'nt like Robbie. -_-

Enjoy A Fumble In The Bushes Robbie?

Splash News Online via TRWS

 

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Wow, Robbie Williams records may have been flopping of recent, but his talent for grabbing hot women doesn’t seem to be faltering. The cleaned up star, who has made a home now in L.A, enjoyed a hike through the Hollywood Hills with a good-looking female friend. Robbie, who was driven to the national park hiking track by the hot toned lady, looked happy as punch when he arrived back at his vehicle after a two-hour hike.

Flopping????????

 

 

God I'm so sick of all this. :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry:

PS whoever that dame is she's far too skinny. -_-