http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/606/A34576257

 

 

Max factor

 

On the celebrity watch, Hotel Babylon’s Max Beesley was spotted emerging from the Augusta shop laden with souvenirs.

 

The actor is here as a guest of New Zealand’s Michael Campbell. No one has spotted Robbie Williams who was reputed to be here as a guest of the former US Open Champion.

 

 

:blink: :blink: :blink: :blink:

 

 

 

 

So is Oor Boy at the Masters Golf then? If Max is there...... :unsure: 'No-one has spotted Robbie Williams'. With that beard I'm not surprised. :rolleyes:

 

 

8 weeks on the Hot Dance Club Play rising this week from #18 to #16 :)

 

 

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Source: billboard.com

http://www.nme.com/news/tabloid-hell/35564

Robbie Williams booked 'fore' golfer's wedding – Tabloid Hell

Singer to make live comeback at Colin Montgomerie's nuptials

 

Apr 1, 2008

Robbie Williams will make his live comeback at golfer Colin Montgomerie's wedding, according to the Daily Mirror.

 

Four hundred guests, including Prince Andrew and Hugh Grant, will be at the special show, which will be held on the banks of Loch Lomond on April 19.

 

DJ Chris Evans will compere the gig.

 

Montgomerie told the newspaper: "I'm not allowed to say anything. This will be an extraordinary event."

 

Monty and Robbie have been friends since meeting at a celebrity golf tournament in 2005.

:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

 

(Shall I go set up camp outside the Hotel? :unsure: )

 

off topic!love your signature jupiter!

 

Like the sound from Mams Taylor....some very nice tracks on his myspace....think this upcoming album could be quite good......nice to see that someone else exists in the rap world besides Timbaland who is totally one dimensional & all his stuff sounds the bloody same.........

 

http://www.boombatt.com/html/news.php

 

 

http://lovesoul.tv/2008/04/09/exclusive-in...s-taylor-in-la/

 

http://www.myspace.com/mamstaylor

Edited April 16, 200817 yr by Scorpio

Lovelight 9 weeks on the Hot Dance Club Play rising this week from #16 to #11 http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b319/Farolly/good_mini1.gif

 

http://img252.imageshack.us/img252/2295/listaze1.jpg

 

 

Source: billboard.com

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ROBBIE: 'ALL I'M INTERESTED IN IS FINDING ALIENS'

Wednesday April 23,2008

By Simon Edge

The Daily Express

 

WHATEVER happened to Robbie Williams?

 

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Robbie Williams has turned his back on pop

 

His former Take That comrades have been enjoying a hugely successful comeback album and tour and the band is set for further exposure with a forthcoming West End musical based on their hits.

 

But these days we hear little of the cheeky rebel who split from the group to launch the biggest-selling solo career that Britain has ever seen.

 

Under his mammoth £80million deal with EMI, Williams was meant to be releasing a new album this autumn. But that has been postponed and one recent rumour – eventually denied by his management – was that he was on strike.

 

Otherwise, Robbie has vanished. He might as well have been abducted by aliens.

 

Actually, that’s not so far from the truth – or at any rate, aliens are part of the story. It emerged this weekend that the 34-year-old singer has developed an obsession with spacecraft from other worlds visiting our skies. Having turned his back on stage shows, he has holed himself up in his Los Angeles mansion to indulge a fixation with UFOs.

 

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Robbie seems happy looking up at the sky

 

This revelation comes courtesy of journalist and broadcaster Jon Ronson who specialises in winning the trust of people with extreme or bizarre beliefs. Having previously investigated the shadowy Bilderberg Group of world leaders and befriended oddballs and outcasts from David Icke to the Ku Klux Klan, he has now given us a glimpse into the weird world of Robbie Williams.

 

The star – who has battled drink, drugs, ballooning weight and depression and once admitted himself to rehab on his birthday because he was washing down prescription pills with 20 cans of Red Bull and 36 double espressos a day – first contacted Ronson three years ago. He wanted the journalist to organise an over night stay in a haunted house for him.

 

That never came off but the two stayed in touch and earlier this year Williams e-mailed out of the blue. He wanted Ronson to accompany him to a UFO conference in Laughlin, Nevada, to hear testimony about being abducted by aliens.

 

“At first I wonder if he’s gone a bit crazy but I don’t think he has,” says Ronson in a recording of their trip, to be aired on BBC Radio 4 next month. “He’s just doing what lots of people do, including me – spending a lot of time on paranormal websites.”

 

Scarcely recognisable behind a bushy beard that makes him look more like a lumberjack or a Montana survivalist than a sex symbol rock star, and admitting that his current fixation has made him question his own sanity, Williams nowadays spends hours every day reading internet sites on alien conspiracy theories and watching DVDs with such titles as UFO Space Anomalies and Secret Space: What Is Nasa Hiding?

 

Referring to predictions that the world is going to end in four years time as if they are a matter of common consent – “You know, with the run-up to 2012, everyone going mental about that, about Armageddon and all that business,” he says casually – he is immersed in paranormal folklore as part of a respite from his normal routine.

 

“I’ve been working since I was 16. I’ve put out 10 albums in 10 years and it takes its toll. I’m just having a break. I’m classic ‘don’t show me any debunking stuff’, because I want to believe.”

 

He says he thinks alien spacecraft are always in our skies and that we only see them when their protective shields fall off.

 

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STAR GAZER: Robbie

 

He and Ronson set out by private plane for Nevada, accompanied by Robbie’s girlfriend, actress Ayda Field, and a record producer friend called Brandon. At the conference, where he arrives incognito, Robbie quizzes a scientist who specialises in examining evidence of alien visits, asking: “Do you worry that the aliens might want their stuff back? Do you get scared they may want to come and get their transmitters back?”

 

He also befriends Ann Andrews from Lincolnshire, a speaker at the conference who has written a series of books about her son Jason, who believes he was contacted by aliens telling him he had been put on Earth to be a psychic sage.

 

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With Take That back in 1993

 

When Brandon asks Andrews if she has undergone any psychiatric examination, Williams admits: “Question ing someone’s sanity when this is happening to them is perfectly acceptable. I question my own a lot.”

 

But he sees no reason to doubt the accounts. “With all of this stuff, whatever Ann Andrews has got to say, it’s kind of, ‘Well, if you’re saying it, I’ve no reason to not believe you up until there’s evidence I shouldn’t’. For me it’s, ‘Why would you lie?’”

 

Robbie also sympathises with her pred icament in deciding whether to believe her son’s stories. “It’s either believe everything the boy is saying or remain steadfast to earthly beliefs and have a black sheep in the family. For her own sanity she has had to believe it. It’s like your son turning around to you at 21 and going, ‘I’m a gay’. For me right now, everything that she has said is true,” he says.

 

When Robbie speaks to Andrews, he tells her that he sympathises with her son’s plight in being ostracised by his local community. The bonding experience leaves him with tears in his eyes.

 

“Tell him to drop me a line if he wants. It must have been a terrible time for you and an awful time for him. It’s just so sad to hear it happens. It’s happened to me. I think joining Take That was like leaving on a spaceship and coming back and all your friends going: ‘He’s weird now.’”

 

Williams comes away from the conference with 15 new UFO DVDs, having promised to consider a request to become its official celebrity spokes man. “I’m absolutely loving it, really loving it. Fabulous,” he tells the organisers.

 

Ever since his dramatic departure from Take That in 1995, the singer has always worn his personal problems on his sleeve. In interviews he has bared all about the frustrations of devoting his adolescence to the gruelling regime of Take That and the loneliness of stardom. He seems to personify the adage that fame and fortune do not necessarily bring happiness.

 

But it emerges that his current compulsion to read about UFOs derives from long before he was plucked from obscurity in Stoke-on-Trent for boyband superstardom.

 

“Mum was a tarot card reader,” he tells Ronson.

 

“In the shelf just outside her room there would be the books about the world’s mysteries and elves, demons and witchcraft. She’d have people round to read the tarot cards and read their palms. We’d talk about spirits, we’d talk about ghosts, we’d talk about the other side.

 

"And I was that scared that I never talked to my mum about it and just lived in fear of all this kind of stuff. I want to find out why things that go bump in the night make me scared.”

 

His interest resumed when he gave up reading newspapers, because stories about himself upset him too much. He reveals that he once inv ited TV psychic Derek Acorah to his home for a reading but was disgusted when a story subsequently appeared under the headline I Helped Robbie Williams Talk To His Dead Gran. He has not spoken to Acorah since and says he is nervous about exploring his interest in unexplained phenomena.

 

“Every time I put my foot in the water as regards to this kind of stuff, or paranormal stuff, I meet charlatans. You come across people that make you go: ‘Oh no, you’re supposed to be the expert but you’re obviously mental. And none of it is true.’ I’ve been really disappointed,” he says, admitting that this has shaken his wider faith. “This might happen with UFOs, too, and then I might be able to get on with my life.”

 

Ronson has mixed feelings about the singer’s latest fixation. “When he used to look himself up, all the lies that were written about him would make him miserable so I think it’s healthy that he doesn’t look himself up any more,” he says.

 

“But the world he is now obsessed with has its many liars, too.”

 

However, he does find one positive aspect about Williams’s obsession. “I leave him standing on his balcony with Ayda and he does seem happy, gazing up at the sky, even if there’s nothing paranormal up there,” he said. In the tortured, discontented world of Robbie Williams, one should be thankful for small mercies.

 

** Robbie Williams And Jon Ronson Journey To The Other Side, Radio 4, May 6, 6.30pm.

http://www.express.co.uk/features/view/422...finding-aliens-

with thanks via TRWS

Lovelight had climbed to #8 in the US Dance Chart :o Surely his highest chart position to date? Considering it is one of the five main US charts, it is pretty bloody impressive to get a top 10 hit for a non-promoted song by an artist who is supposinly unknown there. Well done Rob :D

 

On another note, the Sunday Times Rich List is out this week (I seriously cannot believe how fast this past year went, it only seems like a few months ago since the last one). Will be interesting to see if they add the £30m + he got for the tour, which they did'nt mention last time. It will prove if they are really credible or not. I have a feeling they havn't though as he is in none of the news articles, and going up by £32m is a big deal.

 

 

@Mr. Macphisto :)

 

 

Lovelight 10 weeks on the Hot Dance Club Play rising this week from #11 to # 8 http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y279/tc73/Smilies/action-smiley-033.gif http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y279/tc73/Smilies/action-smiley-033.gif http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y279/tc73/Smilies/action-smiley-033.gif

 

 

 

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Source: billboard.com

What is the Dance Chart based on? Sales? Airplay? Danceplay? All 3? :wacko: :unsure:

What is the Dance Chart based on? Sales? Airplay? Danceplay? All 3? :wacko: :unsure:

 

It's based on danceplay from the playlists of nightclub DJs

And the rich list is already out, Robbie's at 28 with 105 mil:

 

Britain's top 50 music millionaires

 

Friday, 25 April 2008

 

 

As part of its annual Sunday Times Rich List, The Sunday Times has produced a top 50 chart of Britain's wealthiest music millionaires (in addition to the Young Music Millionaire's list) which includes performers, producers and record company owners.

 

 

The list sees Sir Paul McCartney valued at £500m despite the fact that reports from his recent divorce hearing said he was worth £400m.

 

Guy Hands, who bought EMI for £2.4bn, is the top new entry in the list with £250m and seventh place.

 

Chris Blackwell, the London-born founder of Island Records, is another new entry with £100m.

 

 

1 Clive Calder £1,300m

 

2 Lord Lloyd-Webber £750m

 

3 Sir Paul McCartney £500m

 

4= Simon Fuller £450m

 

4= Sir Cameron Mackintosh £450m

 

6 Madonna and Guy Ritchie £300m

 

7 Guy and Julia Hands £250m

 

8 Sir Elton John £235m

 

9 Sir Mick Jagger £225m

 

10 Robert Stigwood £212m

 

11 Sting £200m

 

12 Keith Richards £190m

 

13 Sir Tom Jones £170m

 

14= Olivia and Dhani Harrison £160m

 

14= Jamie Palumbo £160m

 

16 Sir Tim Rice £155m

 

17= Eric Clapton £140m

 

17= Phil Collins £140m

 

17= Ringo Starr £140m

 

20 David and Victoria Beckham £125m

 

21= Robert Bourne and Sally Green £120m

 

21= David Bowie £120m

 

21= Barry and Robin Gibb £120m

 

21= Rod Stewart £120m

 

25 Simon Cowell £112m

 

26= Roger Ames £110m

 

26= Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne £110m

 

28 Robbie Williams £105m

 

29= Chris Blackwell £100m

 

29=Charlie Watts £100m

 

31= George Michael £95m

 

31= Roger Waters £95m

 

33 David Gilmour £85m

 

34= Moya Doherty and John McGolgan £80m

 

34= Robert Plant £80m

 

36 Engelbert Humperdinck £79m

 

37= Brian May £75m

 

37= Jimmy Page £75m

 

39= Mark Knopfler £70m

 

39= Roger Taylor £70m

 

39= Chris Wright £70m

 

42 John Deacon £65m

 

43 Judy Craymer £58m

 

44= Nick Mason £55m

 

44= Van Morrison £55m

 

46 Sir Cliff Richard £50m

 

47= Noel and Liam Gallagher £45m

 

47= Bernie Taupin £45m

 

47= Prince Rupert Loewenstein £45m

 

50 Mick Hucknall £42m

 

Taken from The Sunday Times Rich List

 

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertai...res-815251.html

 

 

What was he on last year? I can't remember. :unsure:

It's based on danceplay from the playlists of nightclub DJs

 

I wonder if it ever translates into sales then? You'd expect it would.... :unsure:

 

I just googled. The Sunday Times estimated he was worth £95 million last year. So he's gone up another £10 million to £105 million this year they reckon.

 

I wonder where the £30-£50 million from the Close Encounters Tour went? It wasn't added last year either. Has he spent it on hunting aliens? :o

 

 

As a side issue, ain't it a hoot how Posh Spice is included in the Music Industry Rich List? :lol:

I just googled. The Sunday Times estimated he was worth £95 million last year. So he's gone up another £10 million to £105 million this year they reckon.

 

I wonder where the £30-£50 million from the Close Encounters Tour went? It wasn't added last year either. Has he spent it on hunting aliens? :o

As a side issue, ain't it a hoot how Posh Spice is included in the Music Industry Rich List? :lol:

 

Well a significant amount probably went to his management (they probably get around 30%), and then another huge amount to pay his income taxes. I don't know much about the UK tax laws, but it's possible that he pays taxes in the UK and the US.

 

Oh and the inclusion of the Becks is funny: surely it's mostly his money and he has nothing to do with the music industry.

I wonder if it ever translates into sales then? You'd expect it would.... :unsure:

 

They mostly play remixes and not the tracks themselves. so I don't think it's a big boost. However, Lovelight is the most popular track from Rudebox in the US iTunes, but it isn't on any iTunes charts. Anyway, even without big sales Lovelight must be seen as a hot track right now to get significant airplay from DJs.

:)

I just googled. The Sunday Times estimated he was worth £95 million last year. So he's gone up another £10 million to £105 million this year they reckon.

 

I wonder where the £30-£50 million from the Close Encounters Tour went? It wasn't added last year either. Has he spent it on hunting aliens? :o

As a side issue, ain't it a hoot how Posh Spice is included in the Music Industry Rich List? :lol:

 

It went on petrol for the jet & holidays to Egypt.... :P :P :P :P :P :P

They mostly play remixes and not the tracks themselves. so I don't think it's a big boost. However, Lovelight is the most popular track from Rudebox in the US iTunes, but it isn't on any iTunes charts. Anyway, even without big sales Lovelight must be seen as a hot track right now to get significant airplay from DJs.

 

The remix of Lovelight is really good though & I am not at all surprised that it has done very well...it got quite a bit of airplay when it came out first by the dance Dj's on BBC Radio 1 like Pete Tong and Annie Mac...it did way better on the dance charts than the original version from Rudebox...

 

I just googled. The Sunday Times estimated he was worth £95 million last year. So he's gone up another £10 million to £105 million this year they reckon.

 

I wonder where the £30-£50 million from the Close Encounters Tour went? It wasn't added last year either. Has he spent it on hunting aliens? :o

As a side issue, ain't it a hoot how Posh Spice is included in the Music Industry Rich List? :lol:

 

I am glad he went up, but still they are incorrect. Last year they said that despite lower album sales, due to his 06 tour he made £5m. Clearly they just got that number from their imaginations. Considering Rob's gigs make £1m per conert, to even suggest that he only made £5m from 59 dates is ridiculous. Rob was paid £32m for the tour alone, and that was to him personally. The expenses of his managment and band etc, would've all been paid for speratly I am sure. Considering the Sunday Times don't even mention this fact proves they merly invent half their figures. If the £5m for the tour and Rudebox was for last year, then where has this new £10m come from. Are they really suggesting he makes double the amount on a year off work, then he does working his arse off on a 9 month world tour and releasing an 4.5 million selling album? :P

I am glad he went up, but still they are incorrect. Last year they said that despite lower album sales, due to his 06 tour he made £5m. Clearly they just got that number from their imaginations. Considering Rob's gigs make £1m per conert, to even suggest that he only made £5m from 59 dates is ridiculous. Rob was paid £32m for the tour alone, and that was to him personally. The expenses of his managment and band etc, would've all been paid for speratly I am sure. Considering the Sunday Times don't even mention this fact proves they merly invent half their figures. If the £5m for the tour and Rudebox was for last year, then where has this new £10m come from. Are they really suggesting he makes double the amount on a year off work, then he does working his arse off on a 9 month world tour and releasing an 4.5 million selling album? :P

 

The guy that does the research for the Times is only a journalist who picks the information up from newspaper articles,magazines,company accounts etc...( there is a small video of him talking about it in the Times )....does anyone think for one minute that this list published by the Times shows the true wealth of any of these individuals...I doubt it to be honest....most of it is purely guesswork......... ^_^ ..just because it's in the paper does not mean it is true.... :)

Edited April 26, 200817 yr by Scorpio