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It was a good interview, nothing really new. Says he has two projects he is excited about..one of obviously with TT, the other I assume is either a new album or the GH. Here is a link to download the interview where Rob also picks 3 tracks he likes, with thanks to TRWS. http://www.mediafire.com/?jl0y3towmmm

Bump - will this even finish? :lol:

I'm in full agreement with you Norma. If it was just a collaboration between Rob and Mark there would be a good chance of it being somewhat interesting, something with a bit of an edge to it. However seeing as reports suggest the songs are being written with Gary only, I am afraid the outcome won't be anything fresh or remotely intriguing, as I can't imagine he would be open to that, or really anything apart from what he is used to... but there is nothing wrong with that....some pop stars are versatile and some are not...besides the less diverse an act is these days the more successful they are. I would like however, for the laugh to hear Gary do some of the more bizzaire material Rob has done over the years..would make for some superb entertainment. Gaz is after all vocally and musically the modern day Cliff Richard with a hint of Jason Donovan thrown in for good measure, and looks wise he is a dead ringer of a slightly less chubby James Cordon..... yep, if this film about Rob's life ever materialises, James Cordon would be the ideal candidate to play Gary. Really though.. if Gary had've had a successful solo career we would'nt have to endure all of this...I don't really get why it never took off...afterall the material was very much the same as expected... the sort of stuff he has a knack for...MOR inoffensive, VERY easily-listening bland supermarket. generic ballady pop ideal for the soundtrack to a nice dinner party of some description.... I could never really understand where it all went wrong from there... I guess it was simply a case of him being just that tad too bland on his own...people needed something to hold their interest...without the rest of the lads break-dancing people just were not interested in the music which was a great shame as I firmly believe had Gary had a successfull career TT would've never have got back together...well maybe for a one off but not permanently. It's a crying shame Gary never became mates with Louis Walsh back then as he would've been the perfect manager to enable him to be a success..... Louis Walsh, despite all his faults definatly knows what that target audience wants.... so perhaps instead of getting people like Madonna to pen tracks for his solo career, he would've been better off following Louis Walsh's path and doing covers of Cliff (I can just see him now doing a splendid cover of 'The Millenium Prayer' now...talk about a well suited track) and Barry Manilow tracks and the like, think of all the options. A Christmas album could've been an annual treat for you to look forward to Norma :lol: . It would've been a success I bet. And I think you are being too harsh on TT and their abilities in terms of international success...... with the Robster on board they are pretty much guarenteed a huge hit, well as long as he has the majority vocals in a collaborative manner as oppose to just being another backing singer to Mr Barlow. I just hope the lads don't have any idea of taking advantage of Rob's simply enormous popularity and astonishingly impressive ability to sell out stadiums in minutes accross the globe - as us Rob fans won't be best pleased - you TT fans have been spoilt when it comes to touring, they have done three or four since reforming ... so I hope Rob gets all of this TT nonsence out of the way and then does a tour. Not a massive one like the Close Encounters one, as he doesn'nt need that sort of pressure at this stage - a smaller tour spread out over a longer period would be perfect. And who knows, maybe the lads could be his support act? That way it's a win win situation, they get the exposure of a global audience and we wouldnt have to endure any tour with the together, but rather one where they would both do their own sets - and the TT fans who don't like Rob could just leave once they completed their set - at which point the Rob fans who dislike TT would arrive - a win win situation is you ask me. :D

The album drops to #15 this week in the charts with sales of around 12/13k or so, bringing the total to just under 835,000 copies. YKM drops to 63, it's total will now have passed 232,000 making it his best selling second single ever, apart from No Regrets :o

Nice to see it's getting good airplay.... I have yet to hear it once or see it on TV though. I cannot believe it is out next week :huh:

Yep that is the one. Grossed something like 200 million in a matter of weeks :o Well worth getting, it was facinating to watch MJ rehearse just days before he died..he was still able to do all the moves and his voice was sounding fantastic. Such a shame .. the shows would've been amazing. :(

Here is the Instrumental version of Bodies - fantastic stuff :yahoo: :dance: :w00t: u1h-CrUB8uw

What a match that was - I am so pleased Ireland won :yahoo: :yahoo: :w00t: Off to watch 'The Goonies' on TV :drink:

New Interview tomorrow :D http://i1004.photobucket.com/albums/af167/therobbiewilliamssiteukau/Picture2-25.png http://i1004.photobucket.com/albums/af167/therobbiewilliamssiteukau/5f655f3128219d381526a0b6349e80ff98d.jpg http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00r31w8 TRWS

We have to wait till 11.15 here to watch it :rolleyes: I wish Robert De Niro did interviews like Wossy as he has a new film out today. Would've been ace :smoke:

I try to avoid Sky News - the less of airheads such as Kay Burley and vile people like Kelvin McKenzie the better :lol: Johnny Depp and Tim Burton are on Wossy tonight - should be good :cheer:

Yeah he is good at what he does alright and does have his own songs unlike Westlife, who's Croke Park gig is still not sold out, so they have out of desperation added none other than JEDWARD as the support act. :rofl:

Hmm yeah, I supose it is just wishful thinking. :( As long as some serious effort is put into the new Greatest Hits, and a DVD will all the vids is released, I'll happily ignore any collaboration with the lads. -_-

I know. Ridiculous waste of valuable time :smoke: There are some rumours he will be headlining Slane this year but I highly doubt it - especially as it would have to be free which would make no sence unless he was doing a few nights which won't happen as Slane is only once a year. Kings Of Leon and Macca are also highly tipped. I won't be going back this year though, as it was chaos last year with Oasis. 5 hours to get back to Dublin when it should only take 40 minutes :rolleyes: Btw, Michael Buble has sold out 2 nights in the new Aviva Stadium (Landsdown Rd) :blink:

There was an article in MW I posted where Tim Clark says it is possible that the upcoming GH will possibly feature some songs Rob wrote with Gary. I'd much rather that, with the other songs featuing on a TT album then a whole album collaboration. How I wish they would just get the whole thing over with - how anyone can find this interesting anymore is frankly beyond me. :rolleyes: And im sick of the media thinking all the fans want this to happen. The only good thing is that there may be no performances. -_-

What a pathetic person, especially as he uses his daughters fame for his own publicity. :lol: I recall The Sun or The Mirror running a story a couple of years back about a possible duet between them, but I doubt there is any truth to it. Rob has said he has no interest in dueting with any female , besides I recall Amy being quite complimentary about Robbie before so I think it is a case of this moron trying to look cool :lol:

After seeing 'Crazy Heart' I sincery hope the academy don't do what they did last year with Mikey Rourke and deliberately give someone else the award due to the favourite winning all the previous award shows. Jeff Bridges performance is simply remarkable and he is easily one of the most underrated actors in Hollywood - an Oscar is overdue to say the least and this is the perfect role for him to get it for. I recken Stanley Tucci is also deserving for his amazing performance in 'The Lovely Bones'. If the Academy have decided not to give Best Picture to Avatar, I hope they do not do the predictable thing and give it to The Hurt Locker - the film simply does not deserve to clear up at the Oscars like it did at the Baftas. Id actually love it if we had a suprise winner such as 'Up' or ' District 9' - and Tarantino winning Best Director would be excellent, just to see the look on some of the snobs faces :lol:

Saw 'The Lovely Bones' this evening - a VERY odd film to say the least - but enjoyable and extremly well made by Peter Jackson. Fantastic performance from Stanly Tucci as the serial killer, a deserved win for Best Actor at the Oscars if Jeff Bridges doesnt get it. How on EARTH is it 12PG though? It would be madness to bring any 12 year old to see it :blink:

Should be interesting - I wonder will his knee hold up seeing as he says he had stopped playing due to it? I have a feeling 'Do You Mind' will be the theme for this year, like APTC was on 2006 :D

A TV Show? Do you mean he will be appearing on a German TV show or there will be a Robbie special? :unsure: The gig seems pointless - although obviously mastercard being the sponsor is the reason it is taking place - a bit of extra cash for EMI won't do any harm :rolleyes: A waste of energy on Rob's behalf though when thousands of us could be seeing him. -_-

I've voted Rock DJ as I definatly think it is one of the greatest vids ever made, although considering it is only ever the edited version shown on TV - most people probably don't even know the ending :lol: In reality though, if anything other than 'Thriller' wins, it will be a bit of a joke really. :lol: Afterall 'Thriller' was to music videos what The Beatles were to pop/rock music. Ah Ha's Take On Me was pretty great too though so I suspect that will feature in the top 5. Although MJ does in my view have over half a dozen truly iconic music videos... calling some of them music videos would be doing them a disservice as they would really short films. One of my personal favourite was a pretty unknown one called 'Ghosts' - it is the longest video ever - I think it was over 40 minutes long - amazing video but never really played <_<

Yeah the comback is going to be great :D Last night's episode (in the US) was very enjoyable - and next week looks even better, so I hope the quality continues to improve and it doesnt turn bland again mid-season. I am delighted the boring Dana story has ended - I found all three charachters involved utterly unlikeable and could've done without it tbh.

What a load of $h!te this award show is. There was some showbiz reported on UTV news last night discussing how he was delighted U2 were snubbed and how it will be like a kick in the teeth for them and how they need to be brought down a peg or two :rolleyes: How I would like to meet this idiot and inform him that the bloody Meteor awards are utterly irrelevent and U2 will not give a toss (Westlife won best pop act for a 10th year for heavens sake, despite their latest album flopping and doing no tour - I am not fan but The Script were clearly the best Irish pop act of the past year) I am sure they were annoyed with the Grammy awards but the whole NLOTH didnt make the impact their albums usually make simply because of the choice of the lead single of the worst track on the whole record 'Get On Your Boots' (which is a great live track but not good enough to be a single, never mind a lead one.). They misjudged the whole thing, Magnificent wouldve been the huge hit it deserved to be if picked as the lead single. I am sick of these moronic fools such as this reporter making awards shows such as this more important than they are and trying to diss U2 - as much as these delusional folk would love U2 to not be the biggest band on the face of the earth anymore - it simply won't be happening, especially when their biggest competition is Coldplay - who struggle to sell out bloody ARENAS in the US - and let's face it - it is the touring that matters these day. Yes the argument could be put forward that the Stones must be the biggest band then - well no because U2 can still sell a huge amount of albums - this album despite having zero hits, still sold close to 5 million copies and reached #1 in over 30 countries - The Stones last abum didnt even sell 2m. Overall taking both sales and touring into account they are by a bloody mile the biggest band on the planet - whether people like it or not - their current tour heading towards the biggest of all time, not only in terms of gross but attendance as well - is proof of that. :smoke:

I love this part. Finally some bloody facts regarding Rudebox being printed by such a credible source like Music Week. I loved the whole article - such a well written piece. :dance:

http://www.musicweek.com/Pictures/web/f/s/t/Robbie_Williams.jpg Robbie Williams: win when you're singing Music Week 16:32 | Monday February 22, 2010 With eight chart-topping albums and multi-million units shifted in his name, it is hard to think of a more worthy recipient of the Outstanding Contribution Brit award than Robbie Williams. We look back at the ex-Take That man’s remarkable career which shows little sign of abating What a difference a year makes. Just 12 months ago, Robbie Williams was being written off by the nation’s critics. Fast forward a year and he has been honoured with an Outstanding Contribution to British Music Award at the Brits. Last April, the massed music critics of the country seemed supremely sure of their facts. After all, they pointed out, Williams’ last album, Rudebox had flunked miserably, while his old bandmates Take That were now dominating the albums chart with The Circus. A closer look at the statistics, however, suggests that Williams was suffering from Jacko syndrome; a curious affliction whose symptoms can make a conspicuously successful artist look like an abject failure if he does not maintain his own previously huge levels of success. Robbie has sold more concert tickets in a single day (1.6m, for his 2006 world tour), won more Brit Awards (15) and sold more albums in the UK than any other British solo performer. Jacko Syndrome, however, means that Rudebox was rated a flop despite having debuted at number one in the UK albums chart, having become Europe’s fastest platinum-selling album of 2006 and having reached number one in 14 countries. It was a flop for being only the 18th best-selling album worldwide. That is the kind of failure most artists would give their eye teeth for. Since then, of course, he has released another album, the Trevor Horn-produced Reality Killed The Video Star which, EMI UK Ireland president Andria Vidler points out, “is well on the way to being triple-platinum within a couple of months of release and has already sold more than 1.3m albums overseas.” So maybe that Outstanding Contribution award is not a Brit too far after all. BPI chairman Tony Wadsworth says, “I’ve heard people ask why someone so young is getting an outstanding contribution award. Yes, he’s only 36, but Robbie has been a superstar for 15 years, which is remarkable by any standards”. Williams’ decade-and-a-half on top has been all the more remarkable because his achievements have always been subjected to intense scrutiny, much of it unflattering and some of it, even he would admit, self-inflicted. The boy from Stoke-on-Trent first tasted fame with Take That, helping them sell more than 20m records between 1991 and 1996. His well-publicised and acrimonious departure from the fold in July 1995 was followed by a period of relative inactivity because, although he was quickly courted by EMI, a clause in his former contract prohibited him from recording as a solo performer until Take That were officially dissolved. One vital step was to find a management team that would take him seriously, which he did in November 1996. “He came to our offices,” remembers his co-manager David Enthoven of IE Music. “We had a good long chat and recognised straight away that there was something very special about him. He really did have the aura and charisma of a star.” Enthoven’s partner Tim Clark, adds, “At our second meeting, he played us some rough demos which were great, but what really caught our attention was when he recited his poetry. We knew then that he had the makings of an amazing songwriter.” It was at this point that EMI A&R Chris Briggs first encountered Williams and realised almost immediately that he was dealing with much more than a pretty face. “He was living in a basement flat in Maida Vale,” remembers Briggs, “I went round there and he immediately started playing me music he loved. He jumped from Nat ‘King’ Cole to Neil Young to Dr. Dre, a fantastically varied range of styles, so right away I realised that he didn’t think in genres. He just thinks about what he loves. “He showed me an exercise book crammed full of lyrics. I opened it up and starting reading a couple and they were like ready-made songs." It transpired that much of Williams’ dissatisfaction in Take That had stemmed from the impossibility of having his musical ideas taken seriously in a band whose fortunes rested so solidly on Gary Barlow’s songwriting gifts. When Take That split in February 1996, Williams was free to start his own recording career but there were other problems that would surface from time to time throughout his solo career. In the first few months of his relationship with EMI, he spent time in rehab, recovering from addiction problems. “It’s on the record that he went into rehab,” acknowledges Briggs, “and that he had to be given permission to come out to make the video for Lazy Days.” There was debate within EMI about whether he had been a wise signing, but Briggs had already seen encouraging signs of his potential as a songwriter. “He had disappeared that Christmas,” reveals Briggs. “He was not happy. He’d fallen out with his girlfriend and just needed to get away. He called me from Dublin one night, quite drunk, and over the phone he sang me what he was then calling Angels Instead. The line that became the chorus hook was in there, but it was the middle eight.” Their spectacularly felicitous collaboration went on to spawn five number one albums, with Guy Chambers co-writing some of Williams’ signature smashes, including Rock DJ, Feel, Millennium, Let Me Entertain You, Angels, Supreme, No Regrets and Eternity. “From a retail perspective, he’s been one of our most significant artists in terms of sales during the past 15 years,” observes HMV head of music Rudy Osorio. “Many of us occasionally forget just how many fantastic albums Robbie has delivered since he embarked on his solo career – generating tens of millions in revenue for our industry – here in the UK and internationally." But back in 1996 it was not quite so clear cut. His first single was a cover of George Michael’s Freedom, chosen because it represented what he was going through. “Robbie didn’t care for it,” admits Briggs, “because it wasn’t one of his own songs.” Although Freedom provided that essential first solo hit, the next two singles were clunkers. Despite Briggs’ certainty that Angels was the biggest hit on the album, it had been held back. Tony Wadsworth, who had just taken over as chairman and CEO of EMI, explains why. “Robbie still wasn’t in the healthiest of states, as far as things like having the stamina to take on America.” Angels, finally released in December 1997, turned everything around, provided him his first Brit, going on to be voted the best song of the past 25 years by the British public and creating the foundation on which his multi-platinum career has been built. But even the success of Angels was tinged with emotional distress for Williams. “It pees me off,” he declared later, “because everyone thinks Guy penned Let Me Entertain You and Angels, but they’re my songs.” Chambers is the first to concede that, for all his own invaluable input to the process, Williams is a remarkably driven songwriter. “He’s very intense about his songwriting,” he says. “We would write constantly, on tour buses, in TV stations, wherever the inspiration came to him. Me And My Monkey on Escapology, for example, was written literally five minutes before we went on stage in Taiwan. He’ll go through a whole pack of cigarettes before we finish a song.” There is no denying that Williams works on instinct and that often, these instincts can set him on a collision course with those around him. For example, just after signing his massive new deal with EMI in 2002, he blithely stated that he had no intention of cracking the US; he announced onstage in France that he and Guy were gay lovers; and who can forget him inviting Liam Gallagher to join him in a boxing ring? “It’s his unpredictability that makes him so exciting,” laughs Wadsworth. “He’s an extraordinarily charismatic star but he also knows it’s all an illusion. He sees it for what it is. Besides, he’s still young and I believe he can still make it in America. Of course, he’d have to want to.” “There’s no denying that Rob is sensitive to criticism, and he is very ambitious,” reckons Briggs. “I think Rudebox underperforming definitely knocked him back a bit, so he’s genuinely very chuffed that Reality Killed The Video Star has been so well-received. And I think that goes back to the first thing I realised about him, which is that it’s all intuitive. It’s about his personal taste. If he’s not into a song he can’t do it with any conviction. As with most artists, he’s really pleasing himself first and foremost, and that’s when he’s at his best.” http://www.musicweek.com/story.asp?section...1040153&c=2 Thanks to Gata at TRWS