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 Robbie Williams - The Facts by www.fans-supreme.com
Name: Robert Peter Maximilian Williams
Birthday: 13th February 1974
Birthplace: Stoke-On Trent
Star sign: Aquarius
Colour of eye: green
Colour of hair: dark brown
Height: about 1,85
Parents: Peter Williams (stage name: Pete Conway), Theresa Jeanette Williams (Jan)...seperated,when Rob was 2 years old, he grew up at his mother’s place.
Sister: Sally (7 years older than Rob)
Residences: London/Los Angeles
Education: Mill Hill Primary School, St. Margaret Ward School.. at the age of 16 rob finishes his school days, and takes a musical path
Employment: short as sales representative for Doublex Windows...(but unfortunatly, or fortunatly, without success-who knows, what he had became instead...?)
Hobbies
Football (Fan of the Port Vale Football Club http://www.port-vale.co.uk)
Parlour games like Backgammon,UNO and...? let’s wait and see,with which game he whiles away the time the next time!)
Music (of course!) when he doesn’t sing, Rob plays a bit the guitar and he even played the drums, too.
Robbie and Drugs
Drugs and alcohol...cocaine and vodka... that all was once a part of Robbie Williams. After he got out of Take That, the press reported repeatedly about Rob’s alcohol problems.
Years later he says about himself:"I`ve been a fully-blown alcoholic and a fully-blown drug addict.I couldn`t go into rehearsals without drinking a bottle of Vodka.I couldn`t leave without drinking myself stupid each night.
I didn`t know what to do with myself."
In an Interview with the Select Magazine in May 1997 he replied to the question what he had did the last year:
"Well, this and that, you know? I can't remember most of it." "I was fucking drunk!" he beams.
At this time Rob was often to find at parties and in pubs..."I didn`t know [..] about wanting to sort your problems out.I didn´t have any problems - I had cocaine!"
Robbie’s mother,Jan,stood always behind him and supported him, everywhere she was able to, but in the end he had to decide on his own that he wanted to make a withdrawal treatment. ''Robert is poorly. He has a drink problem. It's like having an illness. ''I have no doubt that Robert will address it and is addressing it. He has been looking at the whole situation for about 12 months and he's doing it of his own free will. ''I love him like any mum would love her son and you do what you can. I know Robert's going to be all right and I am proud of him.''
In June 1997 he went into the "Clouds House Drink and Drugs Rehabilitation Clinic in Salisbury, Wilstshire ". Unfortunately Rob wasn’t able to keep away from the alcohol even after this time. Only on his last tour he was totally clean.
In the documentation "Nobody Someday" he speaks very openly about the topic alcohol and drugs...
"I`ve been trying to get sober for four years.Booze and drugs worked for me since I was 19.They were my crutch.They gave me the confidence and the escape that I needed.It hasn`t been like that for four years.But still there is a underlying thing in my brain that says,if you do this time,it will be fine.....[...]
The devil over your shoulder.Amazing how it`s made to be your friend!”
Rob is a member of the Alcoholics Anonymous and goes to their meetings regularly. Even on the last tour he looked up a group in Hamburg.
He says about alcohol:
" I only want to get laid if I`m drinking.I only can get laid if I`m drinking.It`s a lot easier if you`re pissed.
But I can only have a relationship with another human being if I`m sober,I cannot let love into my live.I will not accept somebody coming and loving me.I wouldn´t know how to love them because I`m a selfish-pitying fool.
Today, I really don`t feel like a drink!
I really don`t feel I could put any cocaine up my nose!
The compulsion to do all that stuff has been removed today!
Music
Robert Peter Williams spent his childhood in Stoke-on Trent in the north-west of England.He grew up with his mother, after his parents got divorced at the age of two Years.Even then was to realize that he had a talent for entertaining people.In school he was always the "clown" and in his mother’s pub (Red Lion in Burslem/Stoke-on Trent) he astound the guests with little "shows" .
Also friends of the family, like f.e. the hairdresser Patricia Mcnair tell:"Sometimes on Saturdays he passed by, and sang, or danced for us.Even then he was the born entertainer, although he was only 7 years old!
At the age of 14 years he got at the "Stoke-On-Trent Theatre group the role of the "sly crook-Artful Dodger" in the musical Oliver Twist.An employee oft the then cast remembers:"Robbie was a nice kid with lots of personality,and confident even then.He was very much the local boy with a strong local accent which he had to cover up when he played Dodger."
His mother Jan supported Robbie wherever it was possible.She was as well the one,who reacted to the appel,where the then manager Nigel Martin-Smith searched for the fifth member of a Boy Band.
The 16 Year old Robbie became so the youngest member of "Take That"The boyband became one of the most famous pop gruops of the following years!But inside the group there ware soon the first disagreements, which leaded in the end to the breaking off 1996.(more about Take That: www.takethat.de)
Robbie about the life in a boyband:"A career you can’t set up with it,but you earn hell of a lot money in short time.However you aren’t free,every second of your life is planned, you are a product."July 17 1995 he left the band.At that time he is 21 years old and falls into a deep crisis....alcohol, drugs, parties... One year later in July 1996 his first solo single is released,a cover version of George Michael’s hit "Freedom".
The music business is astonished.Musical they hadn’t reckon with Robbie Williams any more.
In April 1997 "Old Before I Die" is released with success.The MTV Europe Music Awards 1996 are hosted by Robbie Williams.But the press reports over and over again about alcohol and drug excesses
In June 1997 finally he goes the step into a rehab clinic, the " Clouds House Drink and Drugs Rehabilitation Clinic in Salisbury, Wilstshire "
At this time Robbie was already ‚in the hand’ of David Enthoven and Tim Clark the team of his new management IE Music.Than everything happened very fast...Robbie and Guy Chambers became a musical pair.The two complemented one another perfect,and wrote "Angels" within short time.In December 1997 "Angels" is released and hits straightaway the top 10.The first album "Life thru a lens",which was into the shops since September, gets because of that progress in the charts.
"Angels" becomes a world wide hit,and all the other singles make themselves also a name.1997 he starts his first solo tour,too,which him also takes to Germany.
September 1998 "Millennium" becomes a hit.In October 1998 the second album " I`ve been expecting you" is released.In November 1998 he wins "Best Male Artist" at the MTV Europe Awards.
1999 he is nominated in 6 categories at the Brit Awards and wins Best British Male,Best Single(Angels) and Best Video(Millennium)In May 1999 he has is first appearance in America in the David Letterman Late Night ShowAfter that he starts his first promotion in the states with little gigs in different clubs and appearances on the radio.At the same time "The Ego has landed" is released in the USA-a completion of his best songs until then.
In August 1999 he plays the legendary Slane Castle Concert in Dublin/Ireland.As well Tom Jones declared his interest in Robbie and released in September 1999 the album "Reload",a cover album recorded with numerous other musicians .Robbie sings together with "the tiger" "Are you gonna go my way"( original of Lenny Kravitz).
In October 1999 Robbie’s face even manages to be on a can!He signs a commercial contract with the big soft drink company "Pepsi"Likewise in October Rob records a version of Frank Sinatra’s classical"Come fly with me" ,which is to hear in the Christmas special comic " Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" on BBC.In November is a soundtrack of the TV serial "Friends" released.Robbie contributes there a cover version of the Pet Shop Boy’s " I wouldn’t normally Do This Kind Of Thing" to.In November 1999 "She´s The One" manages to get no. 1.
In March 2000 a close pal of Robbie dies.Ian Dury ,a British rock star had worked until his death for the relief organisation UNICEF,which also means a lot for Robbie.In June a tribute-concert is held,where Robbie performs the Song "Sweet gene Vincent" with Dury`s band The Blockheads..On the album"Brand new boots and panties" is it to find.(more information www.iandury.co.uk)
The first single in the new millennium gets "Rock DJ" and enters successful into the charts in June.Thought the Video is censored and only played in a cut version.In August 2000 the third album"Sing When You´re Winning" is released.All singles enter the best chart positions. Among other thing is also a duet with the Australian singer Kylie Minougue "Kids" a success.Robbie Williams manages with this album finally to come out of the shadow of his past.on the Concerts the audience is very mixed.The teens of the past are grown up and Robbie's musical qualities and the talent of a born entertainer are high rated.
In November 2000 Robbie wins "Best Song " for Rock DJ at the EMA`s.He thanked for it:" am not going to say anything bad about people's choices on this one or voting for this one, but I think it's a terrible song and it is a silly song."In February 2001 he creams of the profits again in three categories at the Brit Awards.Best male,Video and Best Single.2001 the "Sermon On The Mount Tour" starts across Europe.In March 2001 the soundtrack to the movie "Bridget Jones" is released.Robbie is represent with 2 songs "Have You Met Miss Jones" and "Not of this Earth"
After that follows a cooperations with the band "Queen".Robbie replaces Freddie Mercury's place and sings for the movie "A Knight's Tale" the Queen hymn"We Are The Champions".As well a video is produced.In May 2001 the new summer singel"Eternity" hits the shops.In August 2001 he plays a addition open air concert in cologne,which is later shown on German television,too.
In October 2001 Robbie thinks about his musical examples and gives a swing concert at the Royal Albert in London.The ticket prices reach astronomical heights,and are only to get on the Internet. The recordings for the cover album" Swing When you´re winning" ware in the legendary Capitol Studios in Los Angeles,accompanied by a big band with well known musicans,for example the pianist Bill Miller,who had already worked with Frank Sinatra.Robbie spends his whole energy on that project and feels really good for the first time,with that what he does.
In November 2001 wins at the EMA`s "Best Male"
In December 2001 the duet "Something Stupid" with Nicole Kidmann is released for Christmas.
2002 the last album of Ian Dury and the Blockheads is finally out.Robbie Williams is a part of it again with the song " You`re the why"In February 2002 Robbie wins(once again) a Brit Award "Best Male".He also performed in the "1 Giant Leap" album and released with the single "My Culture".(for more information www.1giantleap.tv)Then it gets ,at least musical, a bit more quiet around Robbie WilliamsThe summer 2002 Robbie spend in Los Angeles,where he has bought a house,and where he wants to spend time in the future as well.
In November 2002 he releases his fifth album "Escapology" which gets in only 2 months the most sold album in the UK. It’s the first one of the six, Robbie’s label EMI paid 128 mio€ for, and the last one which Robbie has written together with Guy Chambers.
Summer 2003
Robbie tours around Europe with his Weekends of Mass Distraction - Tour 2003.
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