Robert Peter Williams was born on 13 February 1974 and is an English singer and songwriter.
95 Facts About Robbie Williams
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Robbie Williams found fame as a member of the pop group Take That from 1990 to 1995, and achieved commercial success after launching a solo career in 1996.
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Robbie Williams's discography includes seven UK No 1 singles, and all but one of his 14 studio albums have reached No 1 in the UK.
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Robbie Williams has received a record 18 Brit Awards, winning Best British Male Artist four times, Outstanding Contribution to Music twice, an Icon Award for his lasting impact on British culture, eight German ECHO Awards, and three MTV European Music Awards.
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In 2011, Take That frontman Gary Barlow confirmed that Robbie Williams had left the band for a second time to focus on his solo career, although he stated that the departure was amicable and that Robbie Williams was welcome to rejoin Take That in the future.
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Robbie Williams has since performed with Take That on three separate television appearances, and collaborated with Barlow on a number of projects such as the West End musical The Band.
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Robert Peter Robbie Williams was born on 13 February 1974 in Stoke-on-Trent, the son of Janet and Peter Robbie Williams, who ran a pub called the Red Lion in Burslem before becoming the licensee at the Port Vale FC Social Club.
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In 1990, the sixteen-year-old Robbie Williams was the youngest member to join Take That.
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Barlow explained in interviews that Robbie Williams had given up trying to offer creative input.
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Robbie Williams agreed to quit and left the group in July 1995; it would be the last time for twelve years that they were all together.
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Shortly afterwards, Robbie Williams was photographed by the press partying with the members of Oasis at Glastonbury Festival.
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However, both did join with the other acts in the final song of the evening, with Robbie Williams putting his arm around Gary Barlow and singing "Hey Jude".
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On 15 July 2010, Robbie Williams reconciled with his former colleagues and rejoined Take That.
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Robbie Williams was due to perform with Take That but missed the performance because his wife gave birth at around the same time; the group performed as a four-piece.
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Robbie Williams continued to write music with his colleagues and has performed with the group on several occasions since 2011's Progress tour and planned to return for a full tour to celebrate Take That's 30th anniversary in 2019.
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Robbie Williams launched his solo career in 1996 with a cover of George Michael's "Freedom", which reached number two in the UK Singles Chart.
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Shortly after his introduction to songwriter and producer Guy Chambers, Robbie Williams released "Old Before I Die", the first single from his debut album.
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The first single, "Millennium", accompanied with a music video featuring Robbie Williams parodying James Bond, complete with tuxedo and references to Bond films like Thunderball and From Russia with Love, became Robbie Williams' first solo number one single in the United Kingdom.
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Robbie Williams finished the year with a European Tour late in 1999.
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In 1999, Robbie Williams was signed to Capitol Records in the United States, a part of EMI.
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Robbie Williams embarked on a United States promotional tour and released his first United States and Canadian single, "Millennium".
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Robbie Williams took two weeks off from his tour to record Swing When You're Winning, his fourth studio album.
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Robbie Williams took the chance to duet with his long-time friend Jonathan Wilkes, Little Voice star Jane Horrocks, Saturday Night Live star Jon Lovitz, Rupert Everett and actress Nicole Kidman.
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Robbie Williams began working on what would be his fifth studio album, spending a year in the recording studio.
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Robbie Williams had taken a more active role in the making of this album.
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In October 2003, Robbie Williams released a live album of the concerts, Live at Knebworth.
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In October 2004, Robbie Williams released, Greatest Hits, a retrospective of his career, and, to reveal the new tracks he had been working on with the then-new collaborator, Stephen Duffy.
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Robbie Williams kicked off his Close Encounters World Tour in South Africa in April 2006, when he finished his European leg of the tour.
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In February 2009, it was confirmed that Robbie Williams had written material with Guy Chambers and Mark Ronson.
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On his official website, Robbie Williams confirmed that he was working with producer Trevor Horn on his new album, which would eventually be titled Reality Killed the Video Star, a reference to the song "Video Killed the Radio Star" by Horn's former band The Buggles.
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On 11 October 2009 Robbie Williams published a 12-track compilation album, titled Songbook, as a free CD for the newspaper The Mail on Sunday.
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That same evening, Robbie Williams made his "comeback" on The X Factor results show, performing his new single "Bodies" for the first time live.
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On 20 October 2009 Robbie Williams opened the BBC Electric Proms at the London RoundHouse.
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In late November 2009, Robbie Williams travelled to Australia to perform at the ARIA Music Awards of 2009.
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On 21 October 2011 Robbie Williams signed with Island Records, following his departure from his previous record label EMI in 2010.
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Robbie Williams was the opening act at the Diamond Jubilee Concert, which was co-organised by Gary Barlow, held outside Buckingham Palace on 4 June 2012.
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On 26 November 2012 Robbie Williams announced a 17 date stadium tour of Europe.
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Robbie Williams confirmed that the support act for the tour would be Olly Murs who duets with him on "Kids".
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In September 2013, Robbie Williams announced a follow up to his 2001 swing album, titled Swings Both Ways for release in November.
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In November 2013 Robbie Williams made a cameo appearance in the video to Murs's song "Hand on Heart".
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Robbie Williams released a compilation album entitled Under the Radar Volume 1 on 1 December 2014 through his website, featuring leftovers and unreleased songs.
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In May 2016, it was announced that Robbie Williams had signed a recording contract with Sony Music.
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In July 2017, Robbie Williams announced a new album, Under the Radar Volume 2, which was released in November 2017.
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On 14 June 2018, Robbie Williams performed at the 2018 FIFA World Cup opening ceremony held at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, Russia.
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Robbie Williams then performed an encore with "Rock DJ", during which he gave the finger.
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The album sold over 67,000 copies, which is identical sales to his previous studio album release The Heavy Entertainment Show, Robbie Williams sold over 10,000 cassettes in 7 days, which is the most in two decades.
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On 25 February 2022, it was revealed that Robbie Williams had teamed up with his regular collaborators Tim Metcalfe and Flynn Francis to record the trance track "Sway" under the new alias 'Lufthaus'.
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In May 2022 Robbie Williams performed at the Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, Australia, specifically for the upcoming biopic, Better Man.
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On 7 June 2022, Robbie Williams announced that his tenth compilation album, XXV, would be released on 9 September 2022.
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On 5 August 2022, Robbie Williams released the single "Lost", taken from XXV.
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In doing so, Robbie Williams broke all previous Official Chart records with his fourteenth solo number one album.
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On 24 September 2022, Robbie Williams performed at the 2022 AFL Grand Final held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne, Australia.
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In November 2022, Robbie Williams performed in Qatar as part of the country's FIFA World Cup 2022 celebrations.
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Robbie Williams's appearance attracted criticism due to Qatar's human rights abuses and strict LGBT laws.
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On 5 May 2023, Robbie Williams was featured on the bilingual single "Une Tahitienne a Paris", by French singer Mareva Galanter.
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Robbie Williams collaborated with Australian pop star Kylie Minogue on the song "Kids".
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Robbie Williams collaborated with Australian film star Nicole Kidman on a cover of Frank and Nancy Sinatra's "Somethin' Stupid".
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In 2001, Robbie Williams recorded "We Are the Champions" with Queen for the 2001 medieval adventure film A Knight's Tale.
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In 2002, Robbie Williams appeared on the track "My Culture" on the 1 Giant Leap album, alongside rapper Maxi Jazz.
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The CD features a concert recorded for the BBC featuring the Pet Shop Boys and Robbie Williams singing their classic hit "Jealousy".
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In 2012, Robbie Williams recorded a duet with Mexican recording artist Thalia for the Spanish song "Te quiero dijiste ", included on her album Habitame Siempre.
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In 2005 Robbie Williams provided the voice of Dougal in the film adaption of The Magic Roundabout.
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On 26 August 2010, it was announced Robbie Williams would become a guest vocal coach on the ninth series of German reality television show Popstars: Girls forever to teach candidates for a girl group.
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On 20 September 2010, Robbie Williams released his second book called You Know Me in collaboration with Chris Heath.
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Robbie Williams launched a radio show titled Radio Rudebox on 6 October 2011 where he played music and interviewed Gary Barlow.
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Robbie Williams recorded the song "It's Only Us" as the theme for the FIFA video game FIFA 2000.
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Williams features in his own karaoke video game, We Sing Robbie Williams, which was released on 12 November 2010 by Nordic Games Publishing AB.
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In 2005, Robbie Williams founded a football team called Los Angeles Vale FC Robbie Williams formed the club with other celebrity friends after building his own soccer pitch at his home in Los Angeles.
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In 2011, Robbie Williams announced he was working with entrepreneur Peter Jones in developing a clothing line called Farrell in honour of his grandfather Jack Farrell.
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Robbie Williams appeared in the 2009 edition of the Guinness Book of World Records when his sell-out show at the BBC Electric Proms at London's Roundhouse was screened by more than 250 cinemas across 23 countries to set a new record for the most simultaneous cinematic screenings of a live concert.
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In September 2010, Robbie Williams switched on the Blackpool illuminations, stating that it was one of the greatest honours he had achieved.
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Robbie Williams was ranked at No 11 the greatest frontman of all time in a reader poll by Q magazine.
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Robbie Williams revealed that he was once asked to be the new frontman of Queen, but that he turned down the offer because of his "very low self-esteem".
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Robbie Williams has revealed that he does the "Elvis Prayer" before going on stage at every concert.
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Contemporary artists have expressed their admiration for Robbie Williams and have cited him as one of their influences.
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Robbie Williams described his own performance on stage as "a combination of rap, rock and Robbie Williams".
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Robbie Williams has reportedly battled mental illness, obesity, self-esteem issues, alcoholism, and substance abuse throughout his life.
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Robbie Williams has discussed how his friend Elton John booked him into a clinic to cope with his drug use that emerged from the depression he was experiencing while still in Take That.
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Robbie Williams revealed in 2011 he had been experiencing lethargy caused by a type of hormone imbalance called andropause for a number of years, and thought at first it was a return of his depression.
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The documentary followed them to a UFO convention in Nevada, during which Robbie Williams connected his interest in the paranormal with the desire to understand his childhood fears of his mother's interest in "the world's mysteries, elves, demons, [and] witchcraft".
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Robbie Williams featured in a 2018 TV documentary Hunt for the Skinwalker by Jeremy Corbell, and revealed that his partner Ayda Field dissuaded him from buying the Skinwalker Ranch when it became for sale.
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Robbie Williams became an ordained minister with the Universal Life Church Monastery to officiate the wedding of friends.
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Robbie Williams has a number of tattoos, many of which are related to British culture.
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Robbie Williams became a fan of his hometown football team Port Vale FC as a child after his father became the licensee of the team's social club.
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Robbie Williams has played in a testimonial game for club legend Neil Aspin.
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In 2020, Robbie Williams received backlash for expressing his belief in the widely debunked Pizzagate conspiracy theory.
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In 1997, Robbie Williams was in a month-long relationship with Spice Girls singer Melanie Chisholm.
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In May 2006, Robbie Williams started dating American actress Ayda Field.
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Robbie Williams was featured in the UFO documentary that Williams did for BBC Radio 4 and took part in a field investigation he did in Trout Lake, Washington in 2008.
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However the club entered administration on 9 March 2012, and as a result Robbie Williams lost all of his shares in the club and received only a fraction of his original investment back.
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Robbie Williams has been the Patron of the children's charity the Donna Louise Trust, based in Stoke-on-Trent, since 2002.
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Robbie Williams has won various awards, with some of his more recognised accolades being the Brit Awards.
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Robbie Williams has won a record eighteen Brit Awards, which include the Brits he won with Take That, making him the most successful artist in the history of the awards.
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Robbie Williams has won 8 Echo Awards from the German music industry.
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Along the tours, Robbie Williams had various members in his band.