Angels — Robbie Williams
I’m convinced more Brits know all the words to “Angels” by Robbie Williams than know the words to our national anthem. And I’ve got evidence…more on that in a moment…
Robbie Williams first came to the public’s attention in the 90s as part of Take That — a five-piece boy band pretty much in the mould of every other boy band there’s ever been. With one important difference. Take That had a member who could write songs…good songs…the sort of songs that could become Number One records.
Sadly that wasn’t Robbie, but his bandmate Gary Barlow. Increasingly, Robbie Williams felt his talents were being side-lined and he exited the band in the mid-90s. Historically the rebellious “bad boy” of the band, at the time most Brits probably thought he’d fade into obscurity apart from occasional appearances in the more scandalous sections of the press for misdemeanours of one sort or another, as faded starts of yesteryear do from time to time.
But Robbie Williams defied those expectations and turned in a series of career-defining performances which have endeared him to the hearts of Brits for the last quarter-century.
Today, he’s still one of the most impressive live performers in the country, 25 years on from his first hesitant steps as a solo artist. Nobody gets an audience engaged, excited, and ramped up like Robbie Williams does — he has…
