Robert Peter "Robbie" Williams[1] (born 13 February 1974) is a
BRIT Award-winning
English singer-songwriter,
musician,
record producer and
multi-instrumentalist. His career started in 1990, at the age of 16, as a dancer and singer with the pop band
Take That. He left the band in
1995 to launch his solo career. He has enjoyed a very successful solo career, and his latest studio album
Reality Killed the Video Star was released on November 9th 2009, including his latest hit, "
Bodies". After leaving
Take That, Williams launched his solo career starting things off in 1996 by covering
George Michael's "
Freedom", the single reached number two in the
UK Singles Chart,
[2] twenty-six places higher than George Michael's original. Recordings for Williams' first album began at London's Maison Rouge studios in March of that year. Shortly after his introduction to
Guy Chambers, Williams released "
Old Before I Die" which would be the first single taken from his début album. Co-written by Williams with
Eric Bazilian and
Desmond Child, the single was released in April 1996, hitting number-two on the UK Charts;
[2] however, it was largely ignored on international charts. The second single, "
Lazy Days", was released in mid-1997. Although Williams was going through re-hab at the time, he was allowed to check out to shoot the video for the song, but promotion for the single was non-existent, so whilst the single charted at number eight in the United Kingdom,
[2] it struggled to reach the top forty of any European chart. His début album,
Life thru a Lens, was released in September 1997. The album launched with his first live solo gig at the Elysée Montmartre theatre in Paris, France. At first, the album was slow to take off, debuting at number eleven of the
UK Album Charts. The third single of the album, "
South of the Border", failed to make a significant impact on the UK Charts. When it was released in September 1997, it only reached number fourteen. After Williams met the record company's concerns about his future, he released what would be the fourth single taken from his album, not knowing it would become his biggest single in the United Kingdom so far, and one of his most well-known songs and successful. "
Angels" became Williams' best seller in the United Kingdom, being certified 2x Platinum by the
BPI.
[3] The song, apart from becoming a hit around Europe and
Latin America, caused sales of his album to skyrocket. The album remained forty weeks inside the British top ten and 218 weeks altogether, making it the 58th best selling album in UK History with sales over 2.4 million.
[4] The album eventually managed to sell over three million copies in Europe alone.
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