Reality Killed the Video Star: Robbie WilliamsHow are we to read the rune of Robbie Williams’s comeback album? Produced by synth-pop godfather Trevor Horn, the title of Williams’s seventh album nods towards Horn’s own greatest hit of 1979, Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star”. Depending on how you interpret “reality” – and we’re guessing Williams [...]
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I enjoy myself a nice healthy dose of Robbie Williams from time to time, and who wouldn't with the upcoming disco-strings-dancefloor-Trevor Horn produced single Bodies. A new album will be out November 9, titled Reality Killed The Video Star. An instrumental clip of the track is available on Robbie's blog, along with a nifty 'behind the scenes' clip shot during the filming of Bodies.
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EMI is having some problems with its artists and their managers. Earlier this week we reported on the label firing their artist-friendly CEO Tony Wadsworth and rumors that Coldplay, like Radiohead and Paul McCartney before them, would leave the label. Now it seems that another major seller, Robbie Williams, is putting his foot down against the financial restructuring of the label, which was pur...
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By Dominic Walsh - Timesonline.co.ukEMI, the music group behind Norah Jones and Coldplay, will announce plans tomorrow to scrap the system whereby each of its record labels has its own support function in a move that is likely to cost up to 2,000 jobs. The restructuring, which has prompted a wave of protest from artists including Robbie Williams, is being pushed through by Guy Hands, boss of th...
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Lead single from Robbie Williams upcoming release, 'Reality Killed The Video Star'. Good song that seems to have fairly obvious inflections of old Motown soul pop!I really like the title of Williams' album; Obviously a play on The Buggles 1979 release 'Video Killed The Radio Star', I think Williams is aptly describing the current change in media formats much in the same way The Buggles describ...
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To add to the conversation that davesonic started in his post today about EMI, Guy Hands and the label's musicians, here is another perspective of the music industry - one that many people don't like to discuss. Guy Hands, the "plantation owner" at the head of Terra Firma (the corp that recently purchased EMI), revealed some disturbing stats about the label's album releases to The Guardian. H...
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Update: Listen to the entire single here on Youtube...Look at this! Here is the album cover for Robbie Williams's new long player, "Reality Killed The Video Star". Wow. I like that dusty Gap Boy look - it's kinda sexy.And for your listening and viewing pleasure, here's a little widget which has a sneak peek at the new video for "Bodies" which is all sounding like a good launch single from Mr....
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Robbie Williams Album & Single News UK pop rock singer Robbie Williams is getting ready to release a new album eighth studio album titled Reality Killed the Video Star on October 30th. His first single off their new album called "Bodies" will be released on October 12th. Comments/Thoughts Share and Enjoy:
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Robbie Williams made a triumphant live comeback in London last night (Oct. 21), as part of the BBC's Electric Proms series of concerts. Appearing at the London Roundhouse with a 38-piece band, including string and brass sections -- led by Trevor Horn, who produced Williams' new album "Reality Killed the ...
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Robbie Williams, who was lovingly nick named “the fat dancer” by the Gallaghers, has taken another pop at his old rivals Oasis.Thinking Liam and Noel Gallagher are better off apart Robbie says: “Originally I thought they’d inevitably get back together because they are the band.“But reading between the lines, they’re both really stubborn so I [...]
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Robbie Williams aka “I’ve got no game in the US” seems to be worried about his comeback. It’s been 2 years since the former Take That star’s “Rudebox” album got dissed by the critics.“Reality Killed The Video Star” is set for release on November 9 while the first single “Bodies” premieres on October 12. Robbie [...]
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Robbie Williams has reportedly been in the studio with his former band Take That.According to the Daily Mirror, the singer met up with his former bandmates in Electric Lady studios in New York to work together for the first time since Williams left the band in 1995.The newspaper is quoting a source saying that Williams [...]Related posts:Robbie Williams and Dame Shirley Bassey To Perform at BBC...
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Robbie Williams has a new album coming out on November 9. It is called Reality Killed The Video Star.The album has tracks–thirteen of them, in fact. They are:Morning SunBodiesYou Know MeBlasphemyDo You Mind?Last Days Of Disco [Editor's Note: !!!]SomewhereDeceptaconStarstruckDifficult For WeirdosSuperblindWon’t Do ThatMorning Sun Reprise The album was produced by Trevor Horn. You know, the [...
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Via Holy Moly today. And about fucking time Robbie. Stop being a lazy git and entertain us again. I miss you. You were the first celeb to ever smile and give me the eye in London whilst going to dinner in Notting Hill and for 9 years, I've been waiting for that to happen again..."Robbie Williams is 100 percent guaranteed to be touring the UK late 2009. Hepersonally phoned or emailed each ba...
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A source said : " ' Rudebox ' was not Robbie's greatest work and things went very quiet for him afterwards. Robbie, whose next LP is due for release on EMI in September 2009, could follow Madonna, U2 and Jay Z and sign a mega deal with concert promoters Live Nation. Since the release of ' Rudebox ', Robbie has been living in Los Angeles, where has developed an obsession with UFOs and decided to...
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