01x02 - Nobody Someday

[bunniefuu]

Sh!

So, Rob?

Reason I've come down here today

is to give you one of these.

Unfortunately, I'm afraid it's not vinyl,

but they did send all of it.

- Thank you very much.

- You're very welcome.

Cheers.

- That's it. You've won.

- Thank you very much.

- Thank you.

- You earned it.

D'you believe what's happening?

I don't know.

Really dunno. I'm just flummoxed.

I'm really, really happy at the moment.

I'm gonna be doing that

all over the world this time next year.

Yes.

You know, it's just, like, I'm 24.

I'm 24.

A year ago,

Robbie Williams' career seemed at an end.

The man who stormed the BRITs,

the MTV Awards, and the Ivor Novellos.

some people are saying

this is a huge runaway smash

and vulnerable.

He also can't seem to stay out of

According to the press,

he's been giving me one. Mr

- Robbie.

- Robbie Williams!

Trauma chats!

Got ourselves

an opening-credits song.

Yeah. Trauma chats!

I was in Take That

Then I got real fat

In a trauma chat!

You're only supposed to do this

at the pearly gates with St. Peter.

This looking back at your life.

There's a a lot to unpack

in the feelings

of watching myself over the years.

I don't know if this is something

that people should do.

Or this people.

But, you know,

Pandora's box has been opened.

Hello!

From an auspicious start,

"Angels" happens,

and the career takes off.

Everything seems to keep gettin'

professionally bigger

and bigger and bigger.

I'm coming!

Just one moment!

From side to side like yay.

We got stars directing

Time now

for a brand-new number one.

Can you believe it's the first

of his career as a solo artist?

it's not too late

- Millennium

- Some say that we

Back then,

I was box office.

And I find myself in a stratosphere

that very few have existed in.

It was

f*ck' insane.

Absolutely insane.

And the winner is

Robbie Williams!

"Robbie Williams. 'Angels!'"

"Robbie Williams."

And we're prayin' it's not too late

It looked like

I possessed the golden ticket.

we're fallin' from grace

But when you become famous,

you become something other.

I'm getting a bit scared

by all the success and what's happenin'.

I dunno. It's all a bit too much

at the minute.

Especially becomin'

really, really famous again

and not knowin' who to trust.

It's weird 'cause my last memory

of being really, really famous

was being really, really sad with it.

So it's just about dealin'

with the fame in a different way now.

And I'm not dealing with it that good

at the minute.

You know, I've got

a couple of really good friends,

I think, now Well, I I know.

But then, you know, you just question

everybody else's intention

why they're with you,

why they're around you,

and why

they're listening so intently. You know.

Twenty-five and I've come alive

Twenty-one was the time I came undone

But doesn't everyone

Test recording.

Testing to see if the microphone

Oh no, we haven't even

plugged the microphone in.

What did they say in the papers?

Today, about you?

Uh, they said that um

What did they say? I'm self-destructive.

I don't know

how easy it is for people

to get to know me,

to be my friend, because

instinctively, I am

a loner.

So, those that manage it

have to be a special kind of person.

Yeah, and me and Guy

are getting on so well 'ere.

You know, we're we're we're definitely

we're definitely brothers in this moment.

You gonna be able

to do music without him?

Uh, no.

Okay. Aw.

I have a perfect scenario

where I write songs with somebody

who is one of, if not my best mate.

Do you know what I mean?

And we write great songs together.

And I you know,

I like writing melodies and lyrics.

I can't be arsed to learn how to play

the guitar or keyboards or whatever.

- Sorry. This much is true.

- This much is true, isn't it?

At the time,

we were in a band called Robbie Williams,

and we interlocked

and fitted perfectly musically.

On keyboards, Mr. Guy "Angels" Chambers.

We were liberated

in each other's company

and enjoyin' each other's company.

Rob? Stand there for a minute.

I wanna get you in front of the jet.

Liberated by the feeling

of success that we're havin'.

I think you look marvelous, darling.

Don't look so bad yourself.

And it's working

in Europe and the UK.

It's amazing. It's beautiful.

But in the States,

no one knows me.

So now we go out of the trenches

and into America.

Are you ready?

No!

Great.

From the global village

In the age of

This is ninety

- Ninety

- one?

one. Just as I joined Take That.

- I got some money to buy this album.

- Yeah?

I used to listen to it

comin' up on the train.

- Sounds great, doesn't it?

- Deee-lite

- Is this the first track?

- Yeah.

I bought it on tape.

'Cause I couldn't afford a CD.

Wow.

I couldn't afford the batteries

for the tape player.

- For the Walkman?

- No.

I was listening to this,

then having to sing "Do What U Like."

Yeah.

- A bit demoralizing.

- Mm.

But, hey Sat here in New York, aren't I?

- Eh?

- I'm sat here in New York.

New York City!

- In a penthouse.

- In a penthouse.

Deee-lite

Deee-lite

There is

a massive thing in Britain

about being British

and going conquering America.

At this point,

everywhere else in the world,

I have cachet,

and there is a understanding of who I am.

And here in America, I'm startin' again.

Well, to tell you

the truth, right, it's like this.

I haven't got

a f*ck' clue about America.

It kinda scares me

'cause it's so f*ck' big.

I would really love to break it here

and sell a lot of records,

'cause it'll piss a lot of people off

back home.

That's basically the gear.

That's what I wanna do.

Hello, America.

I've always wanted to say that.

Thank you very much for having me.

Here's a song about sex.

Wow, it's small.

I'm sure none of you know

who I am, so I'm very, very grateful

for you all coming down.

I'm Robbie Williams. This is my band.

Am I talkin' too freely?

number-one star in England

right now. Oasis opens for him.

Good morning, San Francisco.

I'm Robbie Williams.

I'm from England. I do well there.

I do not very well here, yet.

Just lie on your back

Baby, I'm crazy

Tell your friends, tell your neighbors.

Tell people you don't like even.

Do me a favor.

Amaze me

I feel

I'm going slightly mad.

I 'ave only had two hours sleep

in two days.

I think what may confuse

a lot of Americans is

kinda his cheeky humor,

which is very British.

A lot of Americans

don't get that style of humor.

Also, his songs,

he'll be saying in one line, "woe is me,"

the next line, "I'm a global superstar."

We don't get

all the jokes about his bum.

They had zero knowledge

or understanding of who I was.

And that was deeply uncomfortable.

- Wow.

- Yeah!

This is like

out of a Beatles movie. It's brilliant.

- Robbie Williams.

- Yeah, how you doin', all right?

- How many drinks have you had?

- I've had no

- No drinks?!

- I've had no drinks.

- I haven't drank for a long time.

- Gotta get him with the Jäger chicks.

We need to hook him up

with the Jägermeister chicks.

Believe me

He's a recovering alcoholic.

Leave him alone.

Robbie You shoulda

Okay, then that's not a good idea.

Yeah, it just felt

massive and impossible.

Are you ready?

- Eh?

- Are you ready?

I'm always f*ck' ready, man.

I'm always on. Always on. All I do is

There's this very

Northern English bloke

being a Northern English bloke.

Here we go.

So classy.

And there is

a disconnect.

I appear to be a bit resentful.

Robbie Williams hanging out with us.

How you doin'?

I'm really good, man.

I am. I am.

One song we played the heck out of

a couple years ago was "I Want You Back,"

you wrote with Take That,

which is an excellent song.

You know, that's a phase

of your life that is gone now or?

That's a phase of my life

that's definitely gone now.

Every time it's mentioned,

a part of me dies.

Just throws up.

You know, it's nice

because it's, like, very therapeutic

that you do mention this for me

every now and again.

Um, yeah. That's That

I was in Take That. Now I'm not.

Okay, that You certainly covered

the salient points on that one.

Tell us about the new CD.

What's goin' on with that?

The new CD is a collection

of of pop songs

written by my own fair hand,

with my number-one man,

Mr. Guy Chambers.

I wasn't in a good way.

It was exhausting.

Sh!

Don't scare the natives.

- I won't.

- All right then. Watch this.

Sh, sh, sh.

Sh, sh, sh, sh, sh.

Robbie, I thought

you were a good pop star,

but you're turning out

to be a very bad bloke.

Look at them. Look at them.

They even talk.

Watch. Watch. Watch as they talk.

We're being very nice to you.

- Hello!

- Hello!

- See.

- We're very nice Canadians.

It's like they know stuff.

- All the way!

- Robbie!

Robbie, I give you my hand!

I will go in if you don't remove

everything from the side now!

I'm sorry!

I wasn't very nice to those fans.

Suppose you could become quite numb to

Yeah, you become quite numb to that.

There's an overload of

take, take, take, take, take everywhere.

It's like I was afraid.

Waking up with a sense

of foreboding and anxiety.

I used to drink and do drugs

because it helped me not feel this way.

When you strip that away,

all the everything comes up

that you've been suppressing,

and at this point,

I'd been suppressing that for years.

I'm depressed.

I'm mentally ill.

He's the man who was

written off a has-been by the age of 22,

but Robbie Williams

has confounded all his critics,

and I suppose infuriated his, um,

less successful former bandmates,

to become the pop star of the moment.

He plays Slane tomorrow, and if his last

performance there is anything to go by,

a fantastic day is in store

for the 80,000 or so

who will descend on the small

County Meath town for the gig.

I thought that was sh*t!

Better.

Slane is, um,

three days away, and, um

and I'm really scared.

You've been in America this year.

This is one

of the first big kinda UK things.

What've you learned from America?

How excited are you as well?

- How excited am I?

- Yeah.

I've been in a black depression

for about the last five weeks

and came out of it last week.

So, um, I'm not excited

about very much at the minute, but, um

Nice, innit? Nice for you.

Um

But I'm doing me job.

I'm 'ere, and I'm doin' me job.

I really want to enjoy Slane,

but I'm really scared of it.

I'm scared of everything at the minute.

- Why?

- Why am I scared?

- You're great out there. Rocking it.

- Yeah, I know. That's

I was in bed

f*cking worryin' about it last week.

Wouldn't get out of bed.

Um Dunno. Dunno why I'm scared.

Just me confidence has left, and, uh

my job's all about confidence.

Guy, do you wanna come in as well?

From touring America,

kind of what did you pick up outta that?

That we had lots of work to do.

That we had lots of work to do,

and I'm not really that bothered.

- Bothered about America?

- Anythin'.

How do you deal with that?

Dunno. Uh

How do I deal with that? Uh

Just try and be a mate.

- Try and be a friend.

- That's a wank answer.

Try and be a friend. That's all I can do.

It's always good for songwriting

when Rob gets

You can tell

Guy's worried. He's concerned about me.

But also, at the same time,

there'll be a confusion for people

You know, he's not experienced

that kind of depression.

So I think it just confuses him.

I was looking for

more of a positive spin.

- No, not gonna get that.

- Just on the Slane thing.

- Sorry.

- Shall we do it again?

Do you want a really happy one?

No, I just want an honest one.

- Okay.

- D'you know what I mean?

Uh

- Looking forward to Slane?

- Definitely.

There's gonna be 80,000 people.

Biggest gig of my life.

It's gonna be a wonderful experience.

I just hope and pray

that it's good enough from both angles.

My side and their side.

You know, it's a huge event, and, um

it can only be good.

I was diagnosed

with depression

very early, maybe 22, 23.

Two miles out,

and these are the buses.

Wow.

But people at this point

still thought

that if good things are happening to you

and you're successful,

what's there to be upset about?

- Have a good show, Robbie!

- Cheers, mate.

I had to go on stage

in front of thousands of people,

feeling like you're on the 100th floor,

the room's burnin'

and you either stay in the room

and burn to death

or you jump out of the window

to your death.

It's that uncomfortable.

Robbie!

Hi, baby.

Come in!

- I can?

- Yeah.

For a little bit. Jump in. Spoon.

- Who's that?

- It's me.

Oh my God!

I always wanna feel this way

Just like a phoenix from the flames

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

I think I got that note! Brilliant!

Obviously, I'm not allowed to swear.

I can't say "sh*t" or "f*ck"

or anything like that

'cause the television's on.

But you all can!

I don't think

you should be watching this.

Yeah, I should stay.

No, you shouldn't.

And I think there should be

a Guinness Book of Records put aside

for the biggest collective

swearing session ever.

Grown-up stuff. You'll have to go, Boo.

Sorry. I would love you to be able

to watch all of this and be with me,

but it's not for your age.

One, two, three

f*ck!

Yeah! Very good!

Lead-in, three seconds.

And you've got speed.

Um, to start with, I think

you should say where and when this is.

Um

This is ten past six on the what of April?

- 12th.

- On the 12th of April.

Um

The year 2000.

At Hook End Studios.

I'm making a record.

It has been emotional.

It's been, "Ooh, I'm sad."

"Ooh, I need love."

Or "Ooh, I'm lonely."

But done in an upbeat way!

Having said that,

the first single off the album's

gonna be that commercial it scares me.

I don't know why it should scare me.

It's never scared me in the past, but, uh

I'm having real difficulties

with the lyrics as a party song.

And, uh, I d I'm not sure

whether to release that first

or release something else first

that's a bit more credible, if you like.

What do you go for? Money or credibility?

At this point, it's like,

we're doin' an album a year.

And I'm mentally coming up against

what and who Robbie Williams should be.

Do I really have to do this for a living?

- Wanna sing this?

- What is it?

- It's "Rock DJ."

- Sing what? I haven't got any lyrics.

- Write them, then.

- Okay.

Can I put "shite" in a song?

No, I don't think you should.

I don't like, "When I meet your mum,

I'll be quite polite."

Okay.

"Rock DJ" as a song

remained unwritten for 12 months.

Because it's cheeky chappy, sort of

Consider yourself at 'ome

Put your hands up

If you're with the man

- Can I kick it?

- Raise your hands.

And there's something

in me that just is going,

"No. I've done this."

I must've written this lyric out

20 times?

"Can you"

You know, I wanna write "Karma Police."

And I'm writing "Karma Chameleon."

Me with the floorshow

Kickin' with your torso

Girls getting high

And the boys even more so

Raise your hands

If you're not with a man

Can I kick it?

- Yes, you can!

- I got

But it was hugely successful.

Everybody!

I've got the gift

Gonna stick it in the goal

Time to move your body

I don't wanna rock, DJ

But you're making me feel so nice

When's it gonna stop, DJ?

'Cause you're keepin' me up all night

This huge success,

I suppose, is an incredible diversion.

But it's not healing anythin'.

Like, how difficult it was

to wake up and be in my head every day.

There is a safety in success.

You take that away,

"Who is this man?"

"What does he mean?"

And now it felt

like I was giving

more and more of myself away.

To the point where you're not somebody

that you recognize anymore.

I needed a break in

on-field activity

between the opposing sides in my head.

It is us!

- Welcome to the villa.

- Hi.

- Hello.

- Hello.

The wasted rock star awakes.

You look suitably wasted this morning.

- Do I?

- Yeah.

I go on holiday with Guy,

Emma, Guy's wife, and Geri Halliwell,

Ginger Spice off of the Spice Girls.

You've been very, very naughty.

Very, very naughty.

And until you behave,

you have to go in that boat.

It was

a very confusing relationship,

because she's a girl, I'm a boy.

We are very good friends

trying to sort out

the wreckage of the past.

That dinghy was punishing.

Go on, Guy.

It's being recorded. As we speak.

Just do it, mate.

It's only as high as the, um, springboard.

Where's he gone? There he is.

Hello!

Hello!

Hello.

All aboard

The family coach

It's leaving Bamville Road

Christmas, 1968

The Christmas when it snowed

Whilst on board the family coach

They were circling the moon

No one had been there before

And they were landing there in June

Hey, hey, family coach

My old family coach

You've gotta make the most

The most of your family coach

Our relationship starts

when I am in AA.

Like, you're told don't get

into a relationship for the first year,

and I get it, you know.

Can't even look after a cactus,

let alone somebody else.

- Can you see me in leopard skin?

- Yeah.

- Trashy but

- Trashy?

- Like, early '80s

- So, very me?

- No, no!

- Thanks.

- Early '80s

- Okay. I can do trashy.

I just found her company

very, very easy.

There is a silliness.

We really got on really well. It was fun.

And we were just a little g*ng

that are sharing a very magical moment

in a magical place.

- Hello.

- Hello.

- I'm Reg. And this is Peter.

- Peter.

Peter. Hello.

We're on holiday here in the Costa Brava!

Uh, we like

What music do we like?

We like Vengaboys.

We like the Vengaboys.

Also, I like, um

I like Victoria Beckham's new song.

- Do ya?

- Yeah!

- 'Cause, uh

- This track's gonna punish you.

- My hairdo will punish you!

- My hairdo will punish you.

Won't this be art? Isn't this art?

With the right music,

it could appear like art.

Put it behind it afterwards.

Tell us about what you do, Guy.

I write songs. With Robert.

Do you ever argue?

- About, like, a lyric? A "the"?

- No.

- No?

- Not much about songs, have we?

- No.

- No?

No, we've had a couple

of hairy moments, haven't we?

- That's good, though.

- Only

Not really.

You've lost it with me

a couple of times. You 'ave!

It's good 'cause it sieves out

How did he lose it with you?

I've never lost it with him.

I will lose it with him

How did he lose it with you?

It was over a stupid thing

on the second album.

- Yeah.

- Um

- Uh, the guitarist, Phil

- Yeah.

had a cowrite with Rob.

Uh-huh.

And, uh, he

he felt that It was gonna be recorded

for the second album.

- In the end, we didn't record it.

- Yeah.

I can't remember.

I was off me 'ead.

And Phil Phil complained to Rob that

He said He

He said that somebody else

was taking control of your album.

Really?

It isn't your album anymore.

Stirred the pot somewhat.

Then, next minute,

he was on the phone giving me

Really? He got wound up.

Yeah, 'cause he thought

that I was ignoring one of the songs.

- I wasn't. I just hadn't got to it.

- Uh-huh.

And what happened to it?

You binned it, didn't you?

- It's a B-side on "Rock DJ."

- Tell us, Guy

- It was a B-side, but, you know

- A B-side of what?

- Uh, the current single.

- "Rock DJ"?

We're now It's August, by the way.

- Ah yes, can you

- 2000.

You've got something to celebrate.

That's why you've got champagne.

Two things. Wedding anniversary and?

- We have a number-one single.

- How many did you sell?

I don't know.

- 200,000.

- 200,000.

Gonna be a nobody someday

I'm gonna be a nobody someday.

And that's great!

Gonna be a nobody

Someday

Take my castle and my island

Throw them both away

I wanna be a nobody

Sick of being somebody

I used to dream it all away

Don't wanna be a somebody

Happy being a nobody

Gonna be a nobody someday

Gonna be a nobody someday

- That was f*ck' wicked.

- Booyaka!

But for now

I'm a twisted genius

Then suddenly it goes

But for now

I'm a twisted genius

With a big p*nis!

And a villa

In the south of France

- Are you happy here?

- Yes.

Is this the first time

we've seen you happy?

Yes. In all of the footage.

Okay, so,

you know the title of this song?

Yeah.

- "I'm gonna be nobody someday."

- Yeah?

Is that what you want?

What is the meaning behind it?

Come on. Just Don't think about it.

What do you feel about it?

- I'm goin' up a mountain.

- Yeah.

- In the south of France.

- Yeah.

- It's really sunny.

- Yeah.

- That's really a heavy question.

- Come on! It's a heavy song

- Haven't even finished the song yet.

- We don't know what it's about.

Don't you think about

what it's about before you start?

- No, not really.

- No, we don't.

No.

I mean, it was It was definitely gonna be

about something when I first started it,

but it's turned into something else.

I don't know where it's finishin' yet.

So we don't know.

- Are you having a nice time, Guy?

- I'm having a great time, Geri.

- Are you, Robert?

- I'm having a lovely time.

Yeah?

They're our bodyguards behind us.

Can you put your seatbelt on,

Geri, please?

Why?

Is Guy scaring you?

- What about you?

- I know, I'm gonna get in the van.

Are ya?

Don't be such a wuss.

I sat in the back with no seat

- Well, that's up to you.

- Oh, okay, then.

Mr. Sensible. Well, good for you.

We all felt the same way about each other.

We were very fond of each other.

Very fond of Geri. Very fond of Guy.

I got them. They got me.

And it was just I was very comfortable

in their presence here.

Do you think sometimes

music is self-prophesizing though?

Yeah.

- What do you mean? In what sense?

- Well

Singing about, "I'm gonna be

a, uh a nobody someday."

- That's what he wants. In some ways.

- Yeah.

Back to anonym nimnity.

Nobody, as in

not this sort of

- This lifestyle?

- No, he wants the lifestyle.

But without being famous.

No, he wants the fame.

And he wants to be

I think he means "nobody"

as in somebody who's happily married.

- Wife, two kids.

- Uh-huh.

- That sort of

- Uh-huh. The everyman?

- Yeah.

- He wants to be the everyman.

He wants to be normal in that sense.

He's quite straight in some ways.

Find peace of mind.

Tranquility, which we all want.

What my new life

and profession has afforded me

The perks are incredible, obviously.

But there is still somebody

that is craving normality.

This isn't normal.

None of this is normal.

Geri.

English posse!

Hardcore. Geri. Nice one.

You can now never go back

and undo what you have done.

Cheers, mate.

Get in.

Watch yourself.

All right. Au revoir.

- She gettin' in 'ere?

- No, I'll get in the back.

I'll lock it for ya.

Okay.

- What a zoo.

- What a zoo.

You know,

I cannot be a nobody, 'cause

I'm somebody.

I suppose it's part of

coming to terms with

the life of normality

shattered.

There's people still here.

Get out here. Let's do it out here.

- It's nice being outside, isn't it?

- Yeah.

Freedom

Eternity

I said I'd write a song

for Geri, actually,

about everything that happened

on the holiday.

Okay.

You were there for summer dreamin'

You were there for all I need

That's good.

And I hope you find your freedom

- For eternity

- That's great.

That's great.

- Write that down.

- "You were there for summer dreamin'."

"You were there for what I need."

- That's true. That's it, isn't it?

- Mm-hmm.

"You were there for summer dreaming"

is really nice.

I had a friendship

with our Ginger that meant a lot to me.

In a time when I didn't have any

relationships that I felt

completely comfortable with.

But wherever we went,

the paparazzi were there

before we got there.

And very private, personal moments

became public property.

And we were just dumbfounded

how this could be happenin'.

I bumped into a guy who's a paparazzi.

He told me that it was Geri doing that.

Now, I don't think

that's true for one second,

but at the time, I did believe it.

It just goes to show

what being in the spotlight

can do to your psyche

when you can't trust anybody.

And I know you'll find your freedom

For eternity

For eternity

And it ruined,

in some way, the memory

of such an important part of my life

and such a joyous occasion.

For eternity

Big headline in the paper,

"He's in love with Geri."

You went on holiday,

of course, didn't you, when

after the last show,

to get away from it all.

You were followed

by about 300 paparazzi, weren't you?

Yeah. We were.

But it's nice

'cause it saves on photos, holiday photos.

The tabloids find out

about absolutely everythin'.

What's that helicopter doing?

Do you think that's a press helicopter?

You just don't know

where they are.

You don't know

what moment they're capturing.

Derek, it's Robbie Williams.

Listen, I just got the paper out here,

yesterday's paper,

and I thought it was really unfair.

Can I explain a few things to you?

I went out on a boat. I come back.

Sat to the left of me,

by my hotel, is a paparazzi man,

not givin' a sh*t

about my f*cking privacy.

This is obviously "stroppy"

because I went over

and told him what I thought about him.

The only person I've been stroppy to

is the man that came over

to take pictures of me.

You don't talk to them,

it does you no good.

You talk to them, and it does you no good.

You want to give away

the privacy that you want to give away.

You don't wanna have

your privacy taken from you.

You feel you are a sitting duck.

And there's nowhere to hide.

You'd wake up in the mornin',

open your curtains flash-flash-flash.

We are talkin' about an industry

that was tappin' phones.

People, half a mile away,

hidin' in a bush.

Six or seven carfuls

following me around everywhere I went.

All right?

Do you want to

just briefly introduce where we are?

Do I wanna introduce where I am?

Where we are? What, spiritually or

Yeah. Spiritually. No, physically.

Physically, we're in my back garden

in Los Angeles.

I went out to Los Angeles

to get away from the tabloids.

It was like a blessing.

I realized very quickly that

what I needed from America

wasn't to break it.

It was to heal me.

hard to swallow

Why wallow when ya come ta roll on

No one knows me here.

I turn on the television,

and my name's not mentioned.

The grown-up took charge

of the car that was drivin'.

And went, "This'll probably

save your life, actually."

"Let's move to Los Angeles,

have anonymity,"

and that's what I chose to do.

At the beginning of the year, I

I'd sort of had it with all things Robbie.

You were gonna

split Robbie Williams up?

Yeah, but we'd been together

longer than the Beatles.

You know. On this album, I have been

together longer than the Beatles.

It drives me insane

I'm just the same

The same

The same

The same

The same

You got the point.

I think, ultimately, I wanted

to do something different musically.

I wasn't getting my kicks anymore

from the set-up

that I had with me and Guy.

So, would you mind

beginning by telling me,

who are you?

What the hell are you doing here?

My name is Guy Chambers,

and I'm recording

the fifth Robbie Williams album.

How is your working relationship?

Think it's difficult

when I'm back in London,

and he's here, and

got all that sea between us.

It's hard to know where he is right now.

It's hard to communicate with him

these days.

I pray that when I'm coming down

You'll be asleep

It started

when I wrote "Come Undone,"

and I knew this was a great tune.

It goes on longer.

Only a little bit.

I think it's still a good track slow.

Okay.

I took it into Guy,

and he goes, "Mm, it's not very good."

And I'm like, "Oh, we've got a problem.

This is a problem."

I'm not sure

about the lyrics in the middle eight.

- Really?

- Yeah.

- Why?

- "There's a love"

- We can't change them, mate.

- Oh, we can!

- f*ck' gospel choir on tape.

- Really?

I mean, we can.

We'd have to get the choir in LA.

At huge expense.

- Should have asked me!

- Asked you what?

"How are you?" More often.

Well, you know,

I'll just have to live with it, I suppose.

It's only my album.

It's only there for the rest of time.

Oof.

Thinkin', "If only we'd just

talked a bit more to each other."

Shall we do another take, then?

When you're startin'

a band, you are a g*ng,

and it's you against the world.

But you lose chemistry.

I had a meeting with Guy and said, "Look,

I want you to come on tour with me

as a thank you,

but this is the last album

we're gonna do together."

And he melted.

And now there's a different Guy.

Maybe there's a different me too.

- Okay.

- What would you like me to do?

- What?

- What do you want me to do?

Well, I was thinking

you could do a harmony on "Feel."

Mm-hmm.

And then we do song three.

How do you

f*ck off! f*ck off!

f*ck off!

I'm sure Guy

consciously thought,

"We are a band called Robbie Williams."

I needed full control.

As much as possible.

Guy turned to me,

and he said, uh, "Well, you know, um

why don't you just go and sing it again,

and then we'll compile it,

and we'll do our best

with what you've got?"

- Translation

- "What we've got."

Yeah. "Why don't you go and sing it again,

then we'll compile it,

and see if we can make it

into a decent vocal."

"But to be honest with you, Rob,

we can't polish a turd."

That's the way you read it.

Well, how would you read it, Dave?

I'm staying out of this.

- Yeah?

- Oh yes.

"Can't polish a turd, Rob. Unfortunately."

I am scum

Love your son

Compile that, yer f*ck!

See if you can do your best with that!

I would say,

subconsciously,

if it ain't broke, then break it.

I must get you angry more often!

Hi! It's me in the vocal booth!

You're never gonna see this again!

- Hopefully not.

- One-time-only experience.

- Okay.

- I'm done with 'im.

Yeah, I'm done with 'im. Yeah.

Robbie Williams isn't saying much

about those claims

he's split up

with his main songwriting partner.

Guy Chambers is the man who worked

on hits like "Angels" and "Rock DJ."

- We caught up with him.

- Me mum says,

"If you haven't got anything nice

to say about somebody,

go to the News of the World."

I wish Guy all the best of luck.

I don't mean it with any sarcasm.

I love him to bits. I'm being straight.

- See you later.

- Robbie!

Please join me now

in welcoming Robbie Williams.

Hello.

Are you afraid of the time

after Guy Chambers,

writing songs on your own

or doing songs with another?

My partnership with Guy,

unfortunately, for the foreseeable future,

has come to an end

for reasons that I don't wanna get into

in front of everybody here.

Another thing that's come to pass

during all this Guy Chambers thing,

is because that I'm Robbie Williams

that has come from Take That, um,

nobody credits me with anythin'.

You know, people automatically assume

that a lion's share of it

is done by somebody else.

My name is Robbie Williams.

I write lyrics. I write melodies.

All of them.

And I occasionally write the music too.

You know, um it has pissed me off, that.

No,

there's no sadness there.

What happened after that?

Guy didn't make it

to the tour that I promised him.

There was nothing or no one

holding me back for the first time.

But somethin' is fractured.

Broken.

Can you tell me

what lies ahead of you?

The acute

breakdown of

me as a person.

Is it recordin'?

If I'm not mistaken

This is my heart breakin'

I'm the man who threw it all away

Destiny is callin'

Tellin' me to be borin'

And I don't care anyway

Gonna be nobody someday

Gonna be nobody

Someday

I'm a demon that you fear

I'm the joker, I'm the thief

I'm the lonesome cowboy ridin'

I'm the Indian chief

Gotta watch my figure

Boy, if I get much bigger

They'll stick a pin in me

And I'll blow away

But I'll get richer

While they take my picture

Takin' my soul away

Gonna be somebody someday

Gonna be nobody someday

I'm a moonlight serenade

I'm your bed when you are cold

I'm the captain of Titanic

I'm the passenger in the hold

From the way I'm thinkin'

We'll both be sinkin'

I knew before we sailed away