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He’s been on strike for four months without anyone noticing… and now Robbie Williams has lost his drummer. And to add insult to serious injury, Chris Sharrock has joined Oasis, whose mainman Noel Gallagher once dismissed Rob as ‘the fat dancer from Take That’. After parting ways with Zak Starkey – son of ex-Beatle Ringo Starr – the Manc rockers approached Chris. Read the rest…

British pop singer Robbie Williams is collaborating with former blockheads star Chaz Jankel on his next album.
The Angels hitmaker is currently writing new material for a forthcoming LP and has enlisted the help of Jankel to give the tracks a funky edge.
Jankel was behind the Blockheads’ 1978 smash single Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick, along with late frontman Ian Drury.
Although Williams has no plans to release an album any time soon, he is determined to carry on writing new material for his comeback record.
A source tells British newspaper The Sun, “Robbie and Chaz have been working on some great stuff. Out of all his new tunes, the Chaz stuff is the best.
“Currently his problem is that he has lots of music that he’s worked on with various people. It all sounds very different so it doesn’t sit well as an album.” Williams recently rejoined his former songwriting partner Guy Chambers but insists it was a one-off.
The source adds, “The big reunion with Guy was a real let down. They just couldn’t reignite that spark.”

Robbie Williams is reportedly planning a huge musical comeback in 2008.

The singer – who recently came to the end of his four-year recording deal with EMI – is said to be so jealous of his former Take That bandmates success he is plotting his revenge by planning a comeback of his own.

A source close to the singer said: “Things haven’t been going that well for Robbie recently and he’s been having a bit of a break from recording. Read the rest…

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Robbie Williams may quit his record label EMI after he completes his final studio album for the company, his manager has suggested.

The singer signed a record £80m deal with the label in 2002 to produce four albums for the company.

“I would be very wary about signing him to any major label at the moment,” Tim Clark told the Daily Telegraph.

The singer has been with the company for a decade and remains one of the label’s biggest-selling acts.

Mr Clark refused to comment on the performer’s current contract terms, but said “all options” were open once Williams has completed his obligations.

Negotiations

The singer is also contracted to release a best-of compilation.

Since 2002, Williams has released three albums: Escapology (2002), Intensive Care (2005) and Rudebox (2006).

A fourth album, Let’s Swing Again, is due for release in February 2008.

Williams will be the first major pop act to come up for renegotiation under EMI’s new owner, private equity giant Terra Firma.

Mr Clark’s comments suggest Williams could follow in the footsteps of Paul McCartney and Radiohead, who have both left EMI in the past two years.

He said the internet offered artists opportunities without the need for record labels.

“What we really don’t want is the dead hand of multinationals throttling these brilliant opportunities,” Mr Clark said.

‘Devaluing music’

Radiohead’s Thom Yorke criticised EMI last week on BBC Radio 4′s Front Row.

“When you’re in a situation like this with shareholders, private equity firms, it looks at music as something to buy and sell on, that it’s inorganic, that it’s something that can be valued and devalued,” he said.

“Companies buying and selling themselves and seeing the artists work as simply part of their stock is devaluing music – if anybody’s responsible for devaluing music, it’s them.”

Sir Paul McCartney also branded his former label “boring” last week in a newspaper interview, citing it as a reason for why they parted company.

EMI declined to comment. (source: BBC.co.uk)

Kylie Minogue is set for a blast from the past. And the lucky man in question? Robbie Williams.

Rob and Kylie are apparently in talks to arrange a dazzling comeback performance for next year’s Brit awards. Britain’s The Sun revealed that organizers are hoping to score a double whammy with the duo, who recorded the hit “Kids” together in 2000.

The idea is said to be that Robbie will join Kylie onstage by rising up from a coffin to symbolize his resurrection from the dead. Metaphorical pop-related dead, that is.

50 Cent has reportedly said that he would love to duet with Robbie Williams.

The rapper said the pop star was supposed to make a guest appearance on his forthcoming album ‘Curtis’, but their busy schedules made it impossible.

According to Dotmusic, 50 Cent said he’s still very keen to duet with the ex-Take That frontman, and would seize the opportunity if it arose, reports Loaded.

50 Cent’s new album is due out tomorrow (September 11). He might miss the chance to duet with Williams if he retires from music, as he said he would if his new album sells fewer copies than Kanye West’s ‘Graduation’, also due out tomorrow. (nme.com)

He was criticised, laughed at and flat out told that white boys from Stoke shouldn’t rap. Now Robbie Williams is having the last laugh. Rudebox, the song that saw Williams panned by critics, has been nominated for an Ivor Novello songwriting award. Released last year, Rudebox was a new sound for the singer and it went down like a lead balloon. Not only was the single roasted, the album Rudebox failed to sell as expected and was named the worst album of the year at the NME Awards.

Recently out of rehab, Williams will no doubt be pleased to hear of his nomination in the International Hit of the Year category. He is up against Madonna and her single Sorry and the Scissor Sisters’ hit I Don’t Feel Like Dancin’. Other nominations for the songwriting and composing awards include Amy Winehouse for Rehab and Arctic Monkeys for When the Sun Goes Down. Casino Royale has been nominated for Best Original Film Score. The awards will be held at The Grosvenor House hotel in central London on May 24.

V. Schmidt / timesonline.co.uk