Robbie Williams
Niall Horan will once again line up in the Soccer Aid for Unicef annual charity match. The Irish singer faced off against his One Direction bandmate Louis Tomlinson at the 2016 tournament, with his team losing 3-2 to England. This year he is playing for the Soccer Aid World XI team against England. His teammates […]
David Bowie, Skepta and Craig David are up for some of the biggest prizes at the 2017 Brit Awards. Bowie received posthumous nominations for best British male and best album, for his haunting swansong Blackstar. After a row over diversity at last year’s ceremony, the rest of the best male category comprises artists from BAME […]
Robbie Williams may re-join Take That for a 25th anniversary album and tour, the band’s members have revealed. “We’ve been talking to Robbie about it,” said Howard Donald. “It might be that if we do a 25th anniversary album, that we do some co-writing or some extra tracks on that. In our minds at the […]
Robbie Williams and his wife Ayda Field say they will “strenuously” defend themselves against claims of sexual harassment from a former employee. Gilles De Bonfilhs, who was sacked for serious misconduct, has filed a US lawsuit alleging Ayda walked around half naked and asked him about sex. A spokeswoman for Williams says: “The claims are […]
‘ROBBIE did it almost as good as me!” says Lethal Bizzle after seeing Robbie Williams busting some moves inspired by his Fester Skank video. Robbie has been caught up in the Fester Skank craze, joining thousands of people who have already uploaded their own versions of the dance online. The former Take That star was […]
Rock music overtook pop in UK album sales last year, winning a bigger share of the market for the first time in five years. Rod Stewart’s Time was the best-selling album to be classified as rock by the Official Charts Company, followed by Arctic Monkeys and Bastille. In total rock accounted for 33.8% of album […]
Ellie Goulding’s second album has reached the top of the UK chart for the first time, more than a year after it was released. Halcyon, which came out in October 2012, features five top 40 singles, including her debut number one Burn. US rapper Pitbull scored the first number one single of the year with […]
Pharrell Williams saw out 2013 with his third UK number one single of the year, Happy, knocking X Factor winner Sam Bailey into second place. The 40-year-old previously topped the charts on Daft Punk’s Get Lucky and Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines, with writing credits on both. Happy, a feel-good pop song featured in the hit […]