#Robbie Williams

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Music 1998–1999

Millennium (Robbie Williams)

"We've got stars directing our fate" over sweeping James Bond strings — Robbie Williams' pre-2000 anthem gave him his first solo UK number one in September 1998. In America it was supposed to be his big breakthrough; it stalled at #72, which tells you the whole strange story of his career on this side of the Atlantic.

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Celebrities 1997–2006 peak

Robbie Williams

Around the year 2000 he was one of the biggest pop stars on the planet — record-breaking EMI deal, 375,000 people at Knebworth — and Americans only half-knew who he was. The Take That bad boy turned solo megastar is the great transatlantic asterisk of the era: everywhere, except here.