Robbie Williams Rewind – Details, episodes & analysis

Christina from Denmark returns to tell us all about her experience watching Lufthaus make their debut performance on a UK stage at Creamfields.  Jocelyn from USA is back to explain how she was lucky enough to attend the world premiere of Robbie’s Better Man movie at Telluride Film Festival, as well as the Canadian premiere at Toronto Film Festival. Don’t worry, we don’t discuss any Better Man spoilers, except for the one big surprise that we think everyone knows by now!
 
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**About Robbie Williams Rewind**
Join husband and wife Matt and Lucy, as they rewind through legendary pop star Robbie Williams’ solo career. Each episode, they have a guest fan to help us relive Robbie’s incredible music and tours.
Visit: robbiewilliamsrewind.com to discover more episodes, track listings & photos!
Follow: @rewindrobbie on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter & TikTok.

We’re joined by Emma from the UK to discuss all of our favourite moments from Robbie’s incredible Hyde Park gig, including that special Danny Dyer duet! Emma explains what made her a fan and recalls her best memories from all the tours she’s attended.

We also review the four collaborations that Robbie has been a part of in the last 18 months: Sober with Lucy Spraggan, Punk’s Dead with SOFT PLAY, Une Tahitienne à Paris with Mareva Galanter as well as the Felix cat food advert song, It’s Great To Be A Cat.

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**About Robbie Williams Rewind**
Join husband and wife Matt and Lucy, as they rewind through legendary pop star Robbie Williams’ solo career. Each episode, they have a guest fan to help us relive Robbie’s incredible music and tours.
Visit: robbiewilliamsrewind.com to discover more episodes, track listings & photos!
Follow: @rewindrobbie on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter & TikTok.

On our 2nd birthday, we’re excited to share news of our Independent Podcast Award nomination!  To celebrate, we’re listening back to some of our favourite moments from more than 50 episodes. Hear some astounding, amazing and funny stories from Robbie’s co-writers, band members, producers and fans!

We also bring you all the latest Robbie news including Netflix, Spurs and Softplay, and we discuss the end of the European XXV tour/Sandringham.

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**About Robbie Williams Rewind**
Join husband and wife Matt and Lucy, as they rewind through legendary pop star Robbie Williams’ solo career. Each episode, they have a guest fan to help us relive Robbie’s incredible music and tours.
Visit: robbiewilliamsrewind.com to discover more episodes, track listings & photos!
Follow: @rewindrobbie on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter & TikTok.

We continue our interview with Rob’s A&R man, Chris Briggs, who’s worked continuously with Robbie from the very start of his solo career.

In this episode, Chris discusses Robbie’s career from 1998 to the current day. We cover the Swing albums, hear all about the fallout from the Escapology era, what happened when Robbie started writing Rudebox with Jerry Meehan before Intensive Care was even completed, the background to Reality Killed The Video Star and why XXV came about. Plus, we learn the hilarious story about the night Robbie first met Tim & Flynn which led to Take The Crown!

Chris offers his thoughts on why Robbie’s career has had such longevity and what it is that makes him so successful.

Chris has also worked with a plethora of other artists including ABC, Blondie, Def Leppard, Dire Straits, Big Country, Olly Murs, Laura Marling, Starsailor and Geri Halliwell. He won A&R of the year at the Music Producers Guilds Awards in 2016.
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**About Robbie Williams Rewind**
Join husband and wife Matt and Lucy, as they rewind through legendary pop star Robbie Williams’ solo career. Each episode, they have a guest fan to help us relive Robbie’s incredible music and tours.
Visit: robbiewilliamsrewind.com to discover more episodes, track listings & photos!
Follow: @rewindrobbie on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter & TikTok.

Today’s extra special guest has worked with Robbie longer than anyone else in his solo career. Chris Briggs has been Robbie’s A&R man since 1996, soon after he left Take That. Chris has been by Rob’s side even longer than his management. 

Chris shares never heard before stories about the launch of Rob’s solo career: how he came to work with Guy Chambers and the rest of his band, what happened when he went to Miami to work with Desmond Child, how Life Thru A Lens was recorded, and what many record company execs really thought of Robbie ‘pre-Angels’. We also hear which songwriter Rob failed to click with prior to Guy. Chris explains what A&R actually involves, and how he ended up in that role. 

Chris has also worked with a plethora of other artists including ABC, Blondie, Def Leppard, Dire Straits, Big Country, Olly Murs, Laura Marling, Starsailor and Geri Halliwell. He won A&R of the year at the Music Producers Guilds Awards in 2016.

You’ll be able to hear part two of this interview in our next episode.

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**About Robbie Williams Rewind**
Join husband and wife Matt and Lucy, as they rewind through legendary pop star Robbie Williams’ solo career. Each episode, they have a guest fan to help us relive Robbie’s incredible music and tours.
Visit: robbiewilliamsrewind.com to discover more episodes, track listings & photos!
Follow: @rewindrobbie on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter & TikTok.

On the 20th anniversary of Robbie’s incredible Knebworth shows, we have a special guest who was lucky enough to go backstage there! 

We’re joined by Anto Carroll, an Irish fan who took part in Robbie’s Pop Idol themed Something Beautiful video. He fills us in on what it was like to take part and how reaching the final few in the selection process led to him being invited to Knebworth! 

You can view all of Anto’s backstage photos on our social channels as well as our website. 

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**About Robbie Williams Rewind**
Join husband and wife Matt and Lucy, as they rewind through legendary pop star Robbie Williams’ solo career. Each episode, they have a guest fan to help us relive Robbie’s incredible music and tours.
Visit: robbiewilliamsrewind.com to discover more episodes, track listings & photos!
Follow: @rewindrobbie on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter & TikTok.

We’re thrilled to share our interview with award winning photographer Hamish Brown, who was Robbie’s chosen photographer from 1997 until about 2010. He was granted unique access to video shoots, tours and promotional campaigns. Hamish shot the record covers for Intensive Care, Swing When You’re Winning, Kids, Somethin’ Stupid and some versions of Angels. 

We hear what it was like to work closely with Rob and how Hamish captured some of Rob’s most iconic photographs, such as those from the video shoots of Angels, Feel, Kids, No Regrets, Millennium, Supreme, Somethin’ Stupid, Advertising Space and more.

A book was even released in 2000 “Robbie Williams: Photography by Hamish Brown” to raise money for the CancerBACUP charity, sharing the best B&W photographs from the first two years of Rob’s career.  Visit the episode page to look at each photo as we cover them during the episode: robbiewilliamsrewind.com

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**About Robbie Williams Rewind**
Join husband and wife Matt and Lucy, as they rewind through legendary pop star Robbie Williams’ solo career. Each episode, they have a guest fan to help us relive Robbie’s incredible music and tours.
Visit: robbiewilliamsrewind.com to discover more episodes, track listings & photos!
Follow: @rewindrobbie on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter & TikTok.

We’re so excited that we had the chance to interview Jerry Meehan, Robbie’s bass guitarist at his recording studio.

Jerry was kind enough to show us round his studio, Wendy House Productions, and tell us all about his time working with Rob.

We found out how Jerry came to be a part of Rob’s band, how The 80s, The 90s, Dickhead and Love Is You were written and what it’s been like to tour with Rob since 2006.

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**About Robbie Williams Rewind**
Join husband and wife Matt and Lucy, as they rewind through legendary pop star Robbie Williams’ solo career. Each episode, they have a guest fan to help us relive Robbie’s incredible music and tours.
Visit: robbiewilliamsrewind.com to discover more episodes, track listings & photos!
Follow: @rewindrobbie on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter & TikTok.

We’re very excited to be joined by Robbie’s first live drummer, Steve ‘Smiley’ Barnard, who was part of Rob’s band from 1997-1998 including during Rob’s first solo tour.

Smiley describes what it was like to work closely with Robbie during the Life Thru A Lens era and how they spent hours playing backgammon to help Rob’s sobriety. It’s even down to Smiley, that Rob’s band has its current lineup.

Smiley tells us all about the fun and unforgettable moments he experienced during the inception of Robbie’s incredible solo career. You definitely don’t want to miss this!

For more information on Smiley and his own music: smileysfriends.co.uk

Smiley’s book ‘Clang … Smiley Drops A Few’ is available on Amazon, for even more great stories! And hear about the multitude of musicians and bands Smiley has worked with over the years.  Follow him at @stevesmileybarnard on Instagram, @smileydrums on Twitter.

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**About Robbie Williams Rewind**
Join husband and wife Matt and Lucy, as they rewind through legendary pop star Robbie Williams’ solo career. Each episode, they have a guest fan to help us relive Robbie’s incredible music and tours.
Visit: robbiewilliamsrewind.com to discover more episodes, track listings & photos!
Follow: @rewindrobbie on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter & TikTok.

We’re rewinding back to the subject of our very first episode, Life Thru A Lens!  We’re joined by Ruben from New Zealand to discuss all the demos and unreleased tracks on the 25th Anniversary Edition of Robbie’s first album.  Ruben probably wins the award for being Robbie’s youngest ever fan! He explains how he became a fan aged 2, and what this meant for his language skills! He describes the unique toys he’d play with  and what he’d take to kindergarten with him! Now aged 21, Ruben is looking forward to seeing  Robbie live for the first time later this year.
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**About Robbie Williams Rewind**
Join husband and wife Matt and Lucy, as they rewind through legendary pop star Robbie Williams’ solo career. Each episode, they have a guest fan to help us relive Robbie’s incredible music and tours.
Visit: robbiewilliamsrewind.com to discover more episodes, track listings & photos!
Follow: @rewindrobbie on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter & TikTok.