Article: The lean year Robbie took a [pounds sterling]15m pay cut.

Byline: JONATHAN PRYNN

He's coping on salary of just [pounds sterling]2m WHEN Robbie Williams signed the most lucrative music deal in British recording history he famously screamed: "I'm rich beyond my wildest dreams."

In the first year of the estimated [pounds sterling]80 million fivealbum contrac t , signed in October 2002, he received [pounds sterling]17.5 million.

Now it has emerged that t he forme r Take That singer has taken a vast pay cut during a "rest" between albums.

Accounts filed at Companies House reveal that Williams, 30, paid himself "only" [pounds sterling]2 million in the year to the end of March 2004.

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