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Article: Close encounters with As Robbie Williams kicks off the British leg of his Close Encounters tour tonight in Glasgow, Nicola Barry and Wil Marlow take a behind- the-scenes look at what goes into putting on such a huge live show
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- Press and Journal, The Aberdeen (UK)
- Article date:
- September 1, 2006
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As Robbie Williams kicks off the British leg of his Close
Encounters tour tonight in Glasgow, Nicola Barry and Wil Marlow take
a behind-the-scenes look at what goes into putting on such a huge
live show
Crooning is about reassurance, about soothing the savage breast.
Real crooners can rework old favourites or invent brand-new ones.
Robbie Williams comfortably straddles all generations. He is as
happy with an old sound as he is with the new.
He can stand there, in posh white dinner jacket and impeccable
gold cufflinks, in some smoke-filled nightclub and carouse with the
best of them.
He can - just as easily - slip into jeans and a white shirt and
rock the night away with an audience of ...