Robbie Williams In Concert
In the 1990s, he was one of Britain's premier pop bad boys, riding his time in the mega-selling Take That into a hit-studded solo career. Today, Robbie Williams is one of the world's most celebrated pop artists, having notched six albums in the Top 100 best-selling U.K. albums of all time, achieved a Guinness World Record for most concert tickets sold in a single day, and released a slew of singles — from the sweeping 1997 ballad "Angels" to the cheeky 2012 banger "Candy" — that hit No. 1 on charts around the world.
Williams first became known to pop audiences as a member of the British boy band Take That, which he joined when he was 16. His swaggering presence and soaring voice added an edge to the Take That singles on which he sang lead, including their 1992 cover of the '70s pop classic "Could It Be Magic" and their 1992 soul-pop confection "I Found Heaven." Williams and Take That toured the world to massive audiences, but the singer felt dissatisfied, and he left the group in 1995. He launched his solo career with a cover of George Michael's "Freedom '90" a year later, and his 1997 solo debut Life Thru a Lens began his long-standing collaborative relationship with songwriter and producer Guy Chambers. Together, the two wrote the massive hit "Angels," which won a special BRIT Award for Best Single of the Past 25 Years in 2005, as well as the cheeky U.K. chart-toppers "Millennium" and "Rock DJ." In 2001 Williams' duet with Nicole Kidman on the classic pop tune "Somethin' Stupid" hit No. 1, and in the years that followed, he embraced a wide variety of music that could be filed as "pop," working with electropop pioneers like Pet Shop Boys and William Orbit on 2006's Rudebox and dipping into swing on two albums, 2001's Swing When You're Winning and 2013's Swings Both Ways.
Williams rejoined Take That in 2009, touring with the group on the 2011 Progress Live tour and popping in for the occasional show in the years that followed. He's also been focusing on his solo career, releasing the strutting The Heavy Entertainment Show in 2016 and announcing his first Las Vegas residency, Robbie Williams Live in Las Vegas, which goes up at the Wynn Las Vegas' Encore Theatre in March 2019.
