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Robbie Williams review – slick and saucy end-of-the-pier pop
The set is a musical memoir, from Take That, through rebellion (including a version of Blur’s Parklife with Danny Dyer), struggles with addiction and later contentment
In his recent self-titled Netflix documentary, Robbie Williams looks back at his storied life and career with the candour and acceptance of a man who has spent a lot of time in expensive therapy. Tonight’s set in Hyde Park – a one-off UK festival date for the British Summer Time series – is similarly framed as the story of a star who flew too close to the sun, coming down to earth and finding peace there. To represent the 1995 trip to Glastonbury when he shed his boyband trappings for good, he performs a series of Britpop covers, among them a bizarre but joyous take on Parklife by Blur, complete with a marching band and Danny Dyer doing the Phil Daniels part.
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