Robbie Williams on Leaving Take That and Going Out for a Year | Parkinson on BBC

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Robbie Williams arrives at Parkinson having won a double platinum disc for Angels, and having bought his mum a laser photo device asking Parky to pose with him for a still for her. He lets her. In this conversation with Michael Parkinson, he talks about what it felt like to write Angels himself and watch it get played at births, weddings and funerals, about Take That being run like a very well-organised cult where outside opinions were quietly discouraged, and about the year he left, went to London for New Year's Eve and didn't come back until New Year's Day a year later. He also talks about standing next to Tom Jones at the Brit Awards and deciding the only sensible response was to impersonate him. He also tells the story of being approached after a full day in a bar by a film director who did not recognise him, denying he was Robbie Williams, then changing his mind and demanding to speak to the organ grinder rather than the monkey. Legendary talk show host Sir Michael Parkinson's

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