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[quiz show host] <i>That'll be true or false.</i>

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<i>The "Ali" of the title
is the Welsh football manager?</i>

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- [guest] <i>False.</i>
- [host] <i>Yes. Two points scored.</i>

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<i>And finally, to Carl...</i>

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[Robbie Williams] Last night,
in the middle of the night, I got up.

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[host] <i>Yes, two points.
A total of six to the reds!</i>

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[cheering on TV]

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[Robbie] I'd been awake all night.

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[host] <i>Great! Now over to the yellows
to do the spinning.</i>

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[Robbie] When it comes time to sleep,
my body goes, "We're not!"

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"We're not."

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[pensive music playing]

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Four hours of just tossing
and turnin' and...

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dealing with an amorphous blob of stuff.

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[man] Fancy doing a bit of singing?

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[Robbie] Fear.

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[camera clicks]

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Shame.

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Pain.

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The whole gamut of

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human emotions.

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I'm nearly 50.

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I'm a dad, dad of four,
with a loving wife.

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It's astounding
what's happened in my life.

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But it feels as though
the past has me in a headlock.

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- [crowd chanting] Robbie! Robbie!
- [Robbie] Something has to give.

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[music intensifies]

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[music fades]

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[a cappella version
of "Let Me Entertain You" playing]

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[vocalizing]

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[vocalizing continues]

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[Robbie] Go on, buddy! You can do it!

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Come on!

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[music and vocalizing continues]

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- [man 1] You good?
- I'm fuckin' good at this!

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[crowd screaming]

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[Graham Norton] One of the biggest-selling
solo artists of all time.

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[Jonathan Ross]
One of the greatest showmen.

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[man 2] ...platinum albums, sell-out gigs...

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Keep telling me I'm fuckin' great.

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Off me fucking tits.

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[cheering]

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Would anybody like to see me fight Liam?

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See if you can do your best with <i>that!</i>

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<i>♪ You're my rock of empathy, my dear ♪</i>

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[music fades out]

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[original song fades in]

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<i>♪ Come on, let me entertain you ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Let me entertain you ♪</i>

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I'm fucking Robbie Williams.

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- [young Robbie laughs]
- [cheering]

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- [music ends]
- [birdsong]

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[children shout and laugh]

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[gentle instrumental music playing]

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[Robbie] I am trying to sort out
the wreckage of the past.

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And I'm picking a rather particular way
to exorcise these demons right now.

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[man 1] Why are we doing it here?

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[Robbie] I'm a hermit.
If I'm not on stage, I'm in bed.

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- [man 1] That's why we're here.
- [man 2] Yeah.

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[Robbie laughs] Yeah.

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Can we just... Can we start?

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[laughs]

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[muffled speech on video]

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[Robbie] When I was a kid,
I was kinda like thick.

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Can't spell.

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I can't add up or subtract.

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[man] Tape is rolling.

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[Robbie] I left school at 16
with no qualifications whatsoever

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and joined a boy band

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that's gonna be the English version
of New Kids on the Block.

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[man] Four, three, two, one.

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<i>♪ Come on, come on, come on, come on
Take that and party ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Come on, come on, come on, come on
Take that ♪</i>

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["Take That and Party" continues playing]

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[crowd whistling, cheering]

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[reporter] Fantastic!

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Wow, the crowd loved you!
How long have you been together?

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- About two months.
- Two months.

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[reporter] Did you all dance beforehand?

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Well, I didn't do much dancin'.
Just, like, local discos and everythin'.

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But I did enough
to keep up with these lot.

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- [laughter on video]
- [video stops]

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Fuckin' 'ell.

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Look at me!

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I look very young.

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You know, I was the baby of the band.

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<i>♪ Come on, come on, come on, come on
Take that and party... ♪</i>

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[Robbie] I enjoyed everybody's company.

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In my head, I'm looking up to these
older brothers that are, like, 20, 21, 22.

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When you're 16, that's... that gap's huge.

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- [ "Do What U Like" playing]
- [cheering]

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[Robbie] I couldn't help
but be in awe of Gaz.

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He was the captain of the ship.

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How many songs
have you actually got together now?

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We've got probably about 30 tracks in all.

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Every week, Gary's coming in
with new material.

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We're doin' new dances all the time.

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<i>♪ Do what you like ♪</i>

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<i>♪ No need to ask me ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Do what you want... ♪</i>

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[Robbie] In the early days of Take That,
it was fun.

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<i>- ♪ ...what you like ♪
- ♪ No need to tell me ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Do what you want... ♪</i>

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The joy and the excitement,
the exhilaration.

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<i>- ♪ Ice ♪
- ♪ Could never be as cold... ♪</i>

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It felt like this was all going somewhere.

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<i>♪ You stir me up inside... ♪</i>

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It felt big!

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And then it became massive.

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Okay, so it's pretty quiet now,

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but you should've been here
20 minutes ago.

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- [crowd screaming]
- [ "Could It Be Magic" playing]

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They are the hottest young band
anywhere in the UK.

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...most popular British group
since the Beatles.

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- [screaming]
- Take That!

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<i>♪ Every time I'm near you ♪</i>

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[screaming]

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<i>♪ Whirling like a cyclone in my mind... ♪</i>

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These girls say
they've had the best night of their lives.

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<i>- ♪ You're my lifeline ♪
- ♪ Whoa, whoa... ♪</i>

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[Robbie] Our success did give
some sort of sense of...

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"Hey!"

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<i>♪ Answer to all answers I can't find... ♪</i>

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[Robbie] But it was always intercut with...

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"Whoa." [murmurs uncertainly]

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[crowd screaming]

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<i>♪ Come into my arms... ♪</i>

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[TV host] You're on bedroom walls
across Britain,

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and you get mobbed wherever you go.

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Do you still enjoy it?

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[young Robbie] It's still enjoyable,

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and it's like, um,
I wake up in the morning pinchin' meself.

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"Is this really happening?" and

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it isn't.

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[laughter]

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- We're not 'ere really, are we?
- No, we're not.

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<i>♪ Baby, I want you ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Come ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Come ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Come into... ♪</i>

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[current Robbie] Externally, I'm sure
that I would've been full of bravado

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and trying to look as though
I think I'm the man.

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<i>♪ ...of all of you ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Could it be magic now... ♪</i>

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It was a complete

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dunking

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into the grown-up... world

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that I wasn't ready for.

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[screaming, whistling]

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Thank you and good night!

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[crowd screaming]

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The workload was

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relentless.

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[screaming continues]

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We do this.

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Then we get to there.

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There was no five minutes in front of us.

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[screaming continues outside]

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Reason they're screaming
is 'cause Elvis is 'ere as well.

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Got to go and do an interview now
for Radio 1.

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We'll hopefully have lots of fun.

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[DJ] It is a very special <i>Rockland</i>
this afternoon.

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As we promised a few weeks ago,

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we have the members, all five members,
of Take That in the studio.

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Gary and Howard
and Jason and Robbie and Mark.

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It's been going very well. Congratulations
for the chart success you've had.

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How does it affect your everyday life
when you get up in the morning?

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To speak the truth, and this is honest,
I wake up some mornings and think,

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"Where am I, what do we do,
and what's me name?"

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Who are you, what do you do,
and what <i>is</i> yer name?

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I'm Robbie.

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<i>I am in Take That, and I sing and dance.</i>

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It was an unusual scenario to be in.

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In a very intense

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background atmosphere and surrounding.

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That is a pressure cooker.

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Without meaning to brag, it's been...
it's been going good for us,

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so it could end for us, like, at anytime,
and then all the people we laugh at--

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[Robbie] I'm still down to earth
and humble.

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No, you're not! You're...

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You're downright arrogant
and... and blasé and...

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- Downright arrogant, yeah.
- I'm not.

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You are.

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[tense music playing]

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[current Robbie] When I turned about 19,

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I started to have a long, hard think
about what was happenin'.

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[screaming]

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Too many interviews,
too many performances,

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so many countries to visit,
and then repeat it.

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Mark's been up since half past five,

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and I've been up
since about quarter to six, six o'clock.

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And we can't go to sleep. Jet lag.
Who needs it? D'you know what I mean?

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Take That's fandom was obsessive.

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[screaming]

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[current Robbie] It was intense!

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[man] Step!

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[Robbie] On top of that,

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there was an assurancy
about Gaz and his ability

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mixed with

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a coldness.

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This is me prize lyric book, this is,
and it's really strange to look through.

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It's got all the songs I've ever written.

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Every now and again,
you'll find a little star next to it,

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which means it's gone on an album.

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That'll do me!

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[Robbie] And it seemed like

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there was one person being managed
in Take That, and it was Gary Barlow.

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It was all geared around him.

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[fans screaming]

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And as a young person,
I would've been jealous of that.

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I suppose a lot of me resented him.

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- [long beep]
- [static crackles]

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One, two, three.
"Hi, we're Take That." Okay?

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- You're gonna do it.
- Okay.

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Hi, I'm Rob. I'm good.
Watch this space for more of the same.

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[Jason laughs]

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Ready. I'll do it.

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- It's good.
- Gaz, do you wanna sit at the front?

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[Mark laughs]

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[current Robbie] I was goin' home
from these days thinkin', "This is weird."

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"Uncomfortable."

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It's <i>Lord of the Flies</i> stuff.

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Rock and roll.

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[current Robbie] I wasn't adept

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at dealing with the dynamics in the band
at such an early age.

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And that's when the wheels came off

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for me.

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[background laughter]

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[posh voice] People do tend to see us
as the boys next door,

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and we still are, funnily enough.

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We just happen to be
the boys next door for the Lord Lichfield.

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[laughs]

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Jacuzzis and outside ser--

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Boy? Boy!

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Oh, thank you very much.

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Went out last night.
Didn't get in until six o'clock.

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But, you know,
do it while you're young, don't ya?

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Uh, as I say,
really enjoying ourselves, so...

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- I've gotta get some booze!
- Obsessed.

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[Gary] Aw, don't.
You've started this bastard now!

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[current Robbie] Adding petrol
to the fire,

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I was ingestin' everything
that I could get my hands on.

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Ecstasy, cocaine, drinking.

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Couldn't eat a whole one! Wahey!

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I'm literally drinking,
like, a bottle of vodka bef... a night

246
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before going into rehearsals.

247
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Um...

248
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So that's happenin'.

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That's happenin' every night.

250
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[crowd screaming]

251
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There was meetings that were had <i>with</i> me

252
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where... "we need you to behave" meetings.

253
00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:05,996
What's the best thing about being here?

254
00:13:06,080 --> 00:13:09,276
Um... People not expecting me to be 'ere,

255
00:13:09,360 --> 00:13:11,476
and the reaction on their faces
when they see me.

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[woman] Go behind him
like a Glastonbury nutter.

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[Robbie] It's a Glastonbury nutter.

258
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It's one of them people
that get on <i>It'll be Alright...</i>

259
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<i>It's Alright on the Night</i> thing.

260
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[current Robbie] It may have been seen
by management

261
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that I was letting the side down.

262
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Especially when I went to Glastonbury.

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Anarchy.

264
00:13:27,280 --> 00:13:29,280
[pensive music playing]

265
00:13:32,880 --> 00:13:37,440
[current Robbie] I was told, "This is not
how you behave in a boy band."

266
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Actually got nothing interesting
whatsoever to say.

267
00:13:41,960 --> 00:13:43,480
Which is quite un... uh...

268
00:13:44,640 --> 00:13:46,000
quite a bit disturbin'.

269
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[current Robbie] The sense that, um,

270
00:13:50,080 --> 00:13:53,520
I wasn't ready
or capable to fulfill the role

271
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that was being asked of me was palpable.

272
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One day, I went in for rehearsals,

273
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and then at lunchtime, they said,
"Rob, we need to have a band meeting."

274
00:14:10,760 --> 00:14:14,080
I said to the boys
I just couldn't be there anymore.

275
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Then they said, "Look, we wanna see
if we can do this tour as a four-piece."

276
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"What do you think?"

277
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And in the end,

278
00:14:24,640 --> 00:14:27,760
you know, "What do you think?"
was me deciding to

279
00:14:29,160 --> 00:14:30,400
leave Take That.

280
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[music fades]

281
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Finally, tonight, the band minus one.

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Take That are arguably Britain's
most successful group since the Beatles,

283
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but when they arrived today
to record for the BBC's <i>Top of the Pops,</i>

284
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there were just four of them.

285
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["Back for Good" playing]

286
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[reporter] Is anybody angry with Robbie?

287
00:14:54,920 --> 00:14:56,316
[all shout] Yes!

288
00:14:56,400 --> 00:14:59,796
[reporter] Would you listen to his music
if he does a solo career?

289
00:14:59,880 --> 00:15:03,076
- No.
- <i>♪ Got a head of shattered dreams ♪</i>

290
00:15:03,160 --> 00:15:04,440
<i>♪ Gotta leave it... ♪</i>

291
00:15:05,120 --> 00:15:06,640
[man] Did you have a plan?

292
00:15:07,600 --> 00:15:10,320
[current Robbie] I think the... the plan was

293
00:15:11,520 --> 00:15:12,720
"Let's get wrecked."

294
00:15:13,240 --> 00:15:14,916
[punk version of "Back for Good" playing]

295
00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:18,876
<i>♪ Whatever I said, whatever I did
I didn't mean it ♪</i>

296
00:15:18,960 --> 00:15:21,236
<i>♪ I just want ya back for good ♪</i>

297
00:15:21,320 --> 00:15:23,316
<i>♪ I want you back, I want you back... ♪</i>

298
00:15:23,400 --> 00:15:26,316
[current Robbie] I moved to London
as a famous 21-year-old,

299
00:15:26,400 --> 00:15:28,796
and I'm just going to parties
all the time.

300
00:15:28,880 --> 00:15:31,680
<i>♪ I'll sing it... ♪</i>

301
00:15:32,840 --> 00:15:34,120
I had no direction.

302
00:15:34,840 --> 00:15:36,080
No reason to be.

303
00:15:38,160 --> 00:15:41,760
I'm losing a lot of days to hangovers.

304
00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:44,636
[music distorts]

305
00:15:44,720 --> 00:15:46,636
[music fades out]

306
00:15:46,720 --> 00:15:48,760
Losing a sense of self.

307
00:15:50,880 --> 00:15:53,236
Turnin' into something
that you don't recognize.

308
00:15:53,320 --> 00:15:55,320
[distant screaming]

309
00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:00,200
Wanted to make somethin' of myself.

310
00:16:01,240 --> 00:16:03,120
Achieve somethin'. Be someone.

311
00:16:06,120 --> 00:16:08,200
But there's nothing that I'm doing.

312
00:16:09,120 --> 00:16:10,960
I was just in Groucho doin' a lotta coke.

313
00:16:11,920 --> 00:16:14,356
[woman] What would you do
if you weren't a musician?

314
00:16:14,440 --> 00:16:15,760
- [Robbie] Uh...
- Be a footballer?

315
00:16:17,560 --> 00:16:20,120
I dunno, actually.
Probably be a pig farmer.

316
00:16:21,080 --> 00:16:24,476
[current Robbie] I needed somebody
to help me with the thoughts and melodies

317
00:16:24,560 --> 00:16:26,080
that I have in my head.

318
00:16:29,360 --> 00:16:30,516
[gentle music playing]

319
00:16:30,600 --> 00:16:35,200
<i>♪ Ooh ♪</i>

320
00:16:36,280 --> 00:16:41,360
<i>♪ Ooh ♪</i>

321
00:16:41,880 --> 00:16:46,120
<i>♪ Ooh, ooh ♪</i>

322
00:16:48,400 --> 00:16:49,796
[interviewer] So, who <i>are</i> you?

323
00:16:49,880 --> 00:16:51,720
Who am I? I'm Guy. And I'm, uh...

324
00:16:52,600 --> 00:16:55,800
uh, Rob's MD and producer.

325
00:16:56,800 --> 00:16:58,436
[interviewer] So what does that involve?

326
00:16:58,520 --> 00:17:01,196
Mm. You haven't got...
How much film have you got?

327
00:17:01,280 --> 00:17:03,600
["South of the Border" playing]

328
00:17:06,480 --> 00:17:09,920
- [Guy] No rest for the wicked.
- [Robbie] No rest for the <i>wicked!</i>

329
00:17:13,560 --> 00:17:15,916
<i>♪ Freaky young lady
Name of Cocaine Katie ♪</i>

330
00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:18,396
<i>♪ She makes my temperature freeze... ♪</i>

331
00:17:18,480 --> 00:17:20,356
[current Robbie] I set out
to make an album,

332
00:17:20,440 --> 00:17:22,116
but I didn't know how I was gonna do it.

333
00:17:22,200 --> 00:17:24,400
<i>♪ She'll bring you to your knees ♪</i>

334
00:17:25,360 --> 00:17:28,236
[current Robbie] There was a list
of people that was sent to me,

335
00:17:28,320 --> 00:17:30,800
and one was Guy Chambers,
and I went, "Him."

336
00:17:31,680 --> 00:17:34,276
He was a jobbin' musician

337
00:17:34,360 --> 00:17:39,116
considering becomin' a teacher
'cause things were drying up.

338
00:17:39,200 --> 00:17:44,080
Apart from the leak in his roof,
which he had and couldn't pay to be fixed.

339
00:17:45,600 --> 00:17:47,516
So, we really needed each other.

340
00:17:47,600 --> 00:17:49,076
<i>♪ I think you oughta ♪</i>

341
00:17:49,160 --> 00:17:53,880
<i>♪ 'Cause you know
you're gonna have to leave ♪</i>

342
00:17:55,080 --> 00:18:00,480
<i>♪ To a place where you can breathe ♪</i>

343
00:18:01,520 --> 00:18:08,476
<i>♪ And you know there's no reprieve... ♪</i>

344
00:18:08,560 --> 00:18:12,480
[holds note]

345
00:18:14,880 --> 00:18:16,960
[music fades]

346
00:18:17,880 --> 00:18:19,236
- Good t... Good takes?
- Yeah.

347
00:18:19,320 --> 00:18:20,876
- Good takes?
- Yeah. Very good.

348
00:18:20,960 --> 00:18:23,440
- You should have a little break now.
- Great. Tell 'em.

349
00:18:24,520 --> 00:18:27,236
Have a little break.
A walk up the street or something.

350
00:18:27,320 --> 00:18:28,600
Might want a coat.

351
00:18:29,760 --> 00:18:31,996
[Robbie] I think I'll have
a sit down, actually.

352
00:18:32,080 --> 00:18:32,996
Okay.

353
00:18:33,080 --> 00:18:35,800
On account of
standing up has made me sick.

354
00:18:36,600 --> 00:18:38,480
Sitting down has made me great.

355
00:18:39,680 --> 00:18:42,276
[current Robbie] <i>Life thru a Lens,</i>
which was the first album,

356
00:18:42,360 --> 00:18:44,800
was written in 12 days, when I found Guy.

357
00:18:45,560 --> 00:18:50,200
And... I thought
we had created something of worth.

358
00:18:55,480 --> 00:19:01,040
But we are looking
at somebody in free fall.

359
00:19:01,920 --> 00:19:03,920
[tense music playing]

360
00:19:05,040 --> 00:19:07,800
Addicted to cocaine and alcohol.

361
00:19:12,680 --> 00:19:16,160
It's impossible to help myself.

362
00:19:17,840 --> 00:19:19,320
It's impossible to stop.

363
00:19:21,040 --> 00:19:22,040
[Guy] You all right?

364
00:19:24,680 --> 00:19:27,120
- [Robbie] Fine.
- [laughter]

365
00:19:30,360 --> 00:19:34,680
I don't think there's a chance
to feel anythin' other than hungover.

366
00:19:35,880 --> 00:19:36,920
And then

367
00:19:37,840 --> 00:19:40,080
not hungover because you are

368
00:19:41,720 --> 00:19:44,720
yet again in the process of, um,

369
00:19:45,240 --> 00:19:46,836
creating a future hangover.

370
00:19:46,920 --> 00:19:49,476
- [background chatter]
- [woman] I'm drunk as a skunk.

371
00:19:49,560 --> 00:19:50,516
[laughter]

372
00:19:50,600 --> 00:19:54,196
I sound... I sound brilliant
after that many glasses.

373
00:19:54,280 --> 00:19:57,516
- [woman] We've done well. Hurrah!
- Hurrah!

374
00:19:57,600 --> 00:19:58,800
[woman] More pineapple!

375
00:19:59,480 --> 00:20:01,756
[Guy] I mean, I knew when I met him,

376
00:20:01,840 --> 00:20:04,796
he was drinking, and he had the shakes.

377
00:20:04,880 --> 00:20:07,720
He was so on the edge and, um,

378
00:20:08,320 --> 00:20:09,156
you know...

379
00:20:09,240 --> 00:20:10,236
[interviewer] Challenging?

380
00:20:10,320 --> 00:20:11,756
Yeah. Of course.

381
00:20:11,840 --> 00:20:14,040
It's really... It's really challenging.

382
00:20:18,360 --> 00:20:19,200
[Guy] Fuck.

383
00:20:19,800 --> 00:20:20,640
[Robbie] Fuck.

384
00:20:21,960 --> 00:20:26,960
[current Robbie] I think
this is the most difficult bit to watch.

385
00:20:28,600 --> 00:20:31,156
Because of... [sighs]

386
00:20:31,240 --> 00:20:33,160
...what I'm putting myself through.

387
00:20:36,920 --> 00:20:39,356
[young Robbie] The last 12 months,
I've just sort of

388
00:20:39,440 --> 00:20:42,316
lost meself into oblivion
of I don't know what.

389
00:20:42,400 --> 00:20:46,556
And, uh, finding it difficult
doing interviews at the minute.

390
00:20:46,640 --> 00:20:50,480
Only 'cause I'm not sure of what I should
and shouldn't be saying about things.

391
00:20:52,240 --> 00:20:55,800
And I'm just havin'... I'm having so many...
so many doubts about meself.

392
00:20:57,960 --> 00:21:00,640
I completely don't like
my own company at the minute.

393
00:21:02,200 --> 00:21:04,076
[host] <i>Robbie Williams in the studio!</i>

394
00:21:04,160 --> 00:21:06,956
<i>- Did I mention my new single's out?</i>
- [host laughs]

395
00:21:07,040 --> 00:21:08,636
- <i>How are you?</i>
- <i>Did I mention my new...</i>

396
00:21:08,720 --> 00:21:10,876
<i>Yes, I'm very well. Let's put this here.</i>

397
00:21:10,960 --> 00:21:12,596
- <i>I'm very well, and how are you?</i>
- <i>Yeah?</i>

398
00:21:12,680 --> 00:21:14,516
[current Robbie] Everybody knows
I'm in trouble.

399
00:21:14,600 --> 00:21:15,760
<i>And how are you?</i>

400
00:21:16,480 --> 00:21:18,640
[current Robbie] But, um... I didn't care.

401
00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:24,400
I'd gone past the point of no return.

402
00:21:29,600 --> 00:21:30,520
And, um...

403
00:21:31,920 --> 00:21:33,320
I needed grown-ups.

404
00:21:41,120 --> 00:21:44,440
My life had spiraled
out of control so severely.

405
00:21:46,920 --> 00:21:50,800
But my manager understood
what needed to happen.

406
00:21:52,400 --> 00:21:55,316
I needed to be carted off
and taken away to rehab.

407
00:21:55,400 --> 00:21:57,036
[man] Robbie, how you feeling today?

408
00:21:57,120 --> 00:22:00,236
New single out 14th July.
It's called "Lazy Days." It's fantastic.

409
00:22:00,320 --> 00:22:02,876
[man] Any message for fans
who might be a bit worried about you?

410
00:22:02,960 --> 00:22:04,756
Uh, no, don't be worried about me.
I'm fine.

411
00:22:04,840 --> 00:22:07,476
But a bit... a bit, um...
I'm appalled at the turnout.

412
00:22:07,560 --> 00:22:11,076
When Michael Barrymore had a problem,
there was thousands outside his house.

413
00:22:11,160 --> 00:22:12,000
<i>See ya!</i>

414
00:22:13,960 --> 00:22:15,040
[sighs]

415
00:22:18,040 --> 00:22:20,040
[gentle music playing]

416
00:22:21,160 --> 00:22:22,560
[current Robbie] It's a tough watch.

417
00:22:24,480 --> 00:22:25,720
Reliving that again.

418
00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:35,080
I think the root of that darkness was

419
00:22:36,200 --> 00:22:37,760
the perfect storm

420
00:22:38,840 --> 00:22:40,560
of too much too soon.

421
00:22:48,160 --> 00:22:52,836
But just because, in this moment,
I couldn't figure out how to live...

422
00:22:52,920 --> 00:22:55,276
[children chatter happily]

423
00:22:55,360 --> 00:22:57,960
...I knew that it didn't mean
that I couldn't.

424
00:23:06,680 --> 00:23:10,360
You know, you don't wanna be
a has-been at 23.

425
00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:12,680
[woman] You can have lots of treats.

426
00:23:15,280 --> 00:23:18,000
[current Robbie] And this has
to go somewhere because

427
00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:20,320
there's nothin' else.

428
00:23:27,600 --> 00:23:29,556
["South of the Border" playing]

429
00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:31,920
[woman] "Clean and serene for sixty days"?

430
00:23:33,640 --> 00:23:34,520
Good, innit?

431
00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:36,996
Dead serene.

432
00:23:37,080 --> 00:23:41,436
<i>♪ 'Cause you know
you're gonna have to leave... ♪</i>

433
00:23:41,520 --> 00:23:44,396
[current Robbie] I think for me,
it became like a weight-loss camp.

434
00:23:44,480 --> 00:23:47,240
Nobody noticed that I was
just eatin' a banana a day.

435
00:23:47,760 --> 00:23:50,920
[young Robbie] Towards the end of 30 days,
gettin' up towards my 60-day one,

436
00:23:51,880 --> 00:23:53,680
I started to get very nervous.

437
00:23:54,880 --> 00:23:56,840
- Gimme a line. Gimme a line.
- [laughter]

438
00:23:58,920 --> 00:24:00,396
[man] Is that my car?!

439
00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:02,596
[current Robbie] It's amazing
how alive I am instantly.

440
00:24:02,680 --> 00:24:04,200
- [woman] Action.
- [man] Robbie!

441
00:24:04,720 --> 00:24:07,160
[current Robbie] And all it's taken
is 60 days.

442
00:24:13,520 --> 00:24:15,880
- [man] Do it in Spanish.
- Do it in Spanish?

443
00:24:16,920 --> 00:24:19,676
[speaks in fake Spanish]

444
00:24:19,760 --> 00:24:20,836
...court case.

445
00:24:20,920 --> 00:24:22,676
[continues in fake Spanish]

446
00:24:22,760 --> 00:24:23,796
...Robbie Williams...

447
00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:26,076
[continues in fake Spanish]

448
00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:28,880
<i>- ...for la meaty goodness. But also...</i>
- [laughter]

449
00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:30,960
There's life there.

450
00:24:31,680 --> 00:24:34,476
[woman] Robbie is back. Whoa, whoa.

451
00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:37,880
[both] Robbie is back.
Robbie is back. Whoa, whoa.

452
00:24:39,320 --> 00:24:42,200
[current Robbie] It had been two years
since Take That.

453
00:24:43,760 --> 00:24:46,560
I'd waited a long time.
I needed to get goin'.

454
00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:54,400
["Let Me Entertain You" playing]

455
00:25:01,880 --> 00:25:05,240
[young Robbie] Here you join us
backstage tonight and, um,

456
00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:07,480
gettin' nervous.

457
00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:10,640
"Am I big enough? Am I enough?"
All that sorta gig.

458
00:25:15,560 --> 00:25:17,516
[background chatter]

459
00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:19,036
[cheering]

460
00:25:19,120 --> 00:25:21,196
[screaming]

461
00:25:21,280 --> 00:25:22,996
Don't call it a comeback!

462
00:25:23,080 --> 00:25:24,760
["Let Me Entertain You" continues]

463
00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:28,920
[screaming]

464
00:25:30,640 --> 00:25:34,156
<i>♪ Hell is gone and heaven's here
There's nothing left for you to fear ♪</i>

465
00:25:34,240 --> 00:25:36,916
<i>♪ Shake your ass, come over here
Now scream ♪</i>

466
00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:38,396
[crowd screaming]

467
00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:41,916
<i>♪ I'm a burnin' effigy
Of everythin' I used to be ♪</i>

468
00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:44,760
<i>♪ You're my rock of empathy, my dear ♪</i>

469
00:25:45,280 --> 00:25:50,840
<i>♪ So come on, let me entertain you ♪</i>

470
00:25:53,800 --> 00:25:58,156
<i>♪ Let me entertain you ♪</i>

471
00:25:58,240 --> 00:25:59,200
Come on, then!

472
00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:02,996
- [applause]
- [man] Robbie!

473
00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:04,196
Robbie!

474
00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:08,556
[young Robbie] I spent two years
forgettin' why I was doin' this job.

475
00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:10,076
What I was doin' it for.

476
00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:13,076
It's not for the money.
It's not for the critical acclaim.

477
00:26:13,160 --> 00:26:16,036
I want to entertain.
That's what I wanna do.

478
00:26:16,120 --> 00:26:18,236
<i>♪ So come on, let me... ♪</i>

479
00:26:18,320 --> 00:26:20,596
[current Robbie] Somethin' very excitin'
is happenin'.

480
00:26:20,680 --> 00:26:23,276
I was learning how to be an entertainer.

481
00:26:23,360 --> 00:26:25,680
Something that people
could come and watch.

482
00:26:26,920 --> 00:26:30,600
But the record company
needed me to return on their investment.

483
00:26:32,520 --> 00:26:34,520
[music fades, echoes]

484
00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:41,120
The album comes out,
and it sells in total 33,000 copies.

485
00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:44,996
You know, there's a lot of jeopardy
ridin' on this

486
00:26:45,080 --> 00:26:47,960
because it was all on me.

487
00:26:48,480 --> 00:26:50,080
[as Elvis Presley] Thank you very much.

488
00:26:54,520 --> 00:26:56,196
- Was it bad last night?
- Yeah.

489
00:26:56,280 --> 00:26:57,956
- Is it bad every night?
- No...

490
00:26:58,040 --> 00:27:00,556
Well, it's just one of the problem songs.

491
00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:03,760
Just trying to find a way of helping you
so you can get that pitch.

492
00:27:04,360 --> 00:27:06,316
- Thank you very much.
- It's just that song, innit?

493
00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:10,596
"Old Before I Die" has sometimes been
a little bit hit and miss as well.

494
00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:14,236
I think that's 'cause at that point
in the set, you're really hyped up.

495
00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:18,160
You've got to listen more, that's all.
Listen to what everyone's doing.

496
00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:20,920
'Cause everyone's doing great stuff.

497
00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:25,036
You've gotta like,
"Ah, right! I'm part of this great band."

498
00:27:25,120 --> 00:27:28,440
- No, I... That's not the case at all.
- Just in terms of listening.

499
00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:30,840
- Okay.
- Sometimes you just...

500
00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:34,000
It doesn't always... I dunno, it just...

501
00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:38,636
You're just thinking of how
you can put this now, aren't you?

502
00:27:38,720 --> 00:27:40,276
- No, no, no!
- [Robbie laughs]

503
00:27:40,360 --> 00:27:43,116
- Go on, put it in any way you like.
- No, I mean, I just...

504
00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:45,920
I just think
you're giving 100% to the crowd,

505
00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:47,996
not necessarily holding back, going,

506
00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:49,756
"I should concentrate
on being the singer--"

507
00:27:49,840 --> 00:27:52,360
This is five minutes
before I'm goin' on to do a gig.

508
00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:53,956
D'you know what I mean?

509
00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:56,516
- [man] What's the matter--
- What do you want now?

510
00:27:56,600 --> 00:27:58,076
- Piss off.
- [man] You wearing that?

511
00:27:58,160 --> 00:27:59,636
- Yeah.
- [man] You look a cunt.

512
00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:01,120
[laughter]

513
00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:05,800
Go out there
and be confident, Rob. [laughs]

514
00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:17,440
[current Robbie] Figuratively speaking,
my career was falling off a cliff.

515
00:28:21,720 --> 00:28:24,636
And I'd had quite a few goes with singles

516
00:28:24,720 --> 00:28:27,040
that wouldn't be allowed to happen now.

517
00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:31,240
And a memo goes round the record company.

518
00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:36,200
I am about to be dropped.

519
00:28:40,760 --> 00:28:43,396
[young Robbie] When you find yourself
starin' into an abyss,

520
00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:46,076
you just might find yourself staring back.

521
00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:49,160
- [man] I think I know what you mean.
- [Robbie laughs]

522
00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:50,880
[Robbie] Right, stop.

523
00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:57,960
[current Robbie] It looks
as though that's it for the Williams boy.

524
00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:05,000
What a lovely day for it.

525
00:29:06,840 --> 00:29:10,920
[current Robbie] But in my back pocket,
I had somethin' special.

526
00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:13,440
[gentle strumming]

527
00:29:18,160 --> 00:29:19,040
[Guy] "Angels."

528
00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:21,836
Two, three, four.

529
00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:23,676
[harmonizing]

530
00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:29,720
<i>♪ And I know I'll always
Be blessed with love ♪</i>

531
00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:36,356
<i>♪ And as the feeling grows</i> ... ♪

532
00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:40,040
"Angels" comes out,
and then thank God for that because

533
00:29:40,920 --> 00:29:42,080
everything changed.

534
00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:46,240
[audience] <i>♪ I'm loving angels instead ♪</i>

535
00:29:46,880 --> 00:29:50,196
[Robbie] <i>♪ And through it all ♪</i>

536
00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:52,920
<i>♪ She offers me protection ♪</i>

537
00:29:53,440 --> 00:29:56,320
<i>♪ A lot of love and affection ♪</i>

538
00:29:56,920 --> 00:29:59,280
<i>♪ Whether I'm right or wrong... ♪</i>

539
00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:01,436
[host] He's back. He's live.

540
00:30:01,520 --> 00:30:03,556
He's better than ever.
He's Robbie Williams.

541
00:30:03,640 --> 00:30:05,076
<i>♪ Wherever it may take... ♪</i>

542
00:30:05,160 --> 00:30:07,636
[DJ] ...Robbie Williams,
with a chart climber.

543
00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:09,200
<i>♪ ...won't break me ♪</i>

544
00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:11,156
<i>♪ When I come to call... ♪</i>

545
00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:13,356
[current Robbie] Something was connecting...

546
00:30:13,440 --> 00:30:16,560
<i>- ♪ She won't foresake me... ♪
- ...</i> and you could just feel this momentum.

547
00:30:18,080 --> 00:30:20,876
<i>♪ I'm lovin' angels instead ♪</i>

548
00:30:20,960 --> 00:30:24,076
It was the rocket taking off.
With a... [whooshes]

549
00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:26,236
<i>♪ When I'm feelin' weak ♪</i>

550
00:30:26,320 --> 00:30:32,560
[audience] <i>♪ And my pain walks down
A one-way street ♪</i>

551
00:30:36,400 --> 00:30:40,316
[cockney accent]
Currently, 'avin' an 'it in Shveden.

552
00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:41,796
[laughter]

553
00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:45,036
So we may go to Shveden,
as we are 'avin' an 'it.

554
00:30:45,120 --> 00:30:47,400
["Angels" continues playing]

555
00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:51,796
[audience] <i>♪ And as the feeling grows... ♪</i>

556
00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:53,916
[current Robbie] The album sales
are gettin' bigger.

557
00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:55,400
The audiences are gettin' bigger.

558
00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:57,880
[audience] <i>♪ And when love is dead... ♪</i>

559
00:30:58,480 --> 00:31:00,956
From the jaws of defeat,

560
00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:04,116
we seem to be making headway
into the world.

561
00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:06,280
["Angels" continues playing]

562
00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:12,560
[screaming]

563
00:31:19,280 --> 00:31:21,156
[man] Open the window. Let the sound in.

564
00:31:21,240 --> 00:31:23,036
[fans screaming]

565
00:31:23,120 --> 00:31:24,080
[man] Moon! Moon!

566
00:31:26,320 --> 00:31:32,396
<i>♪ And through it all
She offers me protection ♪</i>

567
00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:35,916
[DJ] Is it always like that when we open
the window in a radio station,

568
00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:38,196
and all the girls
stood outside scream and shout?

569
00:31:38,280 --> 00:31:41,396
- It's like that outside me launderette!
- [DJ] What's it like back home?

570
00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:44,116
Do you wish sometimes
to have a normal life?

571
00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:45,676
This <i>is</i> a normal life.

572
00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:48,240
- [screaming]
<i>- ♪ I know that life won't break me... ♪</i>

573
00:31:49,080 --> 00:31:52,116
I don't know what it is
that's so special about that song.

574
00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:55,360
But whatever <i>it</i> is, it had it.

575
00:31:57,240 --> 00:32:01,476
<i>♪ I'm loving angels instead ♪</i>

576
00:32:01,560 --> 00:32:04,200
- [cheering, whistling]
- Thank you!

577
00:32:07,360 --> 00:32:08,236
[man] <i>Hello, Rob.</i>

578
00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:10,556
<i>It's not a silver surprise.</i>

579
00:32:10,640 --> 00:32:12,156
<i>It's not a gold surprise.</i>

580
00:32:12,240 --> 00:32:13,796
<i>It's a platinum surprise!</i>

581
00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:15,880
[audience whooping]

582
00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:20,800
<i>He's gone platinum, everybody!</i>

583
00:32:22,120 --> 00:32:23,920
<i>Um, I'm gobsmacked with this.</i>

584
00:32:24,880 --> 00:32:25,996
<i>Fantastic.</i>

585
00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:28,516
[cheering]

586
00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:30,036
<i>I've got a career!</i>

587
00:32:30,120 --> 00:32:32,360
[cheering and applause continues on video]

588
00:32:35,120 --> 00:32:36,360
<i>Thank you very much.</i>

589
00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:38,600
[woman] <i>Robbie?</i>

590
00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:40,320
<i>It was good!</i>

591
00:32:44,320 --> 00:32:45,916
- [sighs]
- [laughter]

592
00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:48,516
- [chatter]
- [man] Rock-and-roll capital of Surrey.

593
00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:50,000
[Robbie] Right. Bloody 'ell.

594
00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:52,156
- Right?
- [man] Yeah.

595
00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:53,400
[chatter]

596
00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:56,036
[woman] He was fab, wasn't he?

597
00:32:56,120 --> 00:32:59,316
[current Robbie] Success definitely,
subconsciously,

598
00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:01,040
did equal happiness.

599
00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:04,876
- I'm speechless.
- [man] Did you enjoy that?

600
00:33:04,960 --> 00:33:06,440
[woman] Absolutely brilliant.

601
00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:10,320
[current Robbie] This is my second go
at biting the apple.

602
00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:12,640
Take That was the first.

603
00:33:13,160 --> 00:33:14,400
This is the second.

604
00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:18,160
[woman] Well done.

605
00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:21,836
- [man] Brilliant.
- Thank you.

606
00:33:21,920 --> 00:33:23,640
[current Robbie] I'm a pop star now.

607
00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:28,520
I'm the fully thinged...
I'm the fully thing thinged.

608
00:33:35,760 --> 00:33:38,760
[man 1] Peter Snow
getting Robbie's autograph.

609
00:33:39,720 --> 00:33:42,240
- I think it's a swing to the left.
- [man 2] Left?

610
00:33:43,160 --> 00:33:44,516
Oh right. All Saints.

611
00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:45,876
[chatter, laughter]

612
00:33:45,960 --> 00:33:48,040
[dreamy music playing]

613
00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:53,240
[current Robbie] Fame,
in and of of itself, is a playground.

614
00:33:55,320 --> 00:33:59,396
And I didn't know
who I was gonna be in that playground,

615
00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:00,956
but I wanted to be in it.

616
00:34:01,040 --> 00:34:02,960
[cheering]

617
00:34:03,480 --> 00:34:05,080
- Sh!
- [man] Name and age.

618
00:34:05,560 --> 00:34:08,120
Um, Nicole Appleton, and I'm 23.

619
00:34:08,640 --> 00:34:11,676
[man] If you had one night
with Robbie Williams, what would you do?

620
00:34:11,760 --> 00:34:12,720
I've done it!

621
00:34:13,240 --> 00:34:15,240
[dreamy music continues]

622
00:34:17,320 --> 00:34:21,280
[current Robbie] Nicole Appleton
is in a band called All Saints.

623
00:34:22,560 --> 00:34:25,200
The less smiley version
of the Spice Girls.

624
00:34:28,240 --> 00:34:31,360
- I could change it with mine.
- [man] That'd be really funny.

625
00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:33,840
- I should do that?
- Yeah!

626
00:34:35,680 --> 00:34:38,960
[current Robbie] So, at some point,
our paths were bound to cross,

627
00:34:39,760 --> 00:34:42,916
and we struck up a relationship together.

628
00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:45,000
[dreamy music continues]

629
00:34:49,960 --> 00:34:55,680
She was kind and fun and sweet.
You know, she was just a good soul.

630
00:34:58,280 --> 00:35:00,196
With my relationship with Nic,

631
00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:02,320
it was very important to me

632
00:35:02,920 --> 00:35:05,636
to learn to become
the man that I was supposed to be.

633
00:35:05,720 --> 00:35:07,720
[applause]

634
00:35:10,320 --> 00:35:14,636
You know, these are miracles
that are happening in my life.

635
00:35:14,720 --> 00:35:17,600
[screaming, whistling]

636
00:35:21,120 --> 00:35:23,156
You know when something's right?

637
00:35:23,240 --> 00:35:25,640
- Tonight's right!
- [screaming]

638
00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:30,036
And I'm so 'appy!

639
00:35:30,120 --> 00:35:32,396
[screaming]

640
00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:34,480
[music fades]

641
00:35:41,560 --> 00:35:43,796
[current Robbie] There was no left.
There was no right.

642
00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:45,436
There was only forward.

643
00:35:45,520 --> 00:35:47,520
[mariachi music playing]

644
00:36:03,720 --> 00:36:05,280
Hi, mate. What's the date?

645
00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:07,756
- [Guy] It's 19th January.
- 19th January.

646
00:36:07,840 --> 00:36:10,320
The new year. 1998.

647
00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:15,116
- Here at Jake's place in Jamaica.
- [Guy] Wahey.

648
00:36:15,200 --> 00:36:17,196
We came from Gatwick yesterday,
me and Guy.

649
00:36:17,280 --> 00:36:18,796
- Say hello, Guy.
- [Guy] Hello, Rob.

650
00:36:18,880 --> 00:36:20,560
Hello, mate. Come with me.

651
00:36:23,720 --> 00:36:24,720
[squeals]

652
00:36:26,160 --> 00:36:28,276
We brought our own studio with us.

653
00:36:28,360 --> 00:36:31,160
A little 8-track.
So we can record while we're out here.

654
00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:39,440
That's safe, innit?
Keep it under lock and key.

655
00:36:40,240 --> 00:36:42,240
[door creaks]

656
00:36:46,160 --> 00:36:47,240
[Guy] Move up a bit.

657
00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:50,356
Don't want your ugly mug
on my video diary.

658
00:36:50,440 --> 00:36:51,760
I look really white.

659
00:36:52,280 --> 00:36:53,476
That's 'cause you are.

660
00:36:53,560 --> 00:36:55,756
[strums guitar]

661
00:36:55,840 --> 00:36:57,680
[posh accent] He's from Surrey, you know.

662
00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:02,160
[Guy plays a melody]

663
00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:08,840
[current Robbie] Traditionally, there is
the "difficult second album" syndrome.

664
00:37:09,600 --> 00:37:11,760
I didn't feel that way with Guy.

665
00:37:15,240 --> 00:37:19,200
I think that what we were doing together
also excited <i>him</i> .

666
00:37:20,360 --> 00:37:24,036
<i>♪ I've come to remind you
That we'll come and find you ♪</i>

667
00:37:24,120 --> 00:37:26,120
<i>♪ This is a happy song ♪</i>

668
00:37:27,480 --> 00:37:29,716
<i>♪ Do-do do-do-do, do-do... ♪</i>

669
00:37:29,800 --> 00:37:32,080
He was a older brother,

670
00:37:33,120 --> 00:37:35,836
mentor, musical mentor...

671
00:37:35,920 --> 00:37:37,636
[singing continues on video]

672
00:37:37,720 --> 00:37:39,716
...and I was a student.

673
00:37:39,800 --> 00:37:42,836
<i>♪ Do-do do-do-do, do-do do-do-do ♪</i>

674
00:37:42,920 --> 00:37:44,476
<i>♪ Do-do do-do-do... ♪</i>

675
00:37:44,560 --> 00:37:46,956
- It's okay there.
<i>- ♪ Do-do do-do-do ♪</i>

676
00:37:47,040 --> 00:37:48,676
<i>- ♪ Do-do-do ♪
- ♪ Do-do-do ♪</i>

677
00:37:48,760 --> 00:37:49,756
<i>- ♪Do-do ♪
- ♪ Do ♪</i>

678
00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:51,916
[singing continues]

679
00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:55,400
[Guy] As you can see,
it is now pouring down with rain.

680
00:37:56,560 --> 00:37:59,476
Quick. Quick, Rob.
Because it mustn't get wet. The stuff.

681
00:37:59,560 --> 00:38:01,120
[laughter]

682
00:38:02,440 --> 00:38:04,996
<i>♪ Send you our love 'cause we care... ♪</i>

683
00:38:05,080 --> 00:38:08,636
[current Robbie] There was so much love
between me and Guy in those moments.

684
00:38:08,720 --> 00:38:11,760
<i>♪ ...news from Jamaica ♪</i>

685
00:38:13,760 --> 00:38:15,800
[Guy] <i>Day seven.</i> [laughs]

686
00:38:18,840 --> 00:38:24,600
[current Robbie] And this was
a beautiful way to spend your life.

687
00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:35,196
- [Guy] It's rather nice, isn't it?
- [Robbie] It's fantastic.

688
00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:37,516
Sure we're gonna get
a lot of inspiration here.

689
00:38:37,600 --> 00:38:39,156
- It's amazing.
- This is amazing.

690
00:38:39,240 --> 00:38:43,316
[Guy] This is just... I think it's one of
the most amazing places I've ever been.

691
00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:45,756
- Yeah.
- Actually. It's up there.

692
00:38:45,840 --> 00:38:47,036
Have you been to Rhyl?

693
00:38:47,120 --> 00:38:48,836
[Guy laughs]

694
00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:50,520
- It's very like--
- In Wales.

695
00:38:51,600 --> 00:38:52,800
It's just like this.

696
00:38:58,720 --> 00:39:01,120
- [phone rings]
- [Guy] Oh dear, where's the phone?

697
00:39:04,320 --> 00:39:05,160
Hello?

698
00:39:07,280 --> 00:39:08,280
Is that Nicky?

699
00:39:09,520 --> 00:39:10,800
It's Guy.

700
00:39:11,520 --> 00:39:12,876
She's on the telephone.

701
00:39:12,960 --> 00:39:14,320
- Is she?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.

702
00:39:15,240 --> 00:39:17,276
- Can I just leave it here?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.

703
00:39:17,360 --> 00:39:19,440
Guy's gonna leave the video camera here.

704
00:39:20,640 --> 00:39:27,240
So, I am possibly looking
at the most amazing view that, um,

705
00:39:27,880 --> 00:39:29,520
I've ever seen in my life.

706
00:39:31,360 --> 00:39:34,956
Yeah, honestly, babe, I'm not kiddin' you,
I walked into this place...

707
00:39:35,040 --> 00:39:37,840
I'm about 3,000 feet up in the mountains.

708
00:39:38,520 --> 00:39:41,160
There's... There's just forests everywhere.

709
00:39:41,680 --> 00:39:44,516
I can see Kingston...
I'm not kidding you, right,

710
00:39:44,600 --> 00:39:48,120
as I walked in
and I was shown around the place,

711
00:39:48,720 --> 00:39:51,360
um, I got onto the balcony and just cried.

712
00:39:53,600 --> 00:39:55,036
Yeah. Yeah.

713
00:39:55,120 --> 00:39:56,400
- [Nicole] <i>Wow!</i>
- Just like...

714
00:39:57,000 --> 00:39:59,600
<i>Just so... proud.</i>

715
00:40:02,640 --> 00:40:05,120
It's... You know, it's like,
I'm like a child there.

716
00:40:06,520 --> 00:40:07,880
Talkin' to a mum.

717
00:40:09,080 --> 00:40:11,000
About what I'm experiencing and...

718
00:40:12,480 --> 00:40:14,200
The truth is, um...

719
00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:18,360
I was still... still a baby.

720
00:40:25,680 --> 00:40:28,720
You know, I was 16
when I joined Take That.

721
00:40:30,080 --> 00:40:34,396
And I guess that there is
some sort of broken teenager in there

722
00:40:34,480 --> 00:40:35,800
that will be, um,

723
00:40:36,720 --> 00:40:39,280
tryin' to sort out
the wreckage of the past.

724
00:40:43,600 --> 00:40:44,440
But...

725
00:40:45,560 --> 00:40:47,396
I couldn't let it go.

726
00:40:47,480 --> 00:40:49,516
[guitar strumming]

727
00:40:49,600 --> 00:40:51,680
[vocalizing]

728
00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:56,800
[Robbie] "Do you feel cut up?"

729
00:40:58,560 --> 00:40:59,720
"Do you feel cut up

730
00:41:00,440 --> 00:41:02,956
by the people... duh-duh-duh... you've met?"

731
00:41:03,040 --> 00:41:04,476
Hm.

732
00:41:04,560 --> 00:41:07,916
- "That you've left by the wayside."
- No, it's gotta rhyme with "et."

733
00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:09,036
Mm.

734
00:41:09,120 --> 00:41:10,880
- "Have you popped your clogs yet?"
- Mm.

735
00:41:12,560 --> 00:41:16,076
[current Robbie] I suppose, at this point,
my memories of being in that band

736
00:41:16,160 --> 00:41:19,200
are sullied with
how I felt during the process.

737
00:41:19,840 --> 00:41:21,840
So, you can imagine what this...

738
00:41:23,920 --> 00:41:25,240
young man is feelin'.

739
00:41:25,840 --> 00:41:28,396
<i>♪ I guess you know I hate you ♪</i>

740
00:41:28,480 --> 00:41:31,040
- [guitar playing]
- <i>♪ Needless to say ♪</i>

741
00:41:32,400 --> 00:41:35,440
<i>♪ I guess you know I hate you ♪</i>

742
00:41:36,080 --> 00:41:37,680
<i>♪ Are you still around? ♪</i>

743
00:41:39,320 --> 00:41:41,680
<i>♪ Why haven't you managed to die yet? ♪</i>

744
00:41:42,720 --> 00:41:44,720
<i>♪ How can you sleep? ♪</i>

745
00:41:46,200 --> 00:41:47,556
- D'you know what, though?
- What?

746
00:41:47,640 --> 00:41:49,196
Don't like the chorus.

747
00:41:49,280 --> 00:41:51,196
The fact that it's so... jolly?

748
00:41:51,280 --> 00:41:53,396
So j... I don't want it to be jolly.
I don't...

749
00:41:53,480 --> 00:41:55,716
It... It doesn't feel right
when I'm singing it.

750
00:41:55,800 --> 00:41:58,716
I want it to be nasty.
I want it to be as nasty as the verse.

751
00:41:58,800 --> 00:41:59,716
I'm not being...

752
00:41:59,800 --> 00:42:00,796
[Guy strums guitar]

753
00:42:00,880 --> 00:42:01,916
...ironic or...

754
00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:02,836
[Guy] Hm. Mm.

755
00:42:02,920 --> 00:42:05,436
I'm being fuckin' serious.
Fuckin' hate these cunts.

756
00:42:05,520 --> 00:42:06,836
[Guy] Mm. [strums rapid chords]

757
00:42:06,920 --> 00:42:12,760
<i>♪ You could prop up a bar in hell ♪</i>

758
00:42:13,600 --> 00:42:16,916
<i>♪ How do you sleep?
How do you laugh? ♪</i>

759
00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:20,116
<i>♪ How do you cry?
How do you lie? ♪</i>

760
00:42:20,200 --> 00:42:23,800
<i>- ♪ Na na na na ♪
- ♪Na na na na na ♪</i>

761
00:42:26,840 --> 00:42:30,116
<i>♪ How do you touch?
How do you feel? ♪</i>

762
00:42:30,200 --> 00:42:32,200
<i>♪ How do you keep me from... ♪</i>

763
00:42:34,880 --> 00:42:36,876
Angry. Venom. Venom.

764
00:42:36,960 --> 00:42:37,796
[man] Spittle.

765
00:42:37,880 --> 00:42:38,716
Spittle!

766
00:42:38,800 --> 00:42:39,960
[Guy] That's good, that.

767
00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:42,600
Yeah, I can see that. Yeah.

768
00:42:44,240 --> 00:42:45,596
[current Robbie] Teddy bear!

769
00:42:45,680 --> 00:42:47,000
Come, come get in bed.

770
00:42:49,440 --> 00:42:53,360
Put your drink down, and just come
and get behind me. Gimme a cuddle.

771
00:42:55,520 --> 00:42:56,796
Hi, Daddy.

772
00:42:56,880 --> 00:42:59,356
Talkin' about the...
the band I used to be in.

773
00:42:59,440 --> 00:43:01,440
- Yes. Question?
- Yes.

774
00:43:02,200 --> 00:43:04,320
Who did you hate the most and why?

775
00:43:05,080 --> 00:43:06,196
Who did I hate the most?

776
00:43:06,280 --> 00:43:09,240
I disliked Gary

777
00:43:09,920 --> 00:43:11,000
the most

778
00:43:11,640 --> 00:43:13,040
because

779
00:43:14,120 --> 00:43:17,680
he... was the one that was supposed to 'ave

780
00:43:18,720 --> 00:43:20,596
the everythin' and the career.

781
00:43:20,680 --> 00:43:22,840
And I wanted to make him pay.

782
00:43:24,040 --> 00:43:25,036
I was...

783
00:43:25,120 --> 00:43:26,800
- How?
- I was vengeful.

784
00:43:27,800 --> 00:43:31,080
By havin' the career

785
00:43:32,240 --> 00:43:35,760
that he was supposed to have.

786
00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:39,000
[fans screaming]

787
00:43:40,480 --> 00:43:43,316
Here's a song about a group of people

788
00:43:43,400 --> 00:43:45,516
that I used to be with an awful lot.

789
00:43:45,600 --> 00:43:47,876
[cheering, whistling]

790
00:43:47,960 --> 00:43:49,996
Those people are called Take That.

791
00:43:50,080 --> 00:43:52,080
[screaming]

792
00:43:54,800 --> 00:43:58,436
You know, there was five of us.
There was one very small one.

793
00:43:58,520 --> 00:44:00,520
[screaming]

794
00:44:02,080 --> 00:44:05,796
And, uh... one had like a mop on his head.

795
00:44:05,880 --> 00:44:07,600
[imperceptible]

796
00:44:08,240 --> 00:44:09,960
The other one had a mohican,

797
00:44:10,800 --> 00:44:11,960
and he was a twat.

798
00:44:12,480 --> 00:44:14,956
And the other one looked a bit like this.

799
00:44:15,040 --> 00:44:17,040
[cheering]

800
00:44:20,920 --> 00:44:22,760
<i>Listen.</i>

801
00:44:23,320 --> 00:44:25,560
<i>There's somebody booing me down here</i>

802
00:44:26,080 --> 00:44:28,236
that actually likes Gary Barlow.

803
00:44:28,320 --> 00:44:30,320
[whooping]

804
00:44:33,440 --> 00:44:36,280
He's not selling
any more records now, girls!

805
00:44:38,720 --> 00:44:40,836
Let's face it, he's dead!

806
00:44:40,920 --> 00:44:42,916
[cheering]

807
00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:44,960
[audio fades]

808
00:44:46,880 --> 00:44:49,240
I'm sorry that I treated Gary like that.

809
00:44:59,320 --> 00:45:01,800
Nobody graduates from childhood fame

810
00:45:03,280 --> 00:45:04,480
well balanced.

811
00:45:08,360 --> 00:45:11,760
The years of finding yourself,
maturing, and growin' up...

812
00:45:14,600 --> 00:45:16,520
that everybody has is taken away from you.

813
00:45:20,040 --> 00:45:21,400
Um, Nicky?

814
00:45:22,880 --> 00:45:23,960
Will you marry me?

815
00:45:25,120 --> 00:45:25,960
"Yes"?

816
00:45:27,600 --> 00:45:28,556
Good.

817
00:45:28,640 --> 00:45:30,200
All right, then. Bye!

818
00:45:30,720 --> 00:45:32,280
[laughs]

819
00:45:34,040 --> 00:45:37,476
[current Robbie] I guess
that I'm tryin' to convince myself

820
00:45:37,560 --> 00:45:41,120
that I'm the kind of person
that is ready for that kind of commitment.

821
00:45:42,600 --> 00:45:43,840
I know I'm not.

822
00:45:50,040 --> 00:45:51,760
I couldn't look after myself.

823
00:45:52,520 --> 00:45:54,120
I was in no fit state

824
00:45:54,840 --> 00:45:57,636
to offer myself as a partner.

825
00:45:57,720 --> 00:46:00,320
- Are you gonna sit on the sound thing?
- Yeah.

826
00:46:01,560 --> 00:46:05,116
[current Robbie] And, um,
the relationship with Nic ended

827
00:46:05,200 --> 00:46:06,520
a few months after this.

828
00:46:07,040 --> 00:46:08,200
Stop filmin' now.

829
00:46:14,440 --> 00:46:15,796
[man] Just a bit of traffic, then.

830
00:46:15,880 --> 00:46:17,880
[static crackling]

831
00:46:19,280 --> 00:46:21,040
[woman] Probably why he's goin'.

832
00:46:22,200 --> 00:46:25,436
- [woman] I can't believe that happened.
- [Robbie] Look at that!

833
00:46:25,520 --> 00:46:27,880
- [man] Wow! Fuck!
- [woman] It's like a sea of...

834
00:46:28,680 --> 00:46:29,800
[Robbie] It's all mud.

835
00:46:31,240 --> 00:46:33,716
[current Robbie] I felt
like I was an infant

836
00:46:33,800 --> 00:46:35,840
in the grown-up world.

837
00:46:37,800 --> 00:46:40,396
So, I'm just about
to go on at Glastonbury,

838
00:46:40,480 --> 00:46:42,560
and I don't know what's gonna 'appen.

839
00:46:45,280 --> 00:46:48,116
It's, uh... 88,000 people.

840
00:46:48,200 --> 00:46:49,876
[cheering]

841
00:46:49,960 --> 00:46:52,320
It's the epoch of credibility.

842
00:46:54,360 --> 00:46:58,600
And it's the biggest gig
of my career so far.

843
00:46:59,960 --> 00:47:01,476
Come on!

844
00:47:01,560 --> 00:47:03,040
Let's fuckin' 'ave it!

845
00:47:05,160 --> 00:47:06,276
I'm terrified.

846
00:47:06,360 --> 00:47:07,960
Absolutely terrified.

847
00:47:11,200 --> 00:47:13,200
[crowd shouting]

848
00:47:16,520 --> 00:47:20,596
[current Robbie] This had the opportunity
to go very badly.

849
00:47:20,680 --> 00:47:22,920
[tense music playing]

850
00:47:24,920 --> 00:47:28,956
There's still a bit of me goin',
"I'm still Rob from Stoke-on-Trent."

851
00:47:29,040 --> 00:47:30,236
"I'm still 16."

852
00:47:30,320 --> 00:47:32,116
[cheering]

853
00:47:32,200 --> 00:47:35,440
That's one of those moments
where I think I'm gonna be found out.

854
00:47:36,040 --> 00:47:38,040
[cheering, whistling]

855
00:47:39,920 --> 00:47:41,920
[cheering intensifies]

856
00:47:52,960 --> 00:47:54,960
- [ "Angels" playing]
- [cheering]

857
00:47:58,040 --> 00:47:59,640
<i>♪ I sit and wait ♪</i>

858
00:48:01,280 --> 00:48:07,556
<i>♪ Does an angel contemplate my fate ♪</i>

859
00:48:07,640 --> 00:48:08,600
If you must!

860
00:48:11,120 --> 00:48:13,000
<i>♪ And do they know ♪</i>

861
00:48:13,600 --> 00:48:15,760
<i>♪ The places where we go ♪</i>

862
00:48:16,400 --> 00:48:19,960
<i>♪ When you're gray and old ♪</i>

863
00:48:22,800 --> 00:48:25,560
<i>♪ 'Cause I've been told ♪</i>

864
00:48:26,840 --> 00:48:33,720
<i>♪ That salvation lets their wings unfold ♪</i>

865
00:48:36,560 --> 00:48:39,360
<i>♪ So when I'm lyin' in my bed ♪</i>

866
00:48:40,520 --> 00:48:42,600
<i>♪ Thoughts runnin' through my head ♪</i>

867
00:48:43,760 --> 00:48:46,520
<i>♪ And I feel that love is dead ♪</i>

868
00:48:47,600 --> 00:48:48,476
<i>♪ I'm lovin'... ♪</i>

869
00:48:48,560 --> 00:48:50,796
- [current Robbie] Lo and behold <i>...
- ♪ ...angels instead ♪</i>

870
00:48:50,880 --> 00:48:52,280
...they embraced me!

871
00:48:52,800 --> 00:48:58,000
[crowd] <i>♪ Through it all
She offers me protection... ♪</i>

872
00:48:58,520 --> 00:48:59,360
[current Robbie] Me.

873
00:48:59,880 --> 00:49:02,556
Bobbins from Take That.

874
00:49:02,640 --> 00:49:04,676
[crowd] <i>♪ ...whether I'm right or wrong ♪</i>

875
00:49:04,760 --> 00:49:07,716
<i>♪ And down the waterfall... ♪</i>

876
00:49:07,800 --> 00:49:10,876
[current Robbie] How does it feel
to have thousands of people

877
00:49:10,960 --> 00:49:13,760
sing the words that you've written
back to you?

878
00:49:14,560 --> 00:49:16,396
[crowd] <i>♪ When I come to call... ♪</i>

879
00:49:16,480 --> 00:49:18,356
It is intoxicatin'.

880
00:49:18,440 --> 00:49:20,516
[crowd] <i>♪ She won't forsake me ♪</i>

881
00:49:20,600 --> 00:49:22,716
[cheering, whistling]

882
00:49:22,800 --> 00:49:26,000
<i>♪ I'm loving angels instead ♪</i>

883
00:49:28,960 --> 00:49:30,960
[cheering]

884
00:49:33,160 --> 00:49:35,160
[music fades]

885
00:49:36,000 --> 00:49:39,636
[current Robbie] It felt like
this is what I'm supposed to be doin'!

886
00:49:39,720 --> 00:49:41,720
[pensive music playing]

887
00:49:50,800 --> 00:49:55,200
But then you realize,
subconsciously or consciously, that

888
00:49:57,080 --> 00:49:58,160
"I can't go back."

889
00:50:05,080 --> 00:50:06,960
[cheering, whistling]

890
00:50:09,680 --> 00:50:11,320
I'm on a runaway train.

891
00:50:12,840 --> 00:50:15,516
And this was gonna grow bigger
and bigger and bigger.

892
00:50:15,600 --> 00:50:17,516
[cheering, whistling]

893
00:50:17,600 --> 00:50:19,600
[intense music playing]

894
00:50:23,920 --> 00:50:25,920
[music slows]

895
00:50:29,480 --> 00:50:31,960
I'm not looking forward
to watching what's next.

896
00:50:35,360 --> 00:50:37,640
I didn't have the tools to deal with

897
00:50:39,480 --> 00:50:40,440
what's to come.

898
00:50:41,520 --> 00:50:43,520
[music intensifies]

899
00:50:44,360 --> 00:50:46,080
[crowd chanting] Robbie! Robbie!

900
00:50:55,040 --> 00:50:56,480
[chanting continues]

901
00:51:03,880 --> 00:51:05,880
[music fades]

902
00:51:10,200 --> 00:51:12,200
[cheering]

903
00:51:16,200 --> 00:51:17,956
[cheering intensifies]

904
00:51:18,040 --> 00:51:19,800
[cheering ends abruptly]

905
00:51:20,960 --> 00:51:22,960
["Strong" playing]

906
00:51:43,400 --> 00:51:45,956
<i>♪ My breath smells of a thousand fags ♪</i>

907
00:51:46,040 --> 00:51:48,876
<i>♪ And when I'm drunk I dance like me dad ♪</i>

908
00:51:48,960 --> 00:51:52,520
<i>♪ I've started to dress a bit like him ♪</i>

909
00:51:54,480 --> 00:51:57,196
<i>♪ And early morning when I wake up ♪</i>

910
00:51:57,280 --> 00:51:59,996
<i>♪ I look like KISS
But without the makeup ♪</i>

911
00:52:00,080 --> 00:52:03,640
<i>♪ And that's a good line
To take it to the bridge ♪</i>

912
00:52:05,760 --> 00:52:07,796
<i>♪ And you know, and you know ♪</i>

913
00:52:07,880 --> 00:52:11,000
<i>♪ 'Cause my life's a mess ♪</i>

914
00:52:11,560 --> 00:52:16,836
<i>♪ And I'm trying to grow
So before I'm old I'll confess ♪</i>

915
00:52:16,920 --> 00:52:21,040
<i>♪ You think that I'm strong ♪</i>

916
00:52:21,640 --> 00:52:27,040
<i>♪ You're wrong, you're wrong ♪</i>

917
00:52:28,040 --> 00:52:32,320
<i>♪ I sing my song ♪</i>

918
00:52:32,840 --> 00:52:38,160
<i>♪ My song, my song ♪</i>

919
00:52:39,120 --> 00:52:41,676
<i>♪ My bed's full of takeaways ♪</i>

920
00:52:41,760 --> 00:52:44,516
<i>♪ And fantasies of easy lays ♪</i>

921
00:52:44,600 --> 00:52:48,000
<i>♪ The pause button's broke on my video</i> ... ♪

