Robert Peter Williams: born February 13, 1974 in Burslem, Stoke-On-Trent, Staffordshire, Originally a member of boy band Take That, he split from the group in 1995 and launched a solo career, following a highly publicized battle with drug and alcohol addiction during which he put on nearly 40 pounds (18 kg) and was often seen in public poorly dressed, dirty and unshaven. Although Robbie battled hard with his demons for many years, he did in fact manage to over come his addiction to drugs and alcohol.

Robbie spent many months in and out of rehab clinics and while in one he was allowed out for the day to make the video to "Lazy Days".

Robbie was once kidnapped by Elton John and put in a rehab clinic as he was afraid that Robbie was on the path to his own distruction and would soon be dead, if help was not given soon. Robbie went out one new years eve leaving from his mothers house in Stoke-On-Trent, only to return twelve months later after moving in with some one in London and spending a year drinking and taking drugs. When he returned to his mothers house, he put his bag down and said "That was some party Mum".

Robbie has now been clean since 2000 and has proved that he is a fantastic singer,song writer and a born entertainer. Robbie Williams will be around for along time to come and like all fans i look forward to the future with Robbie.

Before his rising as a superstar, Robbie used to hang in 1996 with the Gallagher brothers.

Robbie expected to get some Noel-written songs so he could start a career. After few months with cocaine-fueled parties, the loud-mouthed brothers showed him the door.

In 1996 he released his first solo single 'Freedom', a cover of the 1990 George Michael hit. Though this was a success it was not until the release of the single 'Angels' that his solo career took off in Europe. Although it reached number one in many countries, it only managed to get to number four in the official UK singles chart in December 1997 – he would have to wait until September 19, 1998 for his first number one with 'Millennium', which also charted in the USA. The song was built around a sample from the theme to the James Bond film 'You Only Live twice', and the accompanying video featured numerous 007 references.

Williams quickly became a major celebrity in the UK with numerous top ten singles. In 1999 he collaberated with singer Tom Jones for a track on the album Reload.

He broke the United States in 2000 with his hit song 'Rock DJ'. The video featured Williams in a roller disoc as he stripped nude and then proceeded to strip off his own flesh, musule tissue and organs until he was a dancing selekton. It is said that the frontal nudity was edited out in the US while the gore was left in, whereas the opposite was true for the UK. The video's ending was cut by many TV stations around the world and the whole video was forbidden in some countries (VH1 Europe even made their own video out of recording studio footage). Williams has built quite a reputation for appearing nude (or nearly nude) in photographs, videos and live performances.

His global success was cemented after a duet cover version of the Frank and Nancy Sinarta song 'Somethin' Stupid' with Aussie actress Nicole Kidman, who was fresh off of her Oscar-nomnated performance in Moulin Rouge. In 2002 he released an album, called Swing When You're Winning in which his image was tamed down and he sang jazz, blues and pop standards from the fifties. Williams' cover of the Bobby Darin classic 'Beyond the Sea' was included in the Finding Nemo soundtrack.

In 2002 he stopped working with his long-term writing partner Guy Chambers, who had co-written most of his singles. However, they regrouped again after six months during the making of his next album, Escapology, which was released in late 2002. The first single from it, 'Feel', had big success arround Europe. The video for the next single, 'Come Undone', featured Williams having sex at a party (actually with his pants on). Therefore a censored version was released that MTV networks Europe chose to edit a little more and to play it only to the half.

Williams appears in the 2002 List of the '100 Greatest Britons' (sponsored by the BBC and voted for by the public).In August 2003 Robbie sold three nights at Knebworth house and played to over 375,000 people in those three nights.He toured Australia and New Zealnad in December of 2003 with Duran Duran and performed the title song for the movie Johnny English. An official biography "FEEL' released in september2004, has become an instant bestseller in the UK since its publication.

His Greatest Hits album was released on 18th october 2004. The first new single to be taken from the album was called 'Radio' (has an 80s new wave feel), which went straight to number one, selling just over 40,000 copies in the first week. The other new track on the album is called 'Misunderstood' and did not fair as well as expected, making a mere #8, due to high sales of Band Aid 20 keeping it away from the top, on which he did perform. It is featured on the soundtrack to Bridget Jones's Diary 2.

Robbie has just released he new album Intensive Care with the first single being Tripping that went to number one in several countries around the world. His second single from the album is Adversting Space and is currently number two on the Australian singles chart.