A documentary shows the singer's struggles with addiction amid extreme fame. It's a tale as old as time - but nobody seems to know what to do about it
Robbie Williams watches three decades of old footage of himself along with us and commentates on how he was feeling at the time A documentary shows the singer’s struggles with addiction amid extreme fame. It’s a tale as old as time – but nobody seems to know what to do about ithit rock bottom, he was on an impressive cocktail of prescription drugs.
He has grown from hyperactive pup to wiry, wary jackal, the cheeky-chappy madness in his eyes replaced almost entirely by what seems like exhaustion and resignation, thehaircuts of his youth grown out into a shaggy grey mullet. He has the air of an expat you’d encounter at a yoga retreat in Portugal, who has lived there, shoeless, for an unspecified amount of time, who gives you lots of sage advice but about whom you find yourself worrying when you leave.
On his own, Williams pushed forward, somehow embodying the multiple strains of pop culture that were blossoming in the late 90s. He had a bit of everything: Britpop cool, boyband charm, Northern groundedness, youthful vulnerability, raver hair. After a couple of years of struggle, he broke through with “Angels” in 1997, written with the songwriter Guy Chambers, who would become his long-term collaborator.
The documentary attempts a happily-ever-after, but there is a slightly bizarre atmosphere. Williams is too traumatised to watch some of the footage, and seems – understandably – utterly miserable to be doing it the rest of the time. We come out with no real sense of who he is. At the end, he goes back out on tour – because, as he shouted to 75,000 people at his famous 2003 Knebworth gig, “this is what I do – I’m a singer and an entertainer”.
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