Robbie Williams Born: Britain's Pop Showman
Robbie Williams was fired from Take That by fax. The official statement said he'd left by mutual agreement. He was twenty-one with no solo contract and a reputation for being difficult. Angels was recorded two years later and became the most-played song at British funerals and weddings for a decade straight. He followed it with forty-five UK number-one singles. The record he holds — most albums simultaneously charting in the UK — has never been matched.
February 13, 1974
52 years ago
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