Robbie Williams quit Take That with a 'boot full of champagne and a pocket of cocaine'

Susan Boyle danced all night to Robbie Williams after the star invited her to his gig at the Ovo Hydro in Glasgow. The I Dreamed a Dream singer told pals she was in her element as she let Robbie entertain her.

Susan Boyle danced all night to Robbie Williams after the star invited her to his gig at the Ovo Hydro in Glasgow.

APPOINTMENTSExceleration Music has appointed former Warner Music and Amazon Music exec David Gorman as its Creative Director. “I was instantly drawn to Exceleration’s mission, passion, values, and independent, entrepreneurial spirit, all of which have been on full display since we first started talking”, he says.

Jessica Chastain regrets not thanking Robin Williams in person for paying for her college education. The Oscar-winning actress was awarded a scholarship to the Juilliard School in New York City in the late '90s, with the grant funded by the actor/comedian. Reflecting on the importance of the scholarship during an appearance on The Kelly Clarkson Show on Monday, Jessica noted that the funding changed her life.

EXCLUSIVE: Jesse Williams is returning as director and guest star in the fifth episode of the medical drama’s upcoming 19th season, reprising his role as Dr. Jackson Avery. Airing Nov. 3 and titled “When I Get to the Border,” it will be the fourth episode of the show that Williams has directed.

Robbie Williams was back doing what he does best as he took to the stage to kick off his latest tour with an energetic, nostalgia-fuelled extravaganza at London’s O2 arena.READ: Robbie Williams' wife Ayda Field sparks reaction with cheeky bedroom photo of singerAnd there, making sure his beloved family play a starring role every step of the way, was his proud wife Ayda Field Williams – who had a rather important job behind the scenes as she and her family prepared to embark on the UK and Ireland leg of Robbie’s XXV tour. “I will be in tow with four children ready to get up to my own naughtiness and cheekiness,” Ayda tells HELLO! Ayda looks amazing in her sportswear"I’ll have to hold our [ten-year-old] daughter Teddy back from jumping up on the stage.

Jon Burlingame editor The centennial of Henry Mancini, composer of “The Pink Panther,” “Moon River” and other movie songs, isn’t until 2024. But the celebration began on Thursday when an all-star parade of Oscar, Emmy and Grammy-winning musicians got together to re-record one of his most famous works: “Peter Gunn.” With legendary composers John Williams and Herbie Hancock on keyboards, jazz great Arturo Sandoval on trumpet and music mogul Quincy Jones conducting an 18-piece band of L.A. session players, Mancini’s 1958 TV theme rocked the Warner Bros. scoring stage all afternoon. It was old home week for many, who seemingly spent half the three-hour session embracing, laughing and snapping photos. Williams and Jones called each other “Q” and “John T.,” the nicknames they had when the two were toiling side-by-side at Universal Television in the 1960s, before each started collecting Oscars and Grammys for their work in films and records.

Robbie Williams has announced a special 25th anniversary reissue of his 1997 debut album ‘Life Thru A Lens’.The singer originally released his first solo LP in September 1997, which featured such songs as ‘Angels’, ‘Let Me Entertain You’ and ‘Old Before I Die’.Williams will now release a deluxe edition of ‘Life Thru A Lens’ via UMC/Island Records on December 2 to celebrate the record’s 25th anniversary.

Robbie Williams reportedly joked being flashed by a female fan on the first night of his new tour made him feel like a “diabetic in a cake shop”. The 48-year-old singer – happily married to Ayda Field – is said to have made the gag when one of the crowd at London’s O2 bared her chest on Sunday (09. 10.

Robbie Williams has said that partying with Oasis at Glastonbury in 1995 was the “start of his new life”.Williams made the comments as he kicked off his ‘XXV Tour’ at The O2 in London on Sunday (October 9).Williams reminisced on stage about the memory of partying with Oasis at the festival shortly after he made the decision to leave Take That.While relations between Williams and the Gallagher brothers later took a turn, Williams acknowledged that the moment was central to him starting on a new path.Before performing a cover of Oasis’ ‘Don’t Look Back In Anger’, Williams said: “I started getting ideas about writing my own songs. One thing led to another and I made the cardinal mistake of breaking the rules.

William Earl Variety has announced the lineup for its annual Business of Broadway breakfast presented by City National Bank in New York on Oct. 17. Samuel L. Jackson and LaTanya Richardson Jackson will join the event for a keynote conversation about their collaboration on the revival of August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson,” currently playing on Broadway. The programming will also include a Broadway producers panel moderated by Erik Piecuch, senior vice president and entertainment banking leader of City National Bank. The panel will feature Lee Daniels (“Ain’t No Mo’”), Cindy Tolan (“Death of a Salesman”), LaChanze (“Kimberly Akimbo” and “Topdog/Underdog”) and Ken Davenport (“A Beautiful Noise”). The producers will speak about their experiences premiering new productions on Broadway this season and how the business has changed since Broadway’s return.

Robbie Williams says all today’s musicians look and sound the same. The ex-Take That singer, 48, said today’s charts are nothing like the “madness” and diversity of the range from the late-1980s. He told the Daily Mail on Tuesday: (04.