Album Review: Robbie Williams - Reality Killed The Video Star
ROBBIE WILLIAMS
Reality Killed The Video Star
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Virgin Music CDV 3064, 12.72
Produced by erstwhile Buggle Trevor Horn, Robbie Williams' latest album recovers some of the ground he lost with the brittle Rudebox.
The Beatles references – I Am The Walrus on Morning Sun for starters – are rather hackneyed, but for more fun check the Gregorian chanting on Bodies and the hammy word play of Blasphemy, which has more sniggering lyrical asides than Christopher Biggins in panto. Meanwhile, Do You Know's speeded up take on the Smoke On The Water riff, and the elastic synthesised twang of Last Days Of Disco, suggest he may still be able to entertain you after all.
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• This article was first published in Scotland on Sunday on 08/11/09
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