Robbie Williams is about to do the unthinkable – he’s dropping Angels from his setlist.
It’s his most iconic song, and one that is probably sung approximately 264 times a week in karaoke sessions across the globe, and yet the Robster has decided enough is enough, he doesn’t want to sing Angels anymore.
Largely because he struggles to.
The ex-Take That star, 43, has a new tour in the works and as the focus will be new material, there just isn’t the space for all his old hits. And as Angels is just too damn emotional to sing he has said that will be the first to go to make way for the fresh stuff. Only his most iconic song. Nay, THE most iconic song. There isn’t anyone on this Earth who doesn’t attempt to hit that high note at some point when drunk.
He said of the 1997 track: ‘I have to hold myself together or I could cry at everything and look pathetic.
‘There are people who put posters up before Angels about their mum or dad who died and I think ‘Oh God, I am going to cry’. It did affect me.’
He added to the Daily Star: ‘People want an Under The Radar gig and I will do it.’
In all fairness, Robbie can do what he pleases, we’re just happy to have him up on stage belting out his tracks given the year he’s had.
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Towards the end of 2017 he revealed he’d suffered ‘brain abnormalities’ which left him fighting for his life and forced him to cancel gigs to recover.
The 43-year-old told The Sun: ‘That was obviously very scary, so the decision was taken out of my hands and I was sent straight to the intensive care unit.
‘It’s very weird to go from being on tour to suddenly being in intensive care, but that’s where I found myself.’
Rob said he first started to feel something was wrong when he was about to go on stage in Zurich at the beginning of September when he lost the feeling in his left arm and ‘couldn’t stop dribbling out of the side of my mouth’.
He also struggled to breath and a doctor had to be called backstage. However he was told he could carry on with the tour.
So if we have to sacrifice Angels to get the Robster back on stage, so be it.
All together now, ‘and through it aallllllllll….’
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