![]() Intensive Care was not even released in North America. Williams was enjoying his recent move to California at the time. Case in point: 2005’s Intensive Care went to the top of the charts across Europe, Australia, and Latin America, shortly before he entered the Guinness Book of World Records for selling the highest number of concert tickets ever sold in one day (1.6 million). Williams has always struggled with the schizophrenia of being the biggest pop star in the free world at the same time he couldn’t get arrested in the US. Produced by Trevor Horn of Buggles fame (hence the title’s riff on “Video Killed the Radio Star”), the album is a solid contribution to Williams’ catalogue, but doesn’t achieve the peerless pop and dance genius of The Ego Has Landed (1999) or Sing When You’re Winning (2000). Because the simple fact is that Williams hasn’t made a great album since he parted company with former songwriting partner Chambers in 2005, and Reality Killed the Video Star, his ninth studio release, is not going to change that. And then there are those of us who still carry a torch, hoping against hope that someday, somehow, even after all these years… Robbie Williams and Guy Chambers will get back together. ![]() Others never recovered from the split of Morrissey and Johnny Marr. Some people never got over their parents’ divorce. ![]()
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