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Live At The Albert is primarily a showcase for Robbie's multi million selling Swing When You're Winning, an astonishing album of vintage classics from the '50s swing era, originally sung by Robbie's heroes, namely, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jnr and of course, the legendary Frank Sinatra. Live At The Albert features several live duets including "Well, Did You Evah?" with Jon Lovitz and thanks to the miracle of modern technology, a duet with the late great Frank Sinatra himself. Live At the Albert is a young man fulfilling a childhood dream; wearing a tux, backed by an old style big band and playing to an adoring (sold out) audience at London's famous Royal Albert Hall, with his mom in the front row.

The first time I watched Robbie Williams live concert at London's Royal Albert Hall, on a Saturday evening last November, I was so impressed I went straight online at Amazon to review his debut U.S. release The Ego Has Landed. "The Ego Has Landed" refers to Robbie's often brash public statements about himself, which (if taken at face value) suggest that he is a bit of an ego-maniac. However, despite much of his rhetoric, Robbie Williams has in the past turned to both booze and drugs to conquer his fears and self-doubt. Thankfully he survived both or we would have been deprived of the world's greatest showman. For in a pop world inhabitated by characterless pre-packaged record company girl and boybands and goody two shoes solo-singers (a la Ricky Martin and Britney Spears) Robbie Williams is something of a rarity; the genuine article, a complete showman with a checkered past and a very bright future, having recently signed a British record deal with EMI worth a cool £80 million (approx $110 million), to deliver four more albums.

Robbie Williams formerly of Boy band Take That graduated to the forefront of the British music scene with his single "Angels" and has never looked back since. Several number ones and many many hits later he is not only established as a credible singer/songwriter, he is quite simply Britain's biggest and brightest star. Robbie Williams makes fantastic, original and very funny videos (Rock DJ, She's The One, Millenium and A Love Supreme for example) and regularly plays to sold out stadiums around the world and the only two nuts he still has to crack are America and the movies.

But why is America still cynical? A lack of airplay in America? A lack of record company publicity? I don't know. All I know is that, in my opinion, he is the greatest showman to have graced a music stage since the late great Freddie Mercury. He is so good live that he has played at several festivals on the same bill as Indie bands such as the Prodigy, and stolen the show from them, in front of what would traditionally be hostile audiences for a pop performer. Live tickets for Robbie Williams shows are like gold dust in every place bar North America, such is his reputation for putting on a great live show. If you don't believe the hype then you need to watch Live at the Albert and be converted. Robbie Williams has got a great sense of humour, a great sense of style and a great deal of class and frankly America, you don't know what you are missing!!

a night to remember
Robbie Williams is a great singer and everybody should check this live DVD. It's a celebration of old classics performed to a very selected audience, in an one night only concert at Royal Albert Hall. Robbie performs with a big band, recreating some classics --"Things", "Beyond the sea", "my way", etc. There's an original song composed for Robbie's album called "I will talk and hollywood will listen" which captures the show spirit. Robbie is an interesting artist, because he's on the stage in a tribute to Mr. Sinatra, but at the same time tells dirty jokes and talk with the audience. One of the greatest moments of the show happens when Robbie sings a very emotional duet with Mr. Sinatra, featured at the big screen on the stage. The royal albert hall did not resist the performance of "my way", leading Robbie to tears with the audience's response to this song.

I'm sure some people may have criticized Robbie for taking the big step of performing sinatra's songs. But if you watch this show, you'll see he is a very talented singer and did a great job. The show/CD are a tribute and an invtation to his fans, who probably do not listen to old classics.

But the DVD has a lot to offer. Besides the whole concert, it brings a documentary "Well sung" with the backstage and recording process of Robbie's CD. "The day job" is also a documentary, with bits of Robbie's videos and performances for TV. Very intriguing! Also the DVD has the "somethin'stupid" video and the backstage of the shooting with nicole kidman.

Two things I missed: the live performance of "somethi'stupid", even without nicole, and english subtitles to the great songs performed.

Anyway, it's a 5-stars DVD!

Robbie Williams: Big Talent + Humor = Hardcore Goodness!
I really don't understand why Robbie isn't the household name in America that he is all over the rest of the world. His first American release "The Ego Has Landed" (a compilation of his first two U.K. albums) is one of the best albums EVER.

This is Robbie's third DVD to be released on these shores and it's every bit as good as the first two! If this is your first experience of Robbie- be forewarned. His previous albums are not swing music at all. He's a pop/rock GOD. Doing a swing album just shows that he is an artist in the truest sense. He could have easily recorded another album of pop gems (why fix something that isn't broken?), but instead decided on doing something a bit risky. Imagine Harry Connick, Jr. by way of Tom Jones doing a Las Vegas show and Robbie is what you get. Robbie has packed the DVD FULL o' his out of this world goodness. Anyone that purchases this DVD will not be sorry! Robbie performs most of the songs that are on his "Swing When Your Winning" cd (which hasn't been released in the U.S. yet, inexplicably! How strange that this DVD came out here!) Someone forgot to include the track listing on the DVD cover, so here are the songs that he performs:

1.) Have You Met Miss Jones?
2.) Mack The Knife
3.) Straighten Up And Fly Right
4.) Let's Face The Music And Dance
5.) Well, Did You Evah
6.) The Lady Is A Tramp
7.) Things
8.) One For My Baby
9.) Mr. Bonjangles
10.) I Will Talk And Hollywood Will Listen
11.) Do Nothin' Until You Hear From Me
12.) Beyond The Sea
13.) Me And My Shadow
14.) Ain't That A Kick In The Head
15.) It Was A Very Good Year
16.) My Way

Robbie's duet with Nicole Kidman, "Somethin' Stupid" (from the "Swing When You're Winning" cd) isn't performed live (although Nicole is in the audience), but the video is featured here. It's one of the BEST videos EVER! This is the uncut version of the video. (An alternate version of the video that featured scenes from Nicole Kidman's "Birthday Girl" movie with scenes from this video appeared on Vh-1.)

Also appearing on this DVD are Rupert Everett, Jane Horrocks (Bubble from "Absolutely Fabulous" and star of the movie "Little Voice") and ex-Saturday Night Live cast member Jon Lovitz (who knew he could sing? And why did Robbie choose him for a duet? It's sort of weird, but it works!)

With this concert Robbie proves that he is an absolutely brilliant performer. It's only a matter of time until he winds up with a huge movie career. (Hopefully there's a little bit of truth to the rumor that he could be the next James Bond!)

I was sort of hoping that Robbie's entire video for "Millennium" would have been tucked away on this DVD as an extra (about a minute or two of it appear in the extras section). It's his biggest U.S. hit but for some reason it does not appear on EITHER of his previous DVD's "Angels" or "Where Egos Dare". It wouldn't really fit in with the context of this, but it would have been nice to have that video on DVD finally. Anyway, this DVD also contains backstage and aftershow footage, a documentary on the making of the "Swing When You Are Winning" album, and a gallery of Robbie photos. Not to be missed!