Guy Chambers

...a la 10CC and a nagging sense of loss. And I can't help but be sucked in by Blasphemy, the last song Williams wrote with co-writer Guy Chambers some six years ago, which pairs some of his most lacerating lyrics with an almost folk...

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...didn't die for you/me" - a line one might have expected in "Blasphemy", the last song Williams co-wrote with Guy Chambers. Here, to a chamber-pop setting of piano, oboe and strings, he trots out a few typically tactless references to...

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...of electro and bad rapping, he's gone back to the styles that made him so titanically popular in the days before he sacked Guy Chambers. In the past, three types of song served Williams well and we find them all here. First, in the...

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...the chimp walk and miming fellatio with a TV camera, he takes the "y" out of "cocky". The new material is a mixed bag. There's a lost Guy Chambers song built on a terrible "blasphemy"/"blast for me" pun, a soppy number called "I Won't Do...

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...material ranges from the terse, twitchy orchestral-techno of "Bodies" to the chamber-pop of "Blasphemy" - the last song Williams wrote with Guy Chambers, he explains. The obvious "I Am the Walrus" influence on the string arrangement of...

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...past the electro experiments of Rudebox, Williams has returned to the template he established with his original collaborator, Guy Chambers: meaty, mainstream pop with twists of lyrical wit, irony and imagination. There is even a new...

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...hasn't leaked. Ha!" Other new tracks unveiled included 'Blasphemy', the last song Williams wrote with former songwriting partner Guy Chambers, upbeat George Michael-esque dance track 'Starstruck', a love song written for his girlfriend called...

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Frank Sinatra...') Robbie immersed himself in the business of becoming a solo artist. He moved to Los Angeles, hooked up with songwriter Guy Chambers and produced some of the biggest hits of the decade from Angels to Come Undone, Let Me...

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Return to form for Robbie Williams The album features a song co-written with Williams's ex-producer Guy Chambers Robbie Williams says his new album Reality Killed The Video Star marks a "turning point" in his career. Out on 9 November,...

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...they will submit their views to the government on the proposed new law before Tuesday. Film composer David Arnold, songwriter Guy Chambers, Billy Bragg, singer Patrick Wolf, sixties star Sandie Shaw and Keane's Tim Rice-Oxley were among...

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