"I'm Robbie f****n Williams" he tells Manchester as he takes to the stage for the first of three nights at the AO Arena.
The man needs no introduction. Judging by the average age of most of us concert goers, we've all witnessed the ups and downs of the lad from Stoke-on-Trent who hit the bigtime with boyband Take That.
It's a career spanning more than three decades he tells us, as he promises to take us on a journey of his '32 year musical odyssey'.
