Just over three decades into his musical career – and 25 years since going solo – there’s rarely been a better time to be Robbie Williams. Sober, happily settled and soon to be the subject of a Netflix docuseries as well as a cinematic biopic entitled Better Man, last month the 48-year-old singer scored his 14th UK number one album with reorchestrated greatest hits compilation XXV, smashing Elvis Presley’s record.
The amount of blue sky between his current state of affairs and previous well-publicised drama is certainly not lost on Williams, who opened his UK and Ireland tour by vowing to honour his “32-year musical odyssey, from the highest of highs to the lowest of lows.”
