Robbie Williams reveals that his time in Take That became a power struggle and compares it to Lord of The Flies before he quit with “a boot full of champagne and a pocket full of cocaine”.
The Rock DJ singer was embroiled in a nasty feud with Gary Barlow over who sang lead vocals on the bands songs, something which had been brewing since the groups beginning. “It’s a 32-year musical odyssey,” he told the audience at London’s O2. “The highest of highs, the lowest of lows. The drugs, the sex, the scandal... the meat pies.”
He jokes of the group’s formation in 1990: “The Berlin Wall had just come down, Margaret Thatcher had just resigned, and Nelson Mandela had taken his first steps to freedom... but a more seismic event was about to happen, with four men from in and around Manchester and a guy from Stoke-on-Trent.”
