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You don’t come to a Robbie Williams gig for understatement. The singer kicks off his Hyde Park gig with a video sequence, in which he sits reading a newspaper bearing a headline that asks: “Is Robbie Williams the greatest living entertainer?” He then strides around the backstage area, carrying a tiny cardboard cut out of Noel Gallagher and flanked (for reasons that will later become slightly clearer) by Danny Dyer as his de facto bodyguard, before emerging onto the stage like a jack-in-the-box to the opening chords of “Let Me Entertain You”.
