Gary Barlow The musician and song-writer around whom the band was initially built, his was the most anticipated solo career. Instead he would recall “watching with horror” as Williams shot into the stratosphere while he earned a living writing songs for Donny Osmond.
Doesn’t your heart just sink at the words “very big in Germany”. And he is not even the Hoff! Still I guess they like plastic manufactured fake groups over there (although I still maintain a faint hope for the artistic integrity of Bony M – even though I fully accept that only a German could think that Rasputin was an appropriate topic for a pop song).
However you have to feel for this guy. Fame is a fickle and cruel mistress. But even by pop’s standards, Robbie William’s career is odd.