Robbie Williams
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I sold double glazing in Stoke when I was 16. That was for two weeks. Other than that, I’ve never really had a “job”.
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I worked in the stores of Edgware hospital when I was about 17, and it was grey and depressing.
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Pressing uniforms in a laundry. I was 14. I lied about my age and said I was 16, even though I probably looked about 12.
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I once had to dress up as [fast food chain] Supermac’s bunny during a St Patrick’s Day parade and shake people’s hands. Kids kept trying to take off my gloves and punching my bunny head. It was awful.
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View profile →My dad said, “You’re going nowhere.” I was seven or eight.
On stage – the Old Vic in 1981 and Glastonbury last year.
Gerry Adams, because he’s got incredible integrity and vision, and he’s had to put up with so much flak.
The contentment I have now.
I’d have stuck with the original Dexys Midnight Runners look we started in 1978, which became known as the New Romantic look a couple of years later. Our management and record label talked us out of it. Later, Duran Duran and Spandau came out with that look and that made us look old-fashioned.
My brother Pete passing on in 2005.
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