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Dom Robinson reviews

Robbie Williams: Angels

Distributed by
EMI Chrysalis

Robbie Williams: Angels is one of the first DVD EPs released by Abbey Road Interactive along with Blur: No Distance Left To Run.

This disc contains seven videos (inc. two hidden tracks), three of which were hits (Angels, Lazy Days & South of the Border) and four non-single tracks, plus Robbie's poems, interviews and a game of Find the Joker which provides access to the hidden songs.

Angels may not have been the highest-charting solo song in the man's career, making No.5 in December 1997, but is quite possibly the most played of all his tunes on the radio and gained Robbie the Best Single and Video awards at the Brit Awards 1999.

When Robbie Williams left Take That on July 18th, 1995, the day I started my current top-secret 9-5 job, it signalled the beginning of the end for the famed boy-band. Of the solo stars who would emerge the winner as they each went their separate ways? As Robbie's singles began to sell less and less, it looked like Gary Barlow would do the business, especially as he had the first No.1 of the lot with Forever Love, while Robbie's Freedom stalled at No.2.

However, as time progressed, a last throw of the dice from Robbie's record company saw the ballad, Angels, released to an unsuspecting public and it grew to be one of his fans biggest ever singles in terms of the coverage it continues to get.

Having reached the top of the album charts with both Life Thru a Lens and I've Been Expecting You, his solo singles chart history to the end of 1999 is as follows :

Click on any of the above highlighted links to access my music chart analysis for the week in which it was at that position.

The picture quality is spot-on perfect with zero artifacts. Most of the footage is in 4:3, although the occasional promo is matted to a slight widescreen ratio. Every bit of the DVD is split into individual chapters, totalling 40, so I'm not about to work out the average bitrate by hand...

The sound is Linear PCM Stereo and sounds perfectly fine, booming out where required for Lazy Days and South of the Border, while softening down for the ballad Angels.

Extras. :

Chapters :

Although there are 40 separate chapters on the disc, there's 7 individual music tracks. The track listing is as follows :

The first five are the main tracks you can initially select, but one of the last two are played when you've successfully won the Find the Joker game.

Languages/Lyrics :

Stereo sound and lyrics available in English.

And there's more :

Short but sweet, the Interviews snippets show Robbie discussing the topics of Angels and Glastonbury, there are three Poems, "Hello, Sir", "Thankyou For Letting Me Be Me" and "Naked At An Awards Ceremony".

Finally, the Find the Joker game is a standard 3-card affair in which revealing Robbie dressed as the joker, from his Let Me Entertain You promo, will reveal a bonus music video as described above. For those with DVD-ROM players though, once you know which of three chapters results in which card being the joker, it takes the guessing game out of it...

...but by then you'll also know in which chapters the bonus tracks are so can go straight to those anyway.

Menu :

The menu may be static but it occasionally features cheeky comments from Robbie, including an introduction on the main menu. The backdrop is the cover to his USA compilation album release, The Ego Has Landed, which combines the best tracks from his first two albums.

Overall this is a nice little package at a cheap price and worth a look for any of his fans, or anyone who wants to check out an intriguing little DVD. Robbie's music isn't always my cup of tea, the best ones for me being Lazy Days, South of the Border and No Regrets, but he's certainly one of pop's busiest showmen.

The Brit Awards 2000 saw Robbie bring his total of gongs to nine, this time winning Best Video and Single for last year's Xmas hit, She's The One.

NB.: The certificate "12" is only in respect of the poems on this disc. Yes, the f-word is used. 

FILM	 		: ***
PICTURE QUALITY		: *****
SOUND QUALITY		: *****
EXTRAS			: **
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OVERALL			: **** and a scrap with Liam Gallagher

Also, it's worthy of note that Abbey Road Interactive have been involved with the following DVDs that I have already reviewed :


Flash Gordon -- Bean -- The Graduate -- Raw Deal -- This is Spinal Tap

Please click on any of these pictures to access those reviews

Review copyright © Dominic Robinson, 2000.

Check out the Official Robbie Williams site.

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