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Just Williams: Robbie Williams: Life Thru A Lens (EMI)

Johnny Cigarettes, New Musical Express, 27 September 1997

RARE IS THE POP STAR who finds his true vocation. That's because they're a bunch of moaning, jealous malcontents who always want what everyone else has got. And that's why they're famous in the first place. All pop stars want to be credible rock stars. All credible rock bands secretly want to sell loads of records and shag teenagers. And never the twain shall meet.

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