Robbie Williams Info Board

Despite signing a mammoth £80million contract with the music giants, we hear bosses are nervous about his forthcoming album. They are concerned it won't be a patch on 2003's mega-selling Escapology.

Reportedly called Intensive Care, the record is due for release in the autumn. It will be the first solo album Robbie, 31, has penned without the help of his former songwriting partner Guy Chambers.

A highly-placed industry insider tells us: "There's absolutely no question of Robbie being dropped by EMI, but there are a lot of worries about the new album.

"People are nervous about what the new material will sound like, especially with Guy Chambers no longer involved. They're worried it will be an anti-climax. "It doesn't help that Robbie is so hard to work with. All the people he surrounds himself with are sycophantic "yes" men and women.

"No one around him is prepared to be critical and wouldn't dream of giving him any negative feedback. "Some of the people who have to work on his upcoming campaign are dreading it because they know what hard work he is, but there's nothing they can do because he's holding all the cards. "Someone actually said the whole thing was going to be a 'nightmare'."

Instead of the award-winning Chambers, LA-based Rob is now collaborating with Stephen "Tintin" Duffy - who has the dubious honour of being the only recording artist in Britain to be dropped by five major labels.

Although their first offering, Radio, topped the charts, the follow-up, Misunderstood, only made it to No.8. Earlier this month, Robbie also came a disappointing 91st in a poll to find the Top 100 albums ever with his second solo work, I've Been Expecting You. But the international pop star is far from becoming a has-been.

In February he notched up a record-breaking 15th Brit Award - four of them were with Take That - when he picked up the Best Song Of The Past 25 Years gong for Angels. A music biz source says: "No matter what the record label thinks of Robbie he's still the biggest star in Britain." Here's hoping Intensive Care survives without emergency treatment after all...
Quelle: Mirror