It´s Been 20 Years Since Robbie Williams Failed To Take America
(WorldNews Music)

Arriving at the Los Angeles home of former ’90s boy band singer Robbie Williams in early 2008, journalist and author Jon Ronson was greeted by a bearded and bulky version of the Brit, who had invited Ronson to join him on a trip to the International UFO Congress, which was taking place at an unglamorous casino resort in Laughlin, Nevada. A decade prior, Williams’ was in the ascendant on the back of “Angels� in his home country, where he and songwriting partner Guy Chambers were soon to compose another surefire hit, “Millennium.� Now here he was, spending a sunny LA day watching alien DVDs with the curtains drawn. Yet this was not a case of pop ambition...