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Fri 10 Oct 2009"I'm either a genius, or a charlatan or a half-wit, and quite often all three"
Professional cheeky chappie Robbie Williams is about to unleash his eighth album. He has learned to sit still, has got sober, shaved his beard and made friends with Take That. But has the Peter Pan of pop grown up? He talks to LAUREN MURPHY
ROBBIE WILLIAMS was driving down the M6 with his girlfriend last November when he realised that he wanted to be a pop star again. But don’t call it a comeback: although he’s been ensconced in his Los Angeles home for the past three years growing a fantastically bushy beard (now sadly gone), falling in love and indulging his love of ghost sightings, UFO-hunting and conspiracy theories, he’s never strayed far from music. Not really.
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