On this day in 1995 Robbie Williams broke a million hearts by announcing he’d decided to leave the band Take That.
Phone lines were set up to help the devastated fans come to terms with the 21-year-old’s decision that after five years he planned to go solo.
There were tears, there were tantrums, there were pilgrimages to his home town to lay flowers for the death of music as we knew it.
But then Robbie surprised everyone by proving Everything Changes for the better – six of his solo albums are in the top 100 best selling albums, he’s sold more than 77 million albums and singles world wide and in… Read the full story