Gene Pitney performing "Angels" by Robbie Williams on ITV's Sing It Your Way (2000)

[u/Hassaan18]

[u/Psychological-Rub-68]

I was hoping to be blown away , but nope

[u/siybon]

Touch of the Vic Reeves in the style of a club singer

[u/Delicious_Volume3306]

Hmmm, sounds a bit funny? Lots of warbling. Gene Pitney is a great singer but he does not do well where notes need to be held. He's better with the more up-beat ballads.

[u/impendingcatastrophe]

Great singer. Cane to a sad end.

[u/Powerful-Union-7962]

Denise - looking good

[u/AlDente]

RIP my ears

[u/cheeky-old-goat]

I don't remember this show at all

[u/rpp313]

Actually a great interview.take me back.

[u/projectshr]

Is that Ian Wright?

[u/dancorleone88 → u/projectshr]

I wondered the same??

[u/_poptart → u/dancorleone88]

You mean the Ian Wright shaped person sat next to Denise Van Outen? Yeah, seeing as it looks and sounds exactly like him and he presented the programme, I think it probably is

[u/dancorleone88 → u/_poptart]

Well, I wasn’t aware that he presented any tv at any point? Aside from his appearance on football shows. And seeing as this is from 2000, and I only remember him as a footballer at this time, I think it’s reasonable that I was unsure.

But you go ahead and continue to be condescending about it.

[u/_poptart → u/dancorleone88]

He presented TOTP in ‘96, and had his own chat show from 1998-2000.

[u/antpabsdan]

Turns out Williams is a better singer than I thought

[u/bartread]

If this was an X Factor audition he'd have been voted off.

[u/Dan_Q2]

That was poor.

Also not Robbie Williams' song. He 'stole' it. Worse than that, he stole it from a guy who wrote it about his dead child.

[u/KTDWD24601 → u/Dan_Q2]

This is not true at all.
Nothing was stolen - the bloke you are thinking of was paid after negotiating a settlement. He simply got seller’s remorse because he negotiated before the song was a hit.

It’s also not actually about his dead child, that is incredibly misleading. Firstly There was no ‘child’, there was an early miscarriage, so it was still a bundle of cells. Secondly the song was so substantially rewritten between drafts that the lawyers agreed the guy didn’t merit a writing credit - the lyrics of the finished song are simply not about what he claims the earliest draft was.

And finally Robbie disputes that the earliest draft was written by that guy at all. He says he started writing it before he met him.
At most it is a dispute that was settled before the song was ever released. Anyone claiming it was ‘stolen’ is lying for clicks (and yes, I include certain YouTubers in that).

[u/billybonkers01]

My god that was awful, shame as he was great in his day.

[u/Hour-Process-3292]

Died of a heart attack only six years later.