ME AND MY MONKEY
ROBBIE WILLIAMS
SONGWRITERS: ROBERT PETER WILLIAMS &
GUY ANTONY CHAMBERS
COUNTRY: U. K.
ALBUM: ESCAPOLOGY
LABEL: EMI RECORDS
GENRE: POP ROCK
YEAR: 2002
Robert Peter Williams(born 13 February 1974)
is an English singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer. He found fame
as a member of the pop group Take That from
1990 to 1995, but has achieved greater commercial success with his solo career
since 1996. His
discography includes seven UK Nº 1 singles, and
all but one of his 12 studio albums have reached Nº 1 in the UK. Six of
his albums are among the top 100 biggest-selling albums in the UK,
with two of them in the top 60, and he gained a Guinness
World Record in 2006 for selling 1.6 million
tickets in a single day during his Close
Encounters Tour.
Williams has received a record 18 Brit Awards, winning
Best British Male Artist four times, Outstanding Contribution to Music twice, an Icon Award
for his lasting impact on British culture, eight German ECHO Awards, and
three MTV European
Music Awards. In 2004, he was inducted into
the UK Music Hall
of Fame after being voted the Greatest
Artist of the 1990s. According to the British
Phonographic Industry(BPI), he has been certified for
19.9 million albums and 8.4 million singles in the UK as a solo artist. Five of
his albums have also topped the Australian albums chart,
and has sold 75 million records worldwide. He additionally topped the 2000–2010 UK airplay chart. His
three concerts at
Knebworth in 2003 drew over 375,000 people,
the UK's biggest music event to that point. In 2014, he was awarded the freedom
of his home town of Stoke-on-Trent,
as well as having a tourist trail created and streets named in his honour.
After a 15-year hiatus from Take That,
Williams rejoined the group in 2010 to co-write and perform lead vocals on
their álbum Progress,
which became the second fastest-selling album in UK chart history and the
fastest-selling record of the century at the time. The subsequent stadium tour,
which featured seven songs from Williams' solo career, became the
biggest-selling concert in UK history when it sold 1.34 million tickets in less
than 24 hours. In 2011, Take That frontman Gary Barlow confirmed that Williams had left the band for a second time to focus
on his solo career, although he stated that the departure was amicable and that
Williams was welcome to rejoin Take That in the future. Williams has since
performed with Take That on three separate television appearances, and
collaborated with Barlow on a number of projects such as the West End musical The Band.
Escapology is the fifth studio album recorded
by British singer-songwriter Robbie Williams.
It was released on 18 November 2002 through EMI Records.
The album features a guest appearance by singer Rose Stone and was produced by Guy Chambers and Steve Power. Escapology was preceded by the
lead single "Feel", which was released on 2
December 2002. The track was an international hit, reaching the top of the
charts in Austria, Poland, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and top five
positions in countries such as Denmark, Ireland and the United Kingdom. Three
other singles from the album were released: "Come Undone",
"Something Beautiful" and "Sexed Up".
The
album debuted at number one in the United Kingdom with first-week sales of over
264,000, becoming Williams' fifth consecutive number one.
The album was supported by the 2003 Tour,
which started on 28 June 2003 in Edinburgh,
Scotland and ended on 14 December 2003 in Sydney,
Australia. During the tour Williams performed three consecutive shows at Knebworth,
England on 1–3 August 2003. The three shows attracted a total of 375,000 fans, becoming the
"biggest music event in British history".
There was me and my
monkey
And with his dungarees and rollerblades
Smoking filter tips
Reclining in the passenger seat of my supercharged jet black Chevrolet
He had the soft top down
He liked the wind in his face
He said "Son, you ever been to Vegas?"
I said "No" he said "That's where we're gonna go,
You need a change of pace"
And when we hit the strip with all the wedding chapels
And the neon signs he said
"I left my wallet in El Segundo"
And proceeded to take two grand of mine
We made tracks to the Mandalay Bay hotel
Asked the bell boy if he'd take me and my monkey as well
He looked in the passenger seat of my car
And with a smile he said
"If your monkey's got that kind of money sir,
Then we've got a monkey bed"
Me and my monkey
With a dream and a gun
Hoping my monkey
Don't point that gun at anyone
Me and my monkey
Like Butch and the Sundance Kid
Trying to understand
Why he did what he did
Why he did what he did
And at the elevator I
hit the 33rd floor
He had a room up top with a panoramic views
Like nothing you've ever seen before
He went to sleep in the bidet and when he awoke
He ran his little monkey fingers through the yellow pages
Called up escort services and ordered some okey doke
Forty minutes later there came a knock at the door
In walked this big, bad-ass baboon into my bedroom
With 3 monkey whores
"Hi, my name is Sunshine. These are my girls.
Lace my palm with silver baby oh yeah
And they'll rock your world"
So I watched pay per view and polished my shoes and my gun
Was diggin old Kurt Cobain singin' 'bout lithium
There came and knocked at the door and in walked Sunshine
"What's up?" - "You better get your ass in here boy
Your monkey is having too much of a good time"
Me and my monkey
Drove in search of the sun
Me and my monkey
Don't point that gun at anyone
Me and my monkey
Like Billy the Kid
Trying to understand
Why he did what he did
Why he did what he did
Got tickets to see
Sheena Easton
The monkey was high
Said it was a burning ambition to see her before he died
We left before encores
He couldn't sit still
Sheena was a blast baby
But my monkey was ill
We went to play black jack
Kept hittin' 23
Couldn't help but notice this Mexican just staring at me
Or was it my monkey?
I couldn't be sure
It's not like you've never seen a monkey in rollerblades
And dungarees before
Now don't test my patience cause we're not about to run
That's a bad-ass monkey boy and he's packing a gun
"My name is Rodriguez" he says with death in his eye
"I've been chasing you for a long time amigos
And now your monkey is gonna die"
Me and my monkey
Drove in search of the sun
Me and my monkey
We don't wanna kill no Mexican
But we got ten itchy fingers
One thing to declare
When the monkey is high
You do not stare
You do not stare
You do not stare
Looks like we got
ourselves a Mexican stand off here boy
And I ain't about to run
Put your gun down boy
How did I get mixed up with this fuckin' monkey anyhow.
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