Robbie Williams Gets Back To Work (And So Does Your Editor-At-Large)

Perhaps taking note of the economy crapping itself worldwide, one-time international pop star Robbie Williams has called off his feud with his record label, EMI. (Your prodigal one-time blog editor has likewise decided to get off the couch and back into the computer chair for the day.) Robbie had spent the last nine months beefing with EMI overlord Guy Hands for what Robbie decried as unfair treatment; Williams’ saucy manager, Tim Clark, infamously (and perhaps inadvisedly) slapped Hands by labeling him a “plantation owner.” (I’m not sure what I’ve spent the last six months doing, but I suspect gin was involved.) A new Williams album, with backlogged tunes surely set to stand alongside the singer’s lightly funky old hitz like “Millennium” and “Rock DJ,” is due next year. Sadly, his manager says Robbie’s jones for all things extraterrestrial was “exaggerated.” (Aw.) [NME]