In 2006 Williams entered the Guinness Book of World Records for selling 1.6 million tickets of his Close Encounters Tour in a single day. His parents, Janet (née Farrell) and Peter Williams, ran a pub called the Red Lion in the town of Burslem, before his father became the licensee at the Port Vale F.C. Social Club – this led to Williams’ lifelong affinity for the team. His maternal grandfather was Irish, from Kilkenny. Williams attended Mill Hill Primary School in Stoke-on-Trent then St Margaret Ward Roman Catholic School in Tunstall, and also attended dance school UKDDF in Tunstall. During the heights of the band’s popularity, Williams was known as the extrovert and practical joker of the band. Although the majority of the band’s material was written and performed by Gary Barlow, Williams did perform lead vocals on their first Top Ten hit “Could It Be Magic”, “I Found Heaven”, and “Everything Changes”. As well as Williams’s friction with the management of the band, Jason Orange had problems with his increasingly belligerent behaviour, his lack of interest in performing, and his frequent habit of missing the band’s rehearsals.
Robbie Williams Wanted a Son Robbie Williams was “gutted” to learn he was to be a father to a little girl, but having experienced fatherhood to Theodora ‘Teddy’ Rose, he only wants daughters in the future. [link]