Robbie Williams in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire is a British pop singer. Originally a member of boy band Take That, he split from the group in the late 1990s and launched a solo career. This following a highly publicized battle with drugs and alchohol during which he put on nearly 40 pounds and was often seen in public poorly dressed, dirty and unshaven.

His solo career took off in Europe after his #1 single Kids, a duet with mega-star Kylie Minogue. He continued with a string of hits in Europe and became a major celebrity in the U.K., though much like Minogue it took him a great deal of time to break in the United States.

He finally did so in 2000 with his hit song Rock D.J. The video featured Williams in a roller-disco as he stripped nude and then proceeded to strip off his own flesh, muscle tissue and organs until he was a dancing skeleton. (A point of interest in social differences between Europe and the U.S.: it's said that frontal nudity was edited out in the U.S. while the gore was left in, whereas the opposite was true for the U.K.) Williams has built quite a reputation for appearing nude (or nearly nude) in photographs, videos and live performances.