On this day, 13 September 1998, Rock/Pop Superstar Robbie Williams played Cooper’s Field, Cardiff, a concert broadcast live on Radio One. The line-up also included Ash, Manic Street Preachers, Republica and Divine Comedy.
Robbie Williams was in the middle of his Ego Has Landed Tour the beginning of which was a gig in Treforest at The Basement on 15 May.
Williams and songwriting partner Guy Chambers had started writing the second album, I've Been Expecting You, in Jamaica in early 1998. The first single, "Millennium", accompanied with a music video featuring Williams parodying James Bond, complete with tuxedo and references to Bond films like Thunderball and From Russia with Love, became Williams' first solo number one single in the United Kingdom.[33] It also became a top twenty hit in many European countries, Latin America and Australia.[34]
I've Been Expecting You was released in late October 1998 and debuted at number one in the UK Albums Chart
