Robbie Williams must be staring (alone) into his golden mirror tonight after the
receipts for his last tour were announced, revealing he has enough to buy a small country and a hell of a lot of new friends. Not real ones, obviously, but people who say all the right things and won't fall out with you, because they're scared of losing their income.
So, after nine months and 44 shows in 14 countries he played to 2.6 million people, who came away feeling grubby and confused, having witnessed the slowest nervous breakdown in history and paying for the benefit. For Robbie is unravelling a little bit more day after day, and like a tramp's teeth there may not be much left of him this time next year.
Apart from the $66,474,301.83 he has earned over the last nine months (that's over £32,000,000, currency fans). Hats off to his accountants by the way, for that last 83 cents (if Sting's accountant had been this honest we might have been spared the sight of him dragging his scrawny white dignity-less arse across the globe).
So well done, Robbie. You're the best, 'Rudebox' was great and you're the modern Midas. All that money to ply with and no one to hug.