Millennium (song)

"Millennium"
"Millennium"
Single by Robbie Williams
from the album I've Been Expecting You
B-side	"Love Cheat" (demo); "Rome Munich Rome" (demo); "Lazy Days"; "Angels" (live);
Released	7 September 1998
Genre	Pop
Length	4:07 (album version); 3:46 (radio edit);
Label	Chrysalis
Songwriter(s)	Robbie Williams; Guy Chambers; Leslie Bricusse; John Barry;
Producer(s)	Guy Chambers; Steve Power;
Robbie Williams singles chronology
Music video
	"Millennium" on YouTube

"Millennium" is a song by English singer Robbie Williams from his second studio album, I've Been Expecting You (1998). On 7 September 1998, it was released as the first track from the album and became Williams' first single to top the UK Singles Chart. The song also received extensive airplay in the United States and Canada, where it was the lead single from Williams' 1999 compilation album, The Ego Has Landed.

The song borrows heavily from the musical arrangement of John Barry's "You Only Live Twice", the title track of the 1967 James Bond film, said to be one of Williams' favourite James Bond movies.^[2] However, it is a re-recording in a slightly different key instead of a direct sample for reasons of cost.^[3]

^ Pearlman, Nina; Eliscu, Jenny (2004). "Robbie Williams". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Simon & Schuster. p. 876. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
^ "Robbie Williams's Millennium sample of John Barry feat. Nancy Sinatra's You Only Live Twice". WhoSampled. Retrieved 1 April 2014.
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[RS_2004-1] Pearlman, Nina; Eliscu, Jenny (2004). "Robbie Williams". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Simon & Schuster. p. 876. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.

[2] "Robbie Williams's Millennium sample of John Barry feat. Nancy Sinatra's You Only Live Twice". WhoSampled. Retrieved 1 April 2014.

[sos-3] Cite error: The named reference sos was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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