Swing When You're Winning. (Music Review: Swing out, Sister: Robbie Williams's Tribute to Sinatra-Era Music Shows the Sexually Ambiguous Brit Singer to Have the Nerve If Not the Voice)
Flick, Larry, The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
Swing When You're Winning * Robbie Williams * Chrysalis/EMI U.K. (import only)
There's a moment during a spirited rendition of the Al Jolson evergreen "Me and My Shadow" when Robbie Williams lets out a wild guffaw after guest vocalist Jonathan Wilkes teases him with the promise "I won't tell anybody you're gay." As a rush of horns carries the song to a fittingly festive conclusion, the hearts of the British pop star's ever-ardent contingent of gay male disciples can be heard fluttering madly.
Despite Williams's assertions of heterosexuality, queer listeners have been scouring his recordings and the gossip rags for glimmers of proof of the opposite. The tiny morsel …
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Article title: Swing When You're Winning. (Music Review: Swing out, Sister: Robbie Williams's Tribute to Sinatra-Era Music Shows the Sexually Ambiguous Brit Singer to Have the Nerve If Not the Voice).
Contributors: Flick, Larry - Author.
Magazine title: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine).
Publication date: February 19, 2002.
Page number: 58.
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