Are ‘my shame’ music docs such as ‘Robbie Williams’ the final act of celebrity narcissism?
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Are ‘my shame’ music docs such as ‘Robbie Williams’ the final act of celebrity narcissism?

The Independent  

Sign up to Roisin O’Connor’s free weekly newsletter Now Hear This for the inside track on all things music Get our Now Hear This email for free Get our Now Hear This email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Both Netflix series and film have the advantage of heaps of footage gathered at the time these personal tempests were raging – 30,000 hours of it in Robbie Williams’s case. open image in gallery Boy in the band: Peter Doherty as seen in the documentary ‘Stranger in My Own Skin' Back in 2011, Paul Kelly’s wonderful Lawrence of Belgravia tracked the presiding genius of Eighties indie greats Felt, Lawrence Hayward – whose own heroin addiction left him homeless – as he continued to chase his fading dreams of the sort of stardom that fell into Doherty’s lap. It’s not an idle comparison to think of how The Kinks burst onto the music scene in 1964 with the garage band energy of “You Really Got Me”, then nearly imploded under the pressures of too-much-too-young excess and inter-band tensions but held it together to continue releasing classic songs into the early Seventies. Enjoy unlimited access to 100 million ad-free songs and podcasts with Amazon Music Sign up now for a 4 month free trial Sign up Enjoy unlimited access to 100 million ad-free songs and podcasts with Amazon Music Sign up now for a 4 month free trial Sign up open image in gallery Take that: Robbie Williams is at the centre of a new self-titled Netflix docuseries Meanwhile, one revealing sequence in Robbie Williams shows how mental health difficulties used to be brushed under the carpet.

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