It was nothing short of spectacular. Saucy dancers 
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gyrated, explosions boomed and Robbie’s actor 
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pal, Max Beesley, turned up as part of the band, 
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whacking the drums and wearing a skirt.
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Knebworth became almost Vegas-like in its glitz 
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and excess, about as far as you could get from 
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what Robbie once described as his “pitiful year” 
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after leaving Take That. But what really stole the 
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show was Williams’s genuine surprise and teary 
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awe at the crowd’s ecstatic response to his songs: 
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the moment he realised all these people — 
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the couples, teenage kids, boys and girls — knew 
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every single word and had turned up just for him.