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Robbie and his co-writer, Guy Chambers,
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married the classic string refrain to a strutting
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hip-hop beat and wrote some suitably mock-
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epic words. Yet it was MillenniumΓÇÖs video that
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elicited grins of approval over TV dinners across
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the land.
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Robbie was living out his fantasies: the cheeky
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kid from Stoke on Trent cast as James Bond,
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right down to the archly raised eyebrow.
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Amazingly, it worked and people loved it.
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Why? Because the engines on RobbieΓÇÖs rocket
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back pack are broken. Because he drives off at
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the end in a rickety three-wheeler. Because even
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RobbieΓÇÖs suaveness, checking out a pneumatic
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air hostess, is self-parodic.