Millennium (song)

"Millennium"
Single by Robbie Williams
from the album I've Been Expecting You
B-side
Released7 September 1998 (1998-09-07)
GenrePop[1]
Length
  • 4:07 (album version)
  • 3:46 (radio edit)
LabelChrysalis
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Robbie Williams singles chronology
"Let Me Entertain You"
(1998)
"Millennium"
(1998)
"No Regrets"
(1998)
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]

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

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