Live For Today Lyrics

Robbie Williams & Pulp revive English pop with Wireless and Take That

It came out a little bit Nick Griffin but you could tell what Robbie Williams meant when he thanked the adoring Wembley Stadium crowd and said: “I’ve never felt more proud to be English than at these nights. We are the English!”

The star, whose explosive entrance on stage 20 minutes into Take That’s set is one of the great moments in live music today, wanted the 80,000 fans to know that despite his sometimes errant ways, “I have always been your son”.

Watching Williams, followed by Jarvis Cocker’s return to front Pulp the following night, was a reminder that British pop at its best still throws up charismatic, witty, sometimes frustrating but always entertaining performers who have a self-deprecating awareness that their US superstar counterparts lack.

Robbie throws a Bruce Forsyth fist-to-nose pose during Let Me Entertain You which is lapped up by the knowing Saturday night crowd. He throws in a rap about superinjunctions to show he’s lost in the same celebrity Twitterverse as the rest of us.

His whole entry, after an opening of five Gary Barlow-penned Radio 2 friendly singalongs from the Robbie-free era, bursting through the giant video screen, is like the evil villain disrupting a pantomime. A couple of Take That, Robbie-hating purists even booed.

Robbie plays along with a little rehearsed dialogue about being “sacked” from the band and throws himself in to the choreographed dance steps of Everything Changes, replicating the 90s ToTP memories of thousands of female fans.

The Take That experience, with Mark singing “If you’re happy and you know it clap your hands”, could seem a little “end-of-the-pier children’s show” if there weren’t some solid gold pop tunes at the heart of it, with Barlow’s recent Progress material giving the group an appropriately mature edge.

Williams and Cocker, whose Hyde Park Pulp reunion at Wireless, was no less of a triumph, enjoyed polar opposite career trajectories whose paths have converged.

Williams joined his manufactured group as a 16 year-old and was immediately catapulted to teen  idol status. Cocker had to wait until his 30s before Pulp, created in his own image, finally ignited Britpop.

Both side-stepped the Blur/Oasis battle to create a defining song of the 90s – Common People and Angels. They enjoyed a run of hits with quirky pop songs featuring clever lyrics and wordplay, memorable melodies and often uniquely British reference points.

Kottonmouth Kings - Live Today (Revival Remix) Lyrics

Live for today now (yeah, yeah, yeah)

Forget about tomorrow (come on, everybody)

When you blaze your own trails, you really don't have to follow (yo, yo, yo)



When I woke up this morning I jumped out of bed, took a shower puts some pants on, my hat was

Red, I need a grab a jersey then brush my teeth, I need a shave my face throw some shoes on my

Feet, I was fresh dressed like a million bucks, saggin in my ten dicks with a tear on my nuts,

Now theres things to do and there's people to meet, sets some goals to achieve, Johnny Richter

Whatchu think?



Another day full of new opportunities, another sunrise, another chance for you to be, whatchu

Wanna be, cause you aint gotta be, a follower, your the prophet of your prophecy, it might

Sound like I started preachin, but I'm searchin out the fun, yo I'm always seekin, livin out my

Life like an endless weekend, and I just keep doing it again, and again, and again, and again...

Live life today, ("Lyrics of life")

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