Robbie Williams in Lisbon: the chilling video of nearly 20,000 people singing ‘Angels’ at Altice Arena

To culminate a night of songs that markith a career that started 33 years ago, and which featured moments that crossed good humor with emotion (the Portuguese Filipa says so), Robbie Williams wanted to be serious with the 20,000 people who sold out the Altice Arena, in Lisbon, in the last monday.

With the focus on himself and the audience in silence, he recalled the insecurity of his youth, the days when he felt “fat, ugly, dull” and the “demons” he faced. “The days that turned into months, the months that turned into years, the ten years that turned into twenty. Twenty years of depression.” The drugs he experimented with, “the cocaine, the ecstasy, the heroin – who was to say that Robbie ‘fu**ing’ Williams was into heroin? -, the alcohol”. 2006, the year he met his wife, actress Ayda Field, and finally began to like himself “through her eyes”.

In an atmosphere of enormous emotion, the way was opened for ‘Angels’, the greatest success of a journey, as the artist would say at the beginning of the concert, where he reached the “highest highs” and the “lowest lows”. Empathically, the audience reciprocated with tuned voices and cell phone lights on. Watch the video for ‘Angels’ and the final bows.