4x Digital Media (25th Anniversary)

Life Thru a Lens

Album by Robbie Williams

Released 10 September 1997

Tracklist

Digital Media 1
1
Lazy Days
3:54
3.6 ★
2
Life Thru a Lens
3:07
3.0 ★
3
Ego Agogo
3:32
3.0 ★
4
Angels
4:24
3.6 ★
5
South of the Border
3:53
3.2 ★
6
Old Before I Die
3:53
3.5 ★
7
One of God’s Better People
3:33
8
Let Me Entertain You
4:21
4.0 ★
9
Killing Me
3:56
2.0 ★
10
Clean
3:53
2.0 ★
11
Baby Girl Window
3:18
12
Hello Sir
1:27
Digital Media 2
1
Freedom (full length version)
5:52
2
Better Days
3:30
3
Average B Side
2:58
4
Making Plans for Nigel
4:04
5
Kooks
2:33
6
Teenage Millionaire
3:10
7
Falling in Bed (Again)
3:29
8
She Makes Me High
3:23
9
Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye
3:03
10
Lazy Days (original version)
4:30
11
Cheap Love Song
4:10
12
Walk This Sleigh
2:58
13
Karaoke Overkill
3:29
14
Get the Joke
3:03
15
Angels (acoustic)
4:27
16
Angeles (Spanish version)
4:28
17
Let Me Entertain You (full length version)
5:18
18
Medley From “The Full Monty” (live From London Arena, U.K./ 1998)
Robbie Williams & Tom Jones
5:28
19
I Wouldn’t Normally Do This Kind of Thing
3:08
20
I Am The (Res) Erection
3:49
Digital Media 3
1
Freedom (ambient mix)
5:34
2
Freedom (new sound dub)
11:14
3
Hey Little Girl (Axis Studios demo, October / November 1996)
4:04
4
Clean (Axis Studios demo, October / November 1996)
4:12
5
Old Before I Die (Crescent Moon Studios demo, October 1996)
4:03
6
Lazy Days (Tower Studios demo, January 1997)
3:54
7
Angels (Tower Studios demo, January 1997)
4:19
8
Red Lights (Tower Studios demo, January 1997)
2:58
9
Average B Side (Westside Studios demo, February 1997)
3:00
10
Teenage Millionaire (rehearsal recording, spring 1997)
2:24
11
South of the Border (rehearsal recording, spring 1997)
4:03
12
Killing Me (rehearsal recording, spring 1997)
3:56
13
Life Thru a Lens (rehearsal recording, spring 1997)
3:15
14
South of the Border (Mother’s Milkin’ It mix)
7:09
15
Let Me Entertain You (The Bizzarro mix)
5:54
Digital Media 4
1
Let Me Entertain You
7:24
2
I Wouldn’t Normally Do This Kind of Thing
3:14
3
Clean
3:47
4
South of the Border
4:06
5
Average ’b’ Side
3:21
6
Baby Girl Window
3:37
7
One of God’s Better People
3:13
8
There She Goes
2:56
9
Killing Me
4:06
10
Life Thru a Lens
4:07
11
Teenage Millionaire
3:51
12
Lazy Days
6:22
13
Ego a Go‐Go
4:41
14
Old Before I Die
4:51
15
Angels
4:51
16
Back for Good
4:09

Recent reviews

JHSuth1843 13 Oct 2025

★★★★

Potentially contains some of the best Britpop I’ve heard that didn’t come from Oasis, a fantastic debut from Williams, hoghly recommend

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Release credits

Alex Dickson
guitar [1-16]
Andre Barreau
background vocals [2.10, 1.1-4, 1.9-10], guitar [1.1, 1.4, 2.10]
Andy Caine
background vocals [2.10, 1.1]
Andy Duncan
percussion [1.1, 1.3-5, 1.7-10, 2.10, 2.17]
Antony Genn
mix [1], recording [3-4]
Arthur Baker
mix [2]
Beverley Skeete
background vocals [2.17, 1.8]
Carroll Thompson
background vocals [2.17, 1.8]
Charles Dye
engineer [5]
Chester Kamen
guitar [1.4, 1.8, 2.17]
Chris Sharrock
drums (drum set) [2.17, 4.1-16, 1.2-5, 1.8-10], snare drum [7]
Claudia Fontaine
background vocals [2.17, 1.8]
David Catlin‐Birch
background vocals [3], bass [3, 8], bass guitar [17]
Derek Watkins
solo [8], trumpet [2.17, 1.8]
Desmond Child
producer [5]
Fil Eisler
bass [1-2, 5-6, 9-10], bass guitar [2.10, 4.1-16], guitar [2.17, 1.2-3, 1.5-9], tom-tom [7]
Gary Nuttall
background vocals [2, 4-5, 7, 9-10], guitar [1.3-5, 4.1-16]
Gavyn Wright
concertmaster [2, 4, 9]
Geoff Dugmore
drums (drum set) [1.1, 1.6, 2.10], percussion [6]
Guy Chambers
arranger [2.15, 1.1-10], background vocals [3], guitar [1.1-3, 1.5-7, 1.9-10, 2.10], keyboard [4.1-16, 1.1-10, 2.10, 2.17], mix [19], producer [3.6-13, 3.15, 1.1-10, 2.2-9, 2.11-17, 2.19-20]
Jim Brumby
assistant [2.10, 2.17, 1.1-10], effects [2]
Kenny Jones
engineer [12-14]
Kerry Hopwood
programming [1.8, 2.17]
Marcelo Añez
assistant [5]
Mark Feltham
harmonica [5]
Mark Smith
bass [4-5], programming [4-5]
Martin Slattery
keyboard [10]
Matt Hay
assistant [1.1-10, 2.6-10, 2.12-15, 2.17], engineer [12]
Mother
additional [14], remixer [14]
Nick Hannan
engineer [20]
Nicole Patterson
background vocals [4]
Oscar O’Loughlin
guitar [9]
Oskar Paul
programming [12]
Pete Woodroffe
mix [12-15]
Richard Flack
engineer [16]
Robbie Williams
background vocals [2.10, 2.17, 1.1, 1.5-6, 1.8], lead vocals [1.4, 1.6, 1.11, 2.1-20, 3.3-13], mix [1], performer [18], spoken vocals [12], vocal [1-3, 5, 7-10]
Smiley
background vocals [7]
Stephen Hague
producer [1-2]
Steve Bush
programming [3]
Steve McEwan
background vocals [2.10, 1.1-2, 1.6, 1.9-10], guitar [1.1, 1.6, 2.10]
Steve Power
engineer [20], keyboard [1.1, 1.4-6, 2.10], mix [2.6, 2.10-11, 2.16-18, 2.20, 1.1-10, 4.1-16], producer [3.15, 2.6-9, 2.15-17, 2.20, 1.1-10], programming [1.3-5, 1.8, 2.17]
Steve Sidwell
concertmaster [3, 8], solo [8], trumpet [1.8, 2.17]
Stewart Middleton
engineer [3-4]
Stuart Epps
background vocals [19], engineer [19], mix [19]
The Bizzarro
remixer [15]
The London Session Orchestra
performing orchestra [2, 4, 9]
Tim Summerhayes
recording [1-16]
Tom Jones
additional [18], lead vocals [18]

Issues

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(Combined release view)
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Life Thru a Lens
CD
10 September 1997
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Life Thru a Lens
CD (made in Holland; printed in Italy)
29 September 1997
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Life Thru a Lens
CD (made in UK; printed in UK)
29 September 1997
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Life Thru a Lens
CD ("made in Italy" on CD)
1997
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Life Thru a Lens
CD
1997
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Life Thru a Lens
Digital Media
1 April 2004
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Life Thru a Lens
2x Digital Media
18 March 2011
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Life Thru a Lens
4x Digital Media (25th Anniversary)
2 December 2022