Robbie Williams says he wants to make “new Rat Pack album”

nme.com:

Robbie Williams has said he wants to make a “new Rat Pack album”.The pop star released his big band swing covers collection, ‘Swing When You’re Winning’, in 2001 and followed it up with 2013’s ‘Swings Both Ways’.

Both albums went to Number One in the UK.During a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Williams revealed that he was keen to revisit this style of music on a forthcoming record.“I would like to write a new Rat Pack album,” he told the publication. “I think I might do it.

And whether they join in or not, it’s up to their estates, but we’ll see.”The comments came after the singer was asked which artist he would collaborate with if he could, “dead or alive”.Williams continued: “Most of the time we take artists for granted because they’re just there and they’re in our lives.

It wasn’t until the Olympics when Celine [Dion] came [on] when I was reminded, ‘Oh my Lord, this is a very special person’.The Rat Pack was an informal group of vocalists in the 1950s and ’60s, including the likes of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr.