Robbie Williams Wants To Cover 'It's Raining Men' With Radiohead

Robbie Williams wants to cover the 1983 Weather Girls anthem, It’s Raining Men, and he wants Radiohead to provide the instrumentals.

According to the singer himself, speaking in The Sun’s Bizarre category, he won’t give up on undertaking the task of covering an iconic single. If he continues to not hear back from Radiohead about his ambitious project, he’ll contact someone else in the influential alternative rock scene: Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor.

“I want to do a cover of ‘It’s Raining Men’, but I want Radiohead to do a backing track for me,” Williams shared with The Sun. “But they have not got back to me. I keep asking but nothing back. I dunno. I might ask Trent Reznor.”

Can you imagine a Robbie Williams meets Radiohead collaboration?

Williams’ appearance in the media follows his briefly stopping his set at Pinkpop Festival in June after experiencing Long Covid symptoms.

After covering the Wilson Pickett tune, Land Of 1000 Dances – the third song in his set – the Angels singer appeared out of breath and stopped his band as they began playing the intro to his 2002 track, Monsoon.

“No, stop, stop,” he said. “I’m fucked. I’m fucked. It’s long Covid; I’ve got long Covid."

Addressing the audience, he added, "It’s not my fucking age, you fuckers.”

From there, he performed the remainder of his set – another 15 songs – without incident and travelled to the Isle Of Wight for the titular festival from the Netherlands the next day.

Earlier this year, Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood revealed that he had stepped into the olive oil business, launching his very own brand, Greenwood Oil.

When not making music, Greenwood has been living on a farm in the Le Marche region of Italy for eight years. In that time, he’s harvested and pressed olives with friends and family to create this artisan olive oil. 

Greenwood tweeted, “I’m really proud of the final product, for all that this is what rockstarsofacertainage* (It’s Sting we’re all thinking of) seem to drift into doing.”

He continued, “It’s an addictive thing through, harvesting and pressing this glorious fruit, and spending more and more time with Italian friends in this beautiful country.”

In 2021, Radiohead celebrated the 20th and 21st anniversaries of their critically acclaimed albums, Kid A and Amnesiac.