“Rock DJ” by Robbie Williams

"Rock DJ" was the lead single from Robbie Williams's third album, Sing When You're Winning, going out on 31 July 2000, and it's a shameless, strutting disco romp stitched together from other people's records: a slice of Barry White's "It's Ecstasy When You Lay Down Next to Me", a sample of A Tribe Called Quest's "Can I Kick It?" and a line lifted from Slick Rick and Doug E. Fresh's "La Di Da Di". Guy Chambers and Steve Power produced it, with Chambers on keyboards and a brass section blaring. Williams later joked in his 2023 Netflix series that he set out to write "Karma Police" and came up with "Karma Chameleon".

It went to number one in the UK, Ireland and New Zealand among others, finished as the fourth-best-selling single of the year in Britain, and won British Single of the Year at the 2001 Brits. The video, in which Williams strips right down to the bone to impress a female DJ, took British Video too.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.