I've Been Expecting You

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I've Been Expecting You
Studio album by Robbie Williams
Released	October 26, 1998
Recorded	1998
Genre	Pop
Length	75:14
Label	Chrysalis Records
Producer(s)	Guy Chambers, Steve Power
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Robbie Williams chronology
Life Thru a Lens (1997)	I've Been Expecting You (1998)	The Ego Has Landed (1999)

I've Been Expecting You is second solo album of Robbie Williams. The most successful singles from it were "Millennium" and "She's the One". The album was one of the best selling albums in the UK from 1998–1999 and to date has sold over 2.7 million in the UK alone making it Williams best selling UK album. It sold a further 4 million copies in Europe confirmed by the IFPI.

I've Been Expecting You was ranked 91st in a 2005 survey held by British television's Channel 4 to determine the 100 greatest albums of all time.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Strong" – 4:39
2. "No Regrets" – 5:10
3. "Millennium" (John Barry/Leslie Bricusse/Guy Chambers/Robbie Williams) – 4:05
4. "Phoenix From the Flames" – 4:02
5. "Win Some Lose Some" – 4:18
6. "Grace" – 3:14
7. "Jesus In A Camper Van" – 3:39 (replaced by "It's Only Us" – 2:50)
8. "Heaven From Here" – 3:05
9. "Karma Killer" – 4:26
10. "She's the One" (Karl Wallinger) – 4:18
11. "Man Machine" – 3:34
12. "These Dreams" – 5:08

Contains the hidden tracks "Stand Your Ground" and "Stalker's Day Off" All compositions by Guy Chambers and Robbie Williams, except as indicated.

[edit] Lawsuit

In 1998, Robbie Williams was sued by Ludlow Publishing over the song "Jesus in a Camper Van" because it lifted lyrics from the Loudon Wainwright III song "I am the Way" (from his album Attempted Mustache). The lyric to "I am the Way" is as follows:

Every son of God has a little hard luck sometime, especially when he goes around saying he's the way.

The lyric to "Jesus in a Camper Van" are:

Even the son of God gets it hard sometimes, especially when he goes around saying, "I am the way."

Robbie Williams claimed that he heard a young man say the line while in rehab and only found that it was a line from Wainwright's song after he had already recorded "Jesus in a Camper Van". Williams' agents called Wainwright to notify him about this, but Wainwright had little say in the matter; "I am the Way" was a parody of the Woody Guthrie song "New York Town", Ludlow Publishing owned the line's copyright.

In 2002, Ludlow Publishing won the law suit, receiving 25% of the income that "Jesus in a Camper Van" garnered.