Robbie to get lifetime Brit Award

Robbie Williams has won best British male four times

Pop star Robbie Williams will receive the outstanding contribution to music prize at next year's Brit Awards.

The 35-year-old has already won 11 Brits as a solo artist - more than any other singer.

Ged Doherty of the Brits committee praised Williams, saying he was "one of the outstanding artists and performers of his generation".

Williams won his first Brit award as a member of Take That, when Could It Be Magic was named best single in 1993.

'Absolute thrill'

The group went on to scoop three more trophies before Williams quit in 1995.

The star then carved out a successful solo career with hit singles such as Angels, She's The One and Rock DJ.

Williams has won the best British male prize four times.

Mr Doherty said it will be "an absolute thrill" to have Williams at the 30th anniversary of the Brit award show.

I know listening to new stuff can be a bit of a bore, but everyone was lovely and received it with kind hearts and consideration, so thank you very muchRobbie Williams on his first live gig in three years

The star has recently made a comeback, appearing on the X Factor last weekend, and playing his first UK concert for three years as part of the BBC Electric Proms on Wednesday.

His exuberant X Factor performance was heavily criticised in the press, but writing on his blog after the Proms show, Williams said: "I wasn't aware until last night that the X Factor performance was given such an horrendous kicking."

He went on to praise the "lovely audience" at Wednesday night's concert.

"I know listening to new stuff can be a bit of a bore, but everyone was lovely and received it with kind hearts and consideration, so thank you very much," he wrote.

The gig broke records when it was beamed live to more than 250 cinemas in 23 countries across Europe, from Latvia to Luxembourg - but Williams claimed to know nothing about the achievement.

"I kind of heard it being mentioned but I think selective hearing must have been in action at the time," he said.

Previous recipients of the outstanding achievement award include The Pet Shop Boys, Paul McCartney, Oasis and The Who.

Sight unseen

A survey suggests 58% of men and 38% of women lie about having seen classic films. So how might you go about bluffing that you have?

Here are six of the top 10 most fibbed about films with all of the necessary bluffage provided for you to able to get away with not having seen any of them.

Warning: Plot details are revealed below.

THE GODFATHERThe Godfather is widely thought to have been one of the best films ever

In a line: Super-slick gangster flick.

Plot summary: Ageing crime boss finds himself caught up in a cycle of violence that takes its toll on his whole family. People are killed, then the people who killed them are killed. Eventually a new boss is found from an unlikely source.

Buzzword bingo: Consigliere, button men.

Key lines: "Make him an offer he couldn't refuse."

"Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes."

Key scene: A movie studio boss refuses to put Don Corleone's godson in a lead role. He wakes up with his prized horse's severed head in his bed. He changes his mind.

TAXI DRIVER

In a line: Vietnam-veteran cabbie goes a bit wonky.

Plot summary: Insomniac Travis Bickle spends his nights driving taxis in New York and not exactly feeling at peace with the world. A date gone wrong starts to upset him, and an encounter with an underage prostitute and her pimp send him right over the edge. He gets an alarming haircut and turns into the have-a-go hero to end all have-a-go heroes.

Buzzword bingo: Alienation, isolation.

Key lines: "You talkin' to me?"

"Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets."

Key scene: Bickle, played by Robert de Niro, takes Betsy to see a "sex education" film on their first date. She is not pleased.

GONE WITH THE WINDGone With the Wind is four hours long so don't be embarrassed

In a line: Passionate love story set in America's "Deep South" through the Civil War and beyond.

Plot summary: The lavish film follows the fortunes of beautiful, ambitious and unscrupulous Southern belle Scarlett as she fights for her and her family's survival. The greatest battles are not between the North and the South, but between Scarlett and anyone who stands between her and what she wants.

Buzzword bingo: Tara, mamie and fiddle-de-dee.

Key line: "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn."

Key scene: Lying weak from hunger in the ruins of rural Georgia, Scarlett claws at the scorched earth and declares: "As God is my witness, I will never be hungry again." At that moment she decides that not only is she going to survive, but she is going to prosper.

IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFEGeorge Bailey tries to prevent a bank run

In a line: Heartwarming reminder that good guys can prosper.

Plot summary: George Bailey has had some bad luck and on Christmas Eve is thinking of killing himself. An angel is sent to intervene and show what a vital role he has played in people's lives. Topically, the baddie is a banker, and the whole story works as a paean to community over personal ambition.

Buzzword bingo: Evil bankers, getting your wings.

Key lines: "You're worth more dead than alive."

"Harry wasn't there to save them, because you weren't there to save Harry."

Key scene: There is a run on the savings and loan and George stands behind the counter trying to persuade the crowd that they can't take their money out because it is invested in each other's houses.

THE GREAT ESCAPEThe Great Escape is based on reality with enhanced US involvement

In a line: Ingenious escape from German PoW camp, based on a true story.

Plot summary: PoW escape mastermind Big X arrives in the high security Stalag Luft III and conceives a plan for the biggest breakout of Allied airmen yet. They dig three tunnels, Tom, Dick and Harry, and have to devise cunning tricks to keep their activities from the prying eyes of the camp guards.

Buzzword bingo: Ferrets, penguins.

Key line: "Oh my God, they found Tom."

Key scene: Virgil Hilts tries to jump over barbed wire at the border on a stolen motorbike. Nothing like it ever happened in reality. But Steve McQueen really liked motorbikes.

CITIZEN KANECharles Foster Kane was rather full of himself

In a line: Newspaper mogul attempts to bestride the world but ends up alone.

Plot summary: With close parallels with the life of real newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, the movie follows a journalist's quest to uncover the meaning of Charles Foster Kane's final words, while also telling the story of his life.

Buzzword bingo: Rosebud, auteur, deep focus, pioneering.

Key line: "You provide the prose poems. I'll provide the war."

Key scene: Kane dies and the snow globe he is holding rolls out of his hand.

What other classic films do people pretend they've seen? Send us your guides on how to bluff using the form below. A selection will be printed next week.

Tim O'Brien - Restless Spirit Wandering

Restless spirit, wandering, come on home again
Tell me about your days of old, wander back again
You won't admit your life is taken, to your death not yet awakened
Restless spirit wandering, come on home again

Oglethorpe was around this place some hundred fifty years
Since a Union bullet hit its mark, and his teenaged heart it pierced
Years ago a young girl lived here, she became his friend
But when their family moved away their friendship had to end

When we bought this house the neighbors came and talked about him
Though we've not heard or seen a thing, I hope he comes again
I'd like to ask him lots of things, and hear the way he talks
Describing local battle scenes on some slow morning walk

Restless spirit, wandering, come on home again
Tell me about your days of old, wander back again
Don't admit your life is taken, to your death not yet awaken
Restless spirit wandering, come on home again

The room I write used to be a two car garage
A nineteen fifties chrome and fin and white wall tired montage
Years later it became a church, and they moved an organ in
And these walls would shake with holy songs and sermons against sin

I like to think this place was made for the kind of work I do
I'll try to be ready when the spirit comes back through
I'll write it down and sort it out and make it fairly rhyme
And marry it to melody of the highest flying kind

I want to try be to a friend to souls that cannot rest
I would not blame their anger, don't claim to know what's best
But souls are all connected like the branches on a tree
And things they see beyond the grave might help out you and me

Restless spirit, wandering, come on home again
Tell me about your days of old, wander back again
Tell me as you come and go, things that people need to know
Restless Spirit, wandering, come on home again
Don't admit your life is taken, to your death not yet awaken
Restless spirit wandering, come on home again

Fattburger - Come And Get It

Fattburger - Feel Like Making Love

Great burger, and nice version!!Thx for it!

Various Artists - On The Rocks (Ticon)

Pope Of Gegga - Velocity Function

isnt he and the rest of the gegga crew from malm?, sweden? maybe im mistaking them..