Robbie Williams was once asked to fill Freddie Mercury’s shoes as the Queen frontman. Williams spoke about teaming up with the band for a 2001 re-recording of “We Are The Champions” during an interview with SiriusXM, when he confirmed he was asked to take on the role by Brian May and Roger Taylor.
He said: “Even though I’m very confident here on the microphone, I have very low self-esteem. “And I just thought I’d save them the audacity of me even trying to step on a stage and be the same echelon as Freddie Mercury.
He, to me, is angelic. He’s godlike. It was just too scary. “I was doing stadiums myself at the time. I didn’t want to have to split it three ways, but that’s another story.” Paul Rodgers filled in for Mercury between 2004 and
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