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2000 single by Robbie Williams
the song

"Rock DJ" is a song by English singer and songwriter Robbie Williams, featured on his third studio album, Sing When You're Winning (2000). The song was released on 31 July 2000 as the lead single from the album. It samples Barry White's song "It's Ecstasy When You Lay Down Next to Me", "Can I Kick It?" by A Tribe Called Quest and has a quote from "La Di Da Di" by Slick Rick and Doug E. Fresh. "Rock DJ" reached number one in Costa Rica, Iceland, Ireland, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom whilst reaching the top 10 in Australia, Austria, Germany, Italy, Norway, Spain, and Switzerland. It was the fourth best selling song of 2000 in the UK. The music video features Williams trying to impress a female DJ by stripping naked and eventually resorting to removing his skin and muscles, ending up as a skeleton. The song won British Single of the Year, and the video won British Video of the Year at the 2001 Brit Awards.

The song became Robbie Williams' third number one solo single in the United Kingdom, going on to sell over 600,000 copies and being certified platinum by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI). The video has been shown numerous times on Fuse's Pants Off Dance Off, despite its gory content. Toward the end of the dancer's dancing/stripping to it when the video is shown in the background like any other, they only show Williams, briefly, ripping and throwing his skin, and dancing in muscle form before cutting to the hostess of the show. The video appears as an instance of the re use of the motif of "dancing with the dead" in a book about medieval images of death and dying in art and literature. A second video shows Williams in a studio while recording the song.

RegionDateFormat(s)Label(s)Ref(s). (Reference(s))Australia31 July 2000CDChrysalisUnited KingdomCD, cassetteUnited States22 August 2000Contemporary hit radioCapitol25 September 2000Hot adult contemporary, modern adult contemporary radio17 October 2000Rhythmic contemporary radio