The Times reported this morning that the singer is on strike in protest at Terra Firma's treatment of EMI, which it bought last year, quoting Williams' manager Tim Clark.

However, Clark denies that the singer is on strike. "On strike? I didn't actually use those terms," he tells Music Week. "What we actually said was it would be unrealistic to expect an artist - any artist to deliver an album while we have no idea where EMI are going," ...