Robbie entertains screaming fans

Robbie Williams has thrilled hordes of screaming fans in Edinburgh with a steamy stage show.

The flamboyant ex-Take That star took to the stage before a packed Murrayfield Stadium and told 55,000 people: “Let me entertain you.”

Dressed in black with a white tie, Williams gave an energetic performance with the crowd enthusiastically joining in.

Not all lasted the pace, however – a number of fans collapsed and had to be taken to the front of the stage.

One fan, obviously feeling the heat, made an impromptu appearance when footage of her flashed up on three giant screens on the stage.

The half-naked woman seemed oblivious to the thousands who cheered her.

Williams, sporting a giant grin, lapped up the rapturous applause and embraced the crowd with a vigorous rendition of his current hit single, Come Undone.

Later, he shared the giant video screen with a chimpanzee for the song Me and my Monkey.

The concert started with a dramatic entrance by the star.

Mimicking the cover of his Escapology album, he was lowered onto the stage hanging upside down by a wire.

As Williams neared the ground he grabbed hold of one of his female dancers and, as the pair lay flat on the stage, he pretended to have sex with her.

The entertainer continued to thrill Murrayfield with a little help from his friend, British actor and musician Max Beesley, on piano. Williams admitted that he and Beesley had fled to Las Vegas over Christmas when both their love-lives hit the skids.

The duo performed the classic Mr Bojangles and hit song, She’s the One.

A smaller platform led Williams further into the crowd.

At this point he picked up one young girl from the crowd below and danced with her in his arms before wrapping himself in a Saltire and shouting, “Scotland I love you”.

Later, as the pace got more frenetic, he took his trousers off during a provocative performance of Kids, before he again took the stage wearing a camouflage kilt.

He then performed fans’ favourites, Feel, Millennium and Angels, as darkness crept over the stadium.

Kathleen Dowds, from Hamilton, was in tears for most of the performance.

“This has just been fantastic,” the 40-year-old housewife said. “I’ve never seen anything like it in my life.

“This has been a dream come true.”

Another fan Angela Smith, a 21-year-old secretary from Leith in Edinburgh said: “It was spectacular to watch a man being lowered to the stage by his ankles, especially when that man was Robbie.

“I’ve seen him before, but he was giving it everything up there and he kept saying that he loved Scotland.