Robbie Williams winds up Vladimir Putin with new single?

Robbie Williams had to censor his comeback single ‘Party Like A Russian’ because it makes fun of the Eastern European nation’s controversial president Vladimir Putin.

The 42-year-old pop star pokes fun at the 63-year-old politician with the lyric: “It takes a certain kind of man with a certain reputation to alleviate the cash from a whole entire nation, take my loose change and build my own space station.”

But Robbie admitted that was the light version of the track that refers to Vladimir’s people as being avid “party animals” and he didn’t want to get on the wrong side of 147 million Russians.

He told The Sun newspaper: “I had my chisel and whittle at the lyrics.

“There’s 147 million people in Russia and I don’t want to upset them in any way and I don’t know what kind of sense of humour they’ve got. I’m not making fun of anybody but I had to take a few things out just to make it more PC – and this is the PC version you’re getting.”

But was he worried about Putin coming after him? No, because he thinks his final version of the record is paying Russia a compliment.

He added: “I doubt that very much. I hope not. I think the record is saying party like a Russian. And we as Brits, or you as a New Zealander, think that we party really hard.

“I can assure you we’re nothing compared to the Russians who are ridiculously good partiers.”

Good save, Robbie.

The former Take That star also moaned that pop music has become too safe and he longs for somebody to shake up the scene and be “dysfunctional” like Liam Gallagher did in his Oasis heyday.

“There doesn’t seem to be a lot of personality out there. There should be a Liam Gallagher making music and being dangerous. Everyone seems to be politicking and sticking to scripts. We seem to be getting Olympic-scale pop stars. They’re great too and a sight to behold, but I like my pop with dysfunction.”

‘Party Like A Russian’ can be heard on Robbie’s 11th studio LP ‘Heavy Entertainment Show’ out on November 4.