Ego a Go Go by Robbie Williams

Overview

Key: E♭ major · Chords used: 8 · Sections: 15

Where these chords come from: an expert transcription of the original recording made for the Robbie Williams chord annotations (Di Giorgi et al., Politecnico di Milano, 2013). This page shows that transcription as-is: the analysis below is generated directly from it by code, not written by AI. Consecutive repeats of a chord are shown once, and the piano voicings are our playable arrangement of each chord symbol, not a note-for-note transcription.

Section by section

Part 1 (0:07)

• E♭ – A♭ (×4)
  I – IV

Part 2 (0:21)

Same chords as Part 1 (0:07).

Part 3 (0:35)

Same chords as Part 1 (0:07).

Part 4 (0:49)

Same chords as Part 1 (0:07).

Part 5 (1:03)

• C♭ – D♭ – G♭ – B♭ – C♭ – D♭ – E♭ – A♭
  bVI – bVII – bIII – V – bVI – bVII – I – IV

Part 6 (1:16)

Same chords as Part 1 (0:07).

Part 7 (1:30)

Same chords as Part 1 (0:07).

Part 8 (1:44)

Same chords as Part 1 (0:07).

Part 9 (1:58)

• E♭ – A♭ – C♭ – D♭ – G♭ – B♭ – C♭ – D♭
  I – IV – bVI – bVII – bIII – V – bVI – bVII

Part 10 (2:12)

• E♭ – C♭ – D♭ – G♭ – B♭ – C♭ – D♭
  I – bVI – bVII – bIII – V – bVI – bVII

Part 11 (2:26)

Same chords as Part 1 (0:07).

Part 12 (2:40)

• E♭ – B♭m – C♭ – D♭ (×2)
  I – v – bVI – bVII

Part 13 (2:54)

Same chords as Part 12 (2:40).

Part 14 (3:08)

• E♭ – B♭m – C♭ – D♭ (×2)
  I – v – bVI – bVII
• A♭
  IV

Part 15 (3:22)

• E♭ – E♭m7
  I – i7

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• C♭ (bVI) is borrowed from the parallel key, E♭ minor.
• D♭ (bVII) is borrowed from the parallel key, E♭ minor.
• G♭ (bIII) is borrowed from the parallel key, E♭ minor.
• B♭m (v) is borrowed from the parallel key, E♭ minor.
• E♭m7 (i7) is borrowed from the parallel key, E♭ minor.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords: the Robbie Williams chord annotations (Di Giorgi et al., Politecnico di Milano, 2013). Chord annotation of the original recording (Life Thru a Lens, 1997), time-stamped by researchers; CC BY 4.0 via ChoCo.
• Section names: this annotation doesn't name verses or choruses, so they aren't guessed. Instead, code used the chord timings to find the bars and cut the song into 8-bar parts. Each part is labelled with the time it starts in the annotated recording (Life Thru a Lens, 1997), and a part with exactly the same chords as an earlier one says so.
• Not verified: only one expert transcription of this song is available so far.
• Rhythm and chord durations aren't shown; each step is one chord change.