Don't worry. I won't be reviewing another episode of the most popular show in America, American Idol. Nope. Could care less who wins, although it will be David Archuleta, despite how he's managed to grate on the entire collective of adult America.

Nope, I'm not here to talk about him at all.

Sometimes on Idol -- and you have to admit that this is a redeeming quality of the show, if you don't like it -- they bring light on artists who would never ordinarily see the light of day on primetime American television.

Take Chris Cornell, for example. Great singer who not only had a great band back in the day but also composed some brilliant songs. Love it when Idol gives truly talented, already-established artists a career lift.

But when David Cook did his rock version of "Billie Jean," as arranged by Cornell, a couple of weeks ago, millions learned of the greatness of Chris Cornell. This is a good thing.

However, on Tuesday night, Simon Cowell said something in response to young David Archuleta's performance of a late-1990s song called "Angels" that warmed the cockles of my heart or, er, of my cockles. I don't really know the saying.

Alas, Cowell said that he didn't understand how that song never became a hit in America. "Angels" is one of my favorite songs of all time, and I don't mean Jessica Simpson's rendition, which was a minor, minor hit in the States a few years back.

I'm talking about the version from Robbie Williams.

Do you know who he is? He's the biggest selling solo artist in British history. He holds a Guinness record for the most tickets sold to a concert in an hour. He's a little like P.T. Barnum and a lot like a modern Frank Sinatra but with a major bad-boy edge.

And, he's possibly the most important, vital and interesting male pop artist of the past 15 years. If I would have, if I could have extended Simon's remarks, it would have been that it's a damned shame Williams has never been bigger in America -- and, frankly, it's our loss.

But what was really cool about Tuesday night is that Williams isn't the only wonderful artist whose music was featured. I'll feature a post about this ukelele-playing Hawaiian wonder later this week. Again, I could care less who wins at this point, but I love that Williams and the other guy who you might know of but probably not (breath) got lots of attention in front of 33 million people.

Well, Robbie's music did. It was the song "Angels," like I noted, but it wasn't my first introduction to the guy. While I don't have time to go back to his years in the group Take That, I first saw the guy singing a pop tune with a Bond vibe, "Millennium".

His follow-up to that single was the aforementioned "Angels."

If you didn't catch David Archuleta's version of the song, I'll preface the video with what I've said about the kid off-the-record for weeks. He might annoy you. He has weird quirks. He wears magic underwear. He licks his lips. He sounds like he's gasping for air, but he is by a mile the best vocalist on the show this season, albeit probably the least interesting "artist" post-Idol. He's the musical equivalent of milk, but it's really good milk.

I figure you understand where I'm going with all that. However, back to the Robbie Williams treatise.

OK, how Robbie Williams wasn't a States-side superstar at this point, after the release of "Angels," is beyond me. Perhaps it is the bad-boy image. See, Robbie parties a little, loves his "fags" (watch it, you know what I mean) and might have dabbled in a drug or two.

And his musical passion is swing. Check out this live performance of "Let's Face The Music and Dance," with a moment at the beginning featuring a bit of foul language. So, you might keep the volume down. However, this one really underscores the guy's talent and Rat Pack-esque appeal.

The women love him, and the guys want to hang at the bar with him.

I certainly am not doing the guy any justice relative to his entire catalogue, I thought perhaps that if you were one of the millions of Americans completely unfamiliar with this cat, perhaps a little bloggage might introduce you to one of the planet's most interesting people of the past couple of decades.