The name Robert is a Germanic given name, from hrod "fame" and beraht "bright". It is also in use as a surname.
After becoming widely used in Continental Europe it entered England in its Old French form Robert, where an Old English cognate form (Hrēodbēorht, Hrodberht, Hrēodbēorð, Hrœdbœrð, Hrœdberð) had existed before the Norman Conquest. The feminine version is Roberta. The Italian form is Roberto.
In Italy during the Second World War, the form of the name, Roberto, briefly acquired a new meaning derived from, and referring to the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis.
James Thomas "Jimmy" Fallon, Jr. (born September 19, 1974) is an American actor, comedian, singer, musician and television host. He currently hosts Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, a late-night talk show that airs Monday through Friday on NBC. Prior to that he appeared in several films, and was best known as a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 1998–2004.
James Thomas Fallon, Jr., was born in Brooklyn, New York. Jimmy is the son of Gloria and James Fallon, Sr., who is a Vietnam War veteran. His family later settled in Saugerties, New York, while his father worked at IBM in nearby Kingston, New York. He is of Irish descent. As a child, he and his older sister, Gloria, would reenact the “clean parts” of Saturday Night Live that his parents had taped for him. Fallon was such a fan of Saturday Night Live that he made a weekly event of watching it in his dormitory during college. In his teens, he impressed his parents with different impersonations, the first being of James Cagney. He was also musically inclined, and started playing guitar at age 13. He would go on to mix comedy and music in contests and shows.
Robert Anthony Plant, CBE (born 20 August 1948) is an English singer and songwriter best known as the vocalist and lyricist of the iconic rock band Led Zeppelin. He has also had a successful solo career. In 2007, Plant released Raising Sand, an album produced by T-Bone Burnett with American bluegrass soprano Alison Krauss, which won the 2009 Grammy Award for Album of the Year at the 51st Grammy Awards.
With a career spanning more than 40 years, Plant is regarded as one of the most significant singers in the history of rock music, and has influenced contemporaries and later singers such as Freddie Mercury and Axl Rose. In 2006, heavy metal magazine Hit Parader named Plant the "Greatest Metal Vocalist of All-Time". In 2009, Plant was voted "the greatest voice in rock" in a poll conducted by Planet Rock. In 2011, a Rolling Stone readers' pick placed Plant in first place of the magazine's "Best Lead Singers of All Time".
Plant was born in the Black Country town of West Bromwich (then in Staffordshire now in West Midlands) to parents Robert C. who worked as a civil engineer and Annie C. (Cain) Plant, but grew up in Kidderminster, in Worcestershire. Plant gained an interest in singing and rock and roll music at an early age.
Robert Thomas Pattinson (born 13 May 1986) is an English actor, model, musician, and producer. Born and raised in London, Pattinson started out his career by playing the role of Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Later, he landed the leading role of Edward Cullen in the film adaptations of the Twilight novels by Stephenie Meyer, and came to worldwide fame, thus establishing himself among the highest paid and most bankable actors in Hollywood. In 2010, Pattinson was named one of TIME magazine's 100 Most Influential People in The World, and also in the same year Forbes ranked him as one of the most powerful celebrities in the world in the Forbes Celebrity 100.
Pattinson was born in London, England. His mother, Clare, worked for a modelling agency, and his father, Richard, imported vintage cars from the U.S. Pattinson has two elder sisters, singer Lizzy Pattinson, and Victoria Pattinson. Growing up in the Barnes suburb of London, he attended Tower House School until he was 12, and then The Harrodian School. He became involved in amateur theatre at the Barnes Theatre Company. He auditioned and was cast in a small role in Guys and Dolls. He next auditioned for Thornton Wilder's Our Town and was cast as George Gibbs. He also played in Anything Goes and Macbeth. He caught the attention of an acting agent in a production of Tess of the d'Urbervilles and began looking for professional roles.
Robert Krulwich is an American radio and television journalist whose specialty is explaining complex topics in depth. He has worked as a full-time employee of ABC, CBS, National Public Radio, and Pacifica. He has done assignment pieces for ABC's Nightline and World News Tonight, as well as PBS's Frontline, NOVA, and NOW with Bill Moyers. TV Guide called him "the most inventive network reporter in television", and New York Magazine wrote that he's "the man who simplifies without being simple".
Krulwich received his bachelor's degree in U.S. history from Oberlin College in 1969 and his Juris Doctor degree from Columbia Law School in 1974. Just two months later, he abandoned his pursuit of a law career to cover the Watergate hearings for Pacifica Radio. In 1976, he became Washington bureau chief for Rolling Stone.
From 1978 to 1985, he was the business and economics correspondent for NPR. Among other creative efforts, he recorded an opera called "Rato Interesso" to explain interest rates. He went on to host the PBS arts series The Edge.
Robert's appearance is something to behold
Dressed in the finest of store bought clothes
My mamma sews my clothes cause I'm just a poor girl
But Robert is as real as his daddies gold
Robert could have any girl that he wanted
But his feelings for me each day seems to grow
He don't know the reason, that he's so drawn to me
But there is a story that Robert doesn't know
Oh Robert
Oh Robert
Robert is constantly making eyes at me
He misunderstands the feelings we share
There's no way that I can return his glances
But I know the meaning of the feeling that's there
Robert if you knew, there once was a rich boy
In love with a poor girl, long time ago
But the folks of that rich boy, would not let them marry
And I am a symbol of the love that they stole
Oh Robert
Oh Robert
Robert, oh Robert if you only knew
The same blood is flowing in both me and you
That rich boy's your father, but he's also mine
And my mamma's the poor girl that he left behind
Oh Robert
Well, this is Robert
And I'm stoned again
Lights are out
A drink in my hand
I've got everything
What I do not need
And I finally reached
The dark end of the street
Oh. Robert
With a smile on his face
No more sorrows
Here in the mud
No tomorrows
Just a life on drug
My life is damned cold
I really lost my heat
Because I finally reached
The dark end of the street
I don't understand
Whatever I say
I use to talk in a very
Roundabout way
Lies are the trips through
My boaring days
Hoping once to get
Far away
I didn't leave footprints
Wherever I've been
I call it the value
Of not to be seen
Nobody knows me
A directory I don't need
It's rather lonely
At the dark end of the street
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Robert sitzt vor´m Fernseher
Doch das macht ihn nicht an
Jeden Abend derselbe Mist hier
Jeden Abend dasselbe Programm
Und er träumt wie es wohl wär´
Wenn er ein Mädchen hätte
So eine wie die Gisela
So eine richtig Nette
Das hast du dir doch selbst verbaut
Gisela die hat dir vertraut
Doch dann kamst du mit deiner Eifersucht
Und schlugst das arme Mädchen in die Flucht
Du bist mit ihr nie ausgegangen
Damit hat es damals angefangen
Du hattest immer Angst davor
Sie trifft mal einen anderen Mann
Doch Robert bitte stell dir mal vor
Den traf sie auch so
Und du bist schuld daran
Das hast du dir doch selbst verbaut
Gisela die hat dir vertraut
Doch dann kamst du mit deiner Eifersucht
Und schlugst das arme Mädchen in die Flucht
Neulich hast du sie mal wieder geseh´n
Vor´m Tschibo-Kaffeestand
Mittlerweile ist sie dick und rund
Und hat zwei Kinder und´n Schäferhund
Und plötzlich fühlt sich Robert nicht mehr allein
Denn so eine wie die Gisela
Die muß es wirklich nicht sein
Robert calls me on the telephone
He wants to make sure that I'm still at home
He pauses a second, mouths a silent prayer
It's nice to know that someone really cares
At all
His hands are planted and they're gonna stay
It's good as gone and very so far away
You say you want it want it want it
Opportunity is what you make
Whoa yea
Now its getting late oh
Your shoulders are moving, oh
And tell me where you're going, oh
Tell me where you're going, oh
Step foot out of this lonely house
You don't have to turn around, no
But tell me where you're going, oh
Tell me where you're going, oh
Robert keep your hands dry
Robert keep your hands out of sight
Now its getting late, oh
I can see straight through your skin
To your bones
And I know where you're going, oh
I know where you're going, oh
Robert keep your hands dry
Robert keep your hands out of sight
Robert keep your hands dry