Rick Astley
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Rick Astley: The Jimmy Tarbuck Syndrome
Interview by David Quantick, New Musical Express, 19 December 1987
Is 'When I Fall In Love' the vinyl voice of God? Or does it herald the golden age of the bathtub crooner? The apple of ...
Rick Astley: Apollo, Manchester
Live Review by Steven Wells, New Musical Express, 24 December 1988
IS RICK merely a driplet of festering pus oozing from a seeping SAW inflicted on the slashed side of the crucified pop-christ by the very ...
Live Review by Caroline Sullivan, Melody Maker, 24 December 1988
POOR LITTLE PUP. So keen to please, yet so reviled by the over-15's. Some bleak midnights, he must wonder: "What did I ever do to ...
Live Review by Simon Price, Melody Maker, 18 March 1989
SO THIS IS what we're supposed to be getting so angry about. Tonight is my first proper pop concert, and it's bizarre. They're screaming! At ...
Rick Astley: Never Gonna Give Who Up?
Report and Interview by David Quantick, Vox, March 1991
Tear down your glossy posters. For the days of teen idolism are over — according to the improved, longer-lasting Rick Astley. A new album and ...
Rick Astley: Free (RCA/All formats)
Review by Stuart Maconie, New Musical Express, 2 March 1991
RICK ASTLEY's new album is called Free. What can this mean? Surely, Rick is not implying that he was once merely a performing surf to ...
Retrospective by Daryl Easlea, Record Collector, December 2000
WARNING: this article contains extremely positive comments about "disposable" pop. ...
Never gonna give him up: How Rick Astley returned from the wilderness
Interview by Paul Sexton, Daily Telegraph, 9 September 2016
OVER COFFEE in a smart London hotel, Rick Astley is explaining his antidote to middle age. "I still play in a band, with a couple of friends. We ...
Review by Maura Johnston, The Village Voice, 6 October 2016
SAY THE NAME Rick Astley in 2016 and you'll probably get a reply involving his 1987 smash 'Never Gonna Give You Up', a brightly spangled ...
Interview by Carl Wiser, Songfacts, 3 August 2018
Rick Astley on 'Never Gonna Give You Up', 'Cry For Help' and his remarkable resurgence that gave him another #1 UK album. ...
Rick Astley: How we made 'Never Gonna Give You Up'
Interview by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 23 March 2020
"One day I was making the tea for Bananarama. The next I was at No 1." ...
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