Rick Astley’s spent this early-October afternoon enjoying the unusually warm weather, doing “bits and bobs,” playing with his new guitar pedal — “geeky-boring” stuff — casually denying that he’s one of the most celebrated artists of the year.
In 1987 – the year “Never Gonna Give You Up” was released – a 21-year-old dancing Rick emerged, a clean-cut class act with a big baritone voice. Despite a string of top singles to follow, it’s “Never Gonna Give You Up” that’s defined his pop-star career. Through the decades, and with the help of social media, the song reached cultural-phenomenon status, “Rickrolling” becoming a hoodwink-style verb for tricking someone into watching a loop of Rick dancing in the “Never Gonna Give You Up” video.
“Comeback” isn’t quite right, he didn’t exactly “go” anywhere. Not recently, anyway. In 2016, after a decade-long hiatus, he released his 7th studio album,reached the UK Top 10. And there was that time he quit music when he was around 27, “which is a death in itself… If you want to be poetic about it,” he says, following a serious discussion about the tragedy associated with that age., he made some songs for the hell of it, for himself, and he played all the instruments.
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