Rick Astley

The instant Sunday Times bestseller 'A straight-talking yet frequently astonishing memoir' - The Times 'A book as idiosyncratic as it is nostalgic' - The Observer When Never Gonna Give You Up propelled Rick Astley into the pop stratosphere, it irrevocably changed his life. Nothing could have prepared the boy from Lancashire for what was in store for him. At just...

'I hadn't been very comfortable with fame, but I didn't know what to do with myself after I was famous. On the surface, I was just hugely relieved to be shot of the whole thing. I felt like I'd been let off the hook... But underneath that, I was pretty miserable.' When Never Gonna Give You Up propelled Rick Astley...

Fame didn't actually make me happy. I was an insecure twenty-year-old and being famous made things worse back then. It was an era all about the way you looked, and I still don't know how I squeezed through. I did enjoy myself for a lot of it, but at some point, you're looking in the mirror and going: 'Is this...