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80s legend Rick Astley looks ahead to his upcoming UK tour and new music, while also remembering his iconic video for 'Never Gonna Give You Up', collaborating with Sir Elton John, meeting Ozzy Osbourne and more.
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sat down and noticed that Ozzy Osbourne is sat in the next kind of booth area and what have you
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with his wife. Rick Astley, what a huge pleasure to see you. Thank you, it's a pleasure to be here
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So we're talking about your tour, you're going on tour, so how are you feeling about that? Is that
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an exciting time for you? Yeah it is, it's the best part of it to be honest. I think a lot of
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the world I'm in is absolute nonsense to be honest and when we get to go out and do gigs
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you suddenly remember, oh yeah, that's why we do this. You've got the wonderful Gabrielle supporting
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Oh, yeah. She's toured with us before, and it's amazing, because her songs are fantastic
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I saw her early, early on in her career. A friend and I went into town. Into town, listen to me
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E, that London. And I can't remember where it was, but it wasn't a massive venue
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because she wasn't, you know, a big star at that point. She just sort of, you know. And I just came away from the gig thinking, like, her voice is amazing
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and she's got a very distinctive voice, and I think that's one of the things that's probably given her such a long career
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is that she doesn't sound like anybody else. Just the songs are really, really good
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And some of her songs have really stood the test of time, even though they were very, very contemporary at the time
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They sounded like, well, this sounds really current and da-da-da-da, but they still sound great today
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And not everyone's do. Looking back at your career, obviously you've seen huge success
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huge adulation. You've had periods that were a bit quieter. When you look at that period, sort of 90s, noughties
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was there a point where you thought actually maybe i'm gonna i'm gonna go off and do something else
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now i'm not gonna be i retired when i was 27 i think so i don't know what year that would be
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but it'd be the mid 90s or what have you i was still hanging on in there a little bit
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but i knew i wasn't really gonna have another hit if unless you know lightning strikes twice or or
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whatever um i probably could have hung on to a record deal and made a few more records who knows
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but it was just like my heart wasn in it I didn really want to do it I think I condensed an awful lot into four or five years and I kind of done it well not kind of I done it as a solo artist kind of on my own
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I did have people who worked with me and travelled me and all that, but it's not the same as being that dude
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And I think I was just done with it and I'd become, you know, we'd become parents
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And I used to look at the beautiful, lovely home that I had with a newborn daughter in it going
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well I'm off to promote records in wherever right now and think that I don't really want to do I
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don't want to do this anymore and I kind of felt like well maybe it's time to quit then so I wasn't
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at the peak of my powers no way and I think it was just a bit like the good boxers know when to
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quit and I think it was time for me to quit so and I really enjoyed my time away from it I would
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have liked to have been a songwriter and producer and that was my aim and I just don't have just
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don't have it i think i can write songs for myself and i think it's a different talent to do it for
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other people talk about rickrolling yes which is still one of the maddest things i think that's
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happened to a lot of artists of your sort of generation indeed what was the first time that
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someone mentioned this to you when did you realize how big it was going to be well i was on holiday
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i seem to get a lot of holidays in thank heavens where were you i was in italy i was on the amalfi
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coast and i was with my wife and her parents and my friend who's english but lives in america he's
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a big songwriting producer he rickrolled me and i obviously didn't know what that was i just got an
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email the video starts of whatever it was i can't remember probably something to do with football
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or whatever it was or something to do with keyboards knowing him and then um and then like
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10 seconds in at the appropriate moment it goes into the song never going to give you up the video
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so I'm like okay maybe you find that funny Andrew but I don't particularly but whatever so I emailed
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him that back then he did it again but with a different sequence like a different opening and
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then back into never going to give you up I like haha okay what are you doing so in the end I actually called him I went old school and called him and he said what do you mean you don know what it is and i like well what are you doing and he
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said i'm rickrolling you said i'm rickrolling the rick and rickroll i'm rickrolling you and he's
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like i don't i actually don't know what you're talking about this is a long time ago by the way
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so he explained it to me and i still didn't know what he was talking about so i kind of just sort
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of thought okay fine and just you know passed it off as like today's whatever nonsense and then it
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kind of hung around a little bit more and then it blew up a little bit and kind of went a bit
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bonkers for a minute um and i spoke to our daughter about it and she was in her teenage years at that
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point she's 33 now and um she kind of sort of passed it off as well and sort of said don't
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worry about it it'll be over tomorrow you know next week devon will be doing something else and um it has been a bit of a weird thing to have an old song find its spot in you know the internet
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universe i wanted to talk to you about the video because it's obviously iconic and i understand that
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you you got told to just turn up with a bag of your own clothes yeah because i was on the promo
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trail at that point we were four or five weeks in and i'd never been on a video shoot before
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and i think someone was there to style me and probably brought stuff that i was like
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nah, I'm not wearing that, love. And so, yeah, I had a raincoat with me
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I had my stripy T-shirt, my blazer, my chinos, double denim, boom
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Amazing. And, yeah, just thought, I think I'm going to wear that
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And somebody gave me a pair of Ray-Bans because it was really sunny. It was just one of those amazing, beautiful days in London
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where it was gorgeous and I couldn't keep my eyes open. So, I think, like, the DP, the director of photography
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said, oh, put these on, so I put the Ray-Bans on. I'm like, yeah, quite like that
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You've got a lovely story that you tell about Ozzy Osbourne There's a hotel in Los Angeles
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that is a very music it called the Sunset Marquee it a very music orientated hotel loads of artists stay there i mean i literally been sat next to you two depeche mode uh endless amounts of people you know um the drum and the
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bass player from the smiths uh just endless going to the bar we're on our way to go somewhere and
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the bar was tiny in those days it's now all kind of like quite she she and you know people go there
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just for a drink but in back in the day the bar was like somewhere you just nipped into before you
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went out or when you came home so i walked in there for a diet coke sat down and noticed that
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ozzy osborne is sat in the next kind of booth area and what have you with his wife i didn't know that
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was sharon osborne at the time but but it was his wife you know he leans over he sort of says i'm
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not going to do the accent i'm not going to try and do the accent but he leaned over and he said you're that you're that kid you know that what's his name i said uh yeah i am he said oh great he
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said how's it all going i said it's great he said are you over here touring i said oh no we haven't
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started playing live yet even i'm just on my first couple of singles and what have you know he said
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oh he said because if you want to put a band together i've worked with all the greatest musicians in the world to his credit he has like legends have come out of his band some of the
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greatest guitar players in the world have played in his band and bass players and drummers so at
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this point sharon leans over and says leave that poor boy alone will you he doesn't want to go and
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play with any of your tattooed monsters he's a nice lad leave him alone in that moment it's like
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Just the fact that he acknowledged me, I thought, was pretty cool. But, yeah, that was pretty..
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But the fact that she just obliterated him in, like, you know... But in a loving way, by the way
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But, like, kind of, like, just put him straight, like, you're dreaming. He sings pop songs
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Your tattooed monsters aren't going anywhere near him. I just thought it was hilarious
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That says lovely things about both of them. Both of them, yeah, exactly. That's a really, really lovely story. Exactly, it does, it does
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Rick, I could talk to you all day. You are such a pleasure to talk to. Thank you, my love. Thank you so much. And I urge everyone to go and see the tour
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Thank you. This is hot
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