Born in Lancashire in 1966, Rick Astley is a pop singer. He started his career as a teaboy at the music production company Stock Aitken Waterman before being recognised for his own musical talents. His 1987 debut album, Whenever You Need Somebody, sold 15.2m copies worldwide and featured the track Never Gonna Give You Up – a mega hit single that made him a household name not only in the 1980s but into the new millennium, too: the song became an internet phenomenon in 2007. He has released eight studio albums and his new single, Dippin’ My Feet, is out now.
There’s some serious shoulders going on here. Clothes were a bit of a weird thing for me at the time as I’d had a massive hit – No 1 for five weeks, the biggest song that year – but nobody had come to me and said: “Don’t worry, you’ll get a bit of cash in your account soon.” At this point I didn’t have my own money to buy anything. There’s every chance that I got that outfit from a stylist who had pulled it out for a photo session.
