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Rick Astley

Singer, songwriter and radio presenter

United Kingdom · b. 1966

English singer, songwriter and radio presenter whose debut single Never Gonna Give You Up was a number one hit in more than twenty-five countries.

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Question Who most deserves an apology from you, and why? Failure & regret read 208 other answers →

My wife, because she manages me and sometimes there isn’t time for niceties and we have to talk in a language that isn’t very marriage-like.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 October 2018 source ↗

Question What song would you like played at your funeral? Death & what remains read 177 other answers →

I’d like to go all melodramatic and have Vide cor Meum by Patrick Cassidy from Kingdom Of Heaven. It’s also in another Ridley Scott movie, Hannibal. It’s an operatic piece and absolutely amazing. Obviously Ridley Scott thinks so, too..

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 October 2018 source ↗

Question What did you want to be when you were growing up? Identity & self read 190 other answers →

When I was about 14 and got my first drum kit, I wanted to be a drummer in a band like the Police.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 October 2018 source ↗

Question What has been your biggest disappointment? Failure & regret read 217 other answers →

Fame. The upside is not worth the downside – you can’t turn fame on and off, and have privacy.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 October 2018 source ↗

Question How close have you come to death? Death & what remains read 208 other answers →

In the 1990s in New Jersey, being driven to a radio station early one morning. Our driver fell asleep and we were on the other side of a dual carriageway with cars coming at us. We all screamed and banged on the seat, and he woke up and pulled the car back across.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 October 2018 source ↗

Question What is the worst job you have done? Craft & work read 228 other answers →

I haven’t really had a job. I used to work at my dad’s garden centre in my late teens, but it was just messing around.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 October 2018 source ↗

Question If you had only one day left to live, how would you spend it — and what would you deliberately avoid doing? Death & what remains read 53 other answers →

I think I’d just like to be chilling out really, so it’s like real summer family holidays where the most important things to decide are what are you going to have for breakfast, what are you going to have for lunch, what beach are you going to, and what are you going to have for dinner.

Recorded Clash, Swan Song, 21 December 2016 source ↗

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