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Rick Astley brought me up on stage at Sunrise!!’

Donnie this was the best bday present ever thank you for bringing me up on stage when you saw my vinyl!!! Rick, NKOTB, En Vogue and Salt N Pepa were all amazing!!! I love your music and the energy of this concert is out this world. Thank you so much for all the love, your talent and music please keep coming back, we will be there!!!! We will grow old with your music!!! So much talent in one concert, it’s unbelievable. Fans you can’t miss this beautiful experience!!!

Hi! I love Rick and saw him in the 80's! I haven't been to a show but I'm curious about what there is a stage B? Is this where Rick will perform? I want to know if I should buy a ticket closer to Stage B so I can see him up close!

Rick is still Rollin' in the US!

Only four stars because there was not enough Rick! St. Louis loves Rick Astley! Drove from Oklahoma to see Rick Astley with NKOTB. Came only for Rick! NOT ENOUGH RICK ASTLEY!!!!! His voice is as beautiful as ever, he never disappoints! There just needs to be MORE! Moved on to Kansas City after not having enough Rick in St. Louis. . . . NOT ENOUGH Rick Astley again! Same songs. . . NOT complaining! They are ALL wondering and could listen to them ALL day, but with all the people that came BECAUSE OF RICK ASTLEY, we may want to hear some of his newer stuff? The US isn't THAT backwards! Seriously? Traveling by vehicle, stopping for gas, food, and breaks. . .people stopping us with our Rick Astley tees on "LOVE YOUR SHIRT!" "Where did you get your shirt?" "Are you from the UK, or how did you get your shirt?" "REALLY? HE'S TOURING IN THE US?" "WHERE IS HE?" Astley! You are a bigger draw that you think! You have MORE fans in the US than you realize! We drove on to OKCity! Another blast! Baught the PartyPity tickets just to be up close and personal when you were on the little stage. There were a bunch of us that had done the same thing! Then there are the second gens all around there for Rick Astley! Just crying to be that close to Rick Astley. CRYING to touch his hand! Rick Astley! We are NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UP! Seriously thinking of driving on down to N'Awlins. . . . Just for you, man!

Rick Astley is great!

Very high energy and entertaining. What a beautiful and powerful voice!

Rick Still Has It!

I remember seeing Rick Astley in the 80's, he was just as fun and energetic today as he was back then! His voice is amazing and he looks great! I know some of his music has a cheese factor, however it also brings back a lot of great memories!! If you have a chance to see him live go!! You will not be disappointed! The cover songs alone are worth the price of admission!

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Rick Astley was amazing! His voice is just as good as ever! He put on an incredibly entertaining show with a mix of old and new stuff. He's got a great band and back up singers as well. I can't wait to see him again! Great show!

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Richard Paul Astley does not disappoint . This was our second time to see him in concert at the Loft - Center Stage and he was his fabulous self interacting with the audience and sharing bits of his life with everyone. This man puts 110% into every song he sings as well as trying to do a song set that includes something for everyone. His sense of humor is great and he keeps the audience laughing while he is all over the stage and rarely in one place very long. His energy and voice is unbelievable. He belts it out the entire time for over an hour and forty minutes non stop. Keeping in mind that this was his last show of the tour and he gave it his all. I do not understand how a man's voice can hold up the way his does, just as strong as ever. "It Takes a Strong, Strong Man. On a lesser note, the sound system was not so good as last year's pushing out the music a little hard and covering the vocals at times. We quickly learned to live with that and thoroughly enjoyed the show!

He rocked the house in Chicago!

What a great show! he has not change at all- the looks, the voice- very charming too! We have been waiting for so long for him to come to Chicago! I cant wait to see him again!

Rick knows the rules and so do I

What a great concert experience that my wife and I won’t forget.Rick didn’t disappoint.Old songs plus new and great crowd interaction.We even met him after and he signed autographs and took pics.Just a cool guy.Cant wait to see him again somewhere.

Rick Astley is better than ever!

Astley is like a fine wine: only getting better with age! I traveled from Texas to see the last show on his "50" tour & it was beyond worth it. He is a wonderful person, talented artist, & the most underrated crooner of our time.

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Rick Astley on playing U.S. arenas in 2022: 'How lucky are we?'

29 years after his last hit single in the States, Rick Astley is suddenly on the biggest U.S. tour of his career. From now through July, the British pop crooner will play more than 50 dates, almost all of them in arenas. 

He's a special guest on New Kid On The Block's "Mixtape Tour," along with fellow '80s/'90s hitmakers Salt N Pepa and En Vogue.

When The Tennessean reached Astley this week, it was the morning after the tour's opening night in Cincinnati, which closed with him and the rest of the acts singing his signature 1987 hit "Never Gonna Give You Up."

"I kind of love the fact that last night I sung in front of 15,000 people," he says. "...And then today, I'm in Bed Bath and Beyond looking for a coffee machine for the bus. I could be whistling 'Never Gonna Give You Up,' and there's no chance somebody would recognize me."

We doubt that. Thanks to the power of  "Give You Up" — which reignited Astley's career in 2008 via "Rickrolling," the internet prank that refuses to die — we'd bet more people on this side of the pond know the 56-year-old than ever before.

Ahead of the tour's stop at Nashville's Bridgestone Arena on Friday, Astley shared a few stories and insights with us — why he joined the tour, his favorite country songs and why it's only natural for music to make you feel nostalgic.

An easy decision: "When this offer came, I talked to my wife and said, 'This tour will go to states that I will never get to play in, and we'll never see unless we're gonna do some crazy road trip.'  One of our favorite things to do is toast the sunset with half a glass of Chardonnay before I have to go on, and say, 'How lucky are we?’”

A concert on shuffle: The "Mixtape Tour" takes a non-linear approach. NKOTB are the first to take the stage, and their guests play mini-sets throughout the evening. 

"They know what their fans want. And I think they wanted to feel a bit more like a party. It's like your friends made you a mixtape."

"There are lot of artists who hate using the term nostalgia...I'm sorry, if you've got 30 years behind you in music or doing anything, there's some nostalgia to the bigger moments of it. I just don't think it's a dirty word."

Fronting the Foos: "Rickrolling" has led to Astley being asked to surprise audiences in all sorts of places , from TV weather reports to the Macy's Parade.

But the best was a surprise to Astley, too. As he watched Foo Fighters from the side of stage at a 2017 festival in Tokyo, Dave Grohl came over and invited him to sing his signature hit with them — immediately. Astley called it a "mad, wonderful and beautiful experience."

"Obviously those guys are just amazing," Astley says of the band, whose drummer Taylor Hawkins died at age 50 in March. "And heaven knows what's going on in their house right now."

His country side: Ahead of his latest trip to Music City, Astley singles out Bonnie Raitt's "I Can't Make You Love Me" (a pop hit penned by country songwriting greats) and Chris Stapleton's "Either Way" as personal favorites.

Not living in the past: In 2016, Astley released his first album in 10 years: "50," it was bit of a musical "bucket list" moment, inspired by his 50th birthday. 

"Instead of buying a boat or a Ferrari or crossing America on a Harley Davidson, I wanted to make a record," he says. "And the crazy thing was we had the No. 1 album in the U.K., which is just madness."

Since then, he's put out another successful full-length, a greatest hits collection and a just-released 35th anniversary edition of his debut album, "Whenever You Need Somebody."

If You Go: The Mixtape Tour with New Kids On The Block, Rick Astley, Salt N Pepa and En Vogue comes to Nashville's Bridgestone Arena on Friday. The show starts at 8 p.m., and tickets start at $25.

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Rick Astley: Inside the home studio where he masterminded his comeback

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"We've tidied up a bit," says Rick Astley, welcoming us into his recording studio. "Well, my wife has... I don't really like it.

"I don't trust anyone who has a tidy studio, do you know what I mean? Sometimes you go in and you feel like you're messing the place up just by being there."

This is definitively not the case in Astley Towers™, a generously proportioned family home in the leafy suburbs of Surrey.

The singer immediately makes us feel at home, throwing open the front door as we pull up on the driveway and welcoming us inside.

Barefoot and be-quiffed, he beckons us into the kitchen for a freshly-brewed cuppa, demonstrating skills that must have made him invaluable Stock Aitken and Waterman's tea boy back in the 80s. We are even presented with a choice of mugs to complement the various blends on offer.

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Caffeine administered, Astley shows us into the studio, which leads immediately off the kitchen at the back of his house (the vocal booth even doubles up as a wine cellar).

It's as cosy and familiar as any parent's home office, centred around a computer balanced on an Ikea workstation, the assembly instructions still tucked under the keyboard, and his spare glasses resting next to the monitor.

Except this home office also happens to have a baby grand piano and a dismantled drum kit shoved in the corner. Oh, and it's here that Astley wrote, sang and recorded his comeback album, 50: A soulful, revealing collection of pop songs that put him back at the top of the charts, 23 years after he quit the music industry.

"I honestly didn't envisage it that way," he says. "When I made 50 I was doing it for me. I thought I'd release it in a very home-grown way, like where you just put it on the internet somehow.

"I wasn't necessarily anticipating going to a record label and trying to get it on the radio. I didn't think that was possible, if I'm honest. I'd given up that a long time ago."

50 went on to sell more than 300,000 copies, knocking music icon Paul Simon off number one, and easing Astley out of retirement. Not bad for someone who'd spent the preceding decade as the source of an internet prank - "rickrolling" - where users would be tricked into clicking a link for his 1987 pop smash Never Gonna Give You Up.

Like his dancing in the video, the song was awkward and gauche, but it charted all around the world.

Within seven months of its release, Astley was a millionaire, but you always got the sense the material was under-selling his voice.

"I'm not so sure Stock, Aitken and Waterman were focused on finding people who were going to be legendary vocalists," he says, semi-diplomatically.

"As the singer, you came in, you sang the song, you went. And I was okay with that - they were creating their sound, and we were going to be put into that."

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"Pop music is very different now," he adds. "If you look at Billie Eilish, she's as much a part of her records as anybody, and I think that was harder in the 80s. You were a bit more a product of the machinery."

Despite what you might think, he's not ashamed of those songs. Hits like Together Forever and Whenever You Need Somebody are "ingrained in my DNA," says Astley, and he's never gonna give up playing them live.

"I'm probably hyper aware of not betraying the audience," he admits. "The people that come to my gigs, as a whole, have got families and lives and all the rest of it, and they're giving up something to come out for the night. You just can't take that for granted."

Not a 'true artist'

So he won't be doing a Bob Dylan and reworking Cry For Help into a croaky folk dirge?

"Well, artists have every right to do whatever they want to do, and he's the epitome of that," says the singer.

"But I've heard so many people who are massive fans of Bob Dylan, who've gone to a gig and don't even know what songs he's doing 'til half way through verse two.

"I always feel obliged to please my audience, if I'm honest. Maybe that means I'm not a 'true artist', and I'm all right with that."

It's a typically modest response. Astley is cautious of ego and hyperbole and showbiz shenanigans, although he recently told Q Magazine "there were a few curtains pulled down and a few oranges thrown at a wall," at the height of his fame.

As he shows us round the studio, he's humble about his musical abilities ("I make simple records") and says he still finds it "weird to meet people you admire".

And while his house is full of expensive artwork and extravagantly feathered light shades, the only award he's ever put on display was for the Lion King soundtrack - on which he was persuaded to sing backing vocals after being discovered "hanging out" at the studio with a friend.

"That's pretty much the only platinum record I've ever had on the wall," he says. "It was in our daughter's bedroom because, obviously, she was a massive fan of that movie... as we all were."

Reimagined hits

Still, you can't hide your light under a bushel forever, so the singer is celebrating his resurgence with a Greatest Hits album that, for the first time, combines both phases of his career. Even so, he's not going to do the hard sell.

"If I'm being brutally honest, doing a 'Best Of' in this day and age is a bit weird, because every piece of music that's ever been recorded is already out there somewhere on a playlist," he says.

To make the package more attractive, he's added a new song, Every One Of Us, alongside a second disc that presents pared back, acoustic versions of his biggest hits.

"I was very aware of not wanting to take the sparkle out of them, because they're very sparkly records," he says.

So the melodies remained intact, even when the arrangements became "lower and darker", as on the pianoforte rework of Never Gonna Give You Up.

He thinks of the new recordings as "alternate universe versions" of the originals - which makes us wonder what sort of album an alternate universe Rick Astley would make?

"I think it would be a rock record, if I'm honest," says the singer - who regularly covers AC/DC's Highway To Hell in his live show; and who's become an occasional guest vocalist at Foo Fighters' gigs.

So could he ever envisage a full collaboration with Dave Grohl and company?

"They're a pretty amazing, ferocious live band and I think anybody in the world would want to make a record with them," he laughs.

"But I think it's nice that we get together sometimes and it's like 'Boom!' and then it just drifts off...

"It's been lots of fun, but I don't want to ever get into a situation where I take that for granted, do you know what I mean?"

Instead, he's content just to pootle around at the back of his house, making simple, heartfelt records that just so happen to sell in the hundreds of thousands.

"I guess I feel really comfortable here, in my own little way," he says, gesturing around the room.

"I've got all my toys here and the things I understand. And if I turn the lights down low enough, and I've got enough time, I can make a record."

Rick Astley's hits collection, The Best Of Me, is out this Friday.

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Rick Astley: ‘There’s definitely something in the idea that music saved my life’

The pop star on charming Glastonbury, his difficult childhood and the secret of his long marriage

B orn in Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire, in 1966, Rick Astley signed a production deal with Stock Aitken Waterman in his late teens, where he also worked as a teaboy and tape operator. His debut single, 1987’s Never Gonna Give You Up, got to No 1 in 25 countries, including the US, and later fuelled the internet phenomenon of Rickrolling, where a person is sent a link to its video that first appears to be something else (to date, the video has 1.4bn views on YouTube). Astley became one of the hits of this year’s Glastonbury with his self-deprecating Pyramid stage solo show and an afternoon set of Smiths covers with the indie band Blossoms . His ninth studio album, Are We There Yet? , is released next month.

How did you become such a sensation at Glastonbury? We got very lucky. Half an hour before my Pyramid stage set there was nobody there – my wife and I thought it was going to be a disaster. But my daughter, Emilie, who was steaming my trousers backstage – she doesn’t usually, I might add – said: “Dad, go and enjoy it like when you’re playing in a pub with the band… Forget about the cameras and everything.” And we did. And then there was the Smiths show later with Blossoms, which was bonkers.

People have been surprised that a pop star like you loved the Smiths. My big brother Mike introduced me to them, and I went a bit nuts about them. The fact they were from my nearby city, where I’d go and buy records, blew my mind – a friend and I stalked [bassist] Andy Rourke around town once, amazed he was real. They still sound so unique, with this very English way of singing that only a few other bands, like Pulp, do well. I couldn’t sing about love in anything but a mid-Atlantic twang.

Johnny Marr tweeted criticism of your original Smiths covers shows with Blossoms in 202 1 . He’s since made up with them in person. Have you ever met? No. We both played Electric Picnic recently and I watched his show – his style of playing and technique is also like nobody else. But I wouldn’t talk to him because it’s really strange and weird. Really, nobody should cover the Smiths, but all this came from a real love of the songs, and a chat I had with Blossoms, where I said: “In another universe, I’m going to be in a Smiths pub covers band”, then them later asking me if I fancied it. And it grew into this mad thing. It turns out lots of people want to go to a full concert of just Smiths songs!

What are your thoughts about Morrissey? I haven’t delved into things he’s said – I don’t feel that I want to, as I idolised him as a kid. I still have a quiff! Maybe I should own [the controversy around him] a bit more, but I’ve separated the art from the artist.

The second song in your Glastonbury solo set, 2016 ’s Keep Singing , talked about your tough childhood [Astley’s parents divorced when he was five ; he then lived with his father but estranged himself from him as an adult ]. How do you handle those memories? I’m not sure why it came when it did, but that first line – “When I was a boy/ I saw my daddy crying at the steering wheel” – fell out of me. It’s a true memory. That was a different era, when boys looked up to their dads as strong, silent types, and it frightened me. Joining a choir, and then teenage bands, got me out of the house, and singing made me feel other emotions, like joy. Some people think it’s a bit strong when they hear someone saying music saved my life, but for me there’s definitely something in that.

What’s the best Rick roll you’ve seen? One where they’ve cut up Barack Obama’s speeches to make it look like he’s singing the song. Apparently, the staff in the White House Rickrolled each other – and I assume the president is staff? I hope so!

A video of you dancing to Dua Lipa’s Don’t Start Now while jet-washing your bins went viral during lockdown. Do you have any other hobbies? I’m a bit of a snob with wine these days. Not super-expensive stuff – only at Christmas or something – but I like a Chilean chardonnay or a posh white burgundy. My Danish friends have this joke where they sniff any wine I’ve brought and say “buttery”, as that’s apparently what I do.

Your wife, Lene Bausager , is Danish, and you’ve been together since 198 9. What’s the secret of a long relationship? Respect. I’ve seen friends who’ve lost that, and without it you’re screwed. Obviously I still fancy Lene, but I think the truth and reality of it is I’ve got such respect for who she is as a person. Everything else comes second.

What’s better about the music industry today? Hardly any women used to work in live music crews, but we now have a female lighting director, a female guitar tech, female monitors, which is brilliant. It’s mind-boggling to think there used to be a time when girls were told: “You can’t do those jobs – go to wardrobe, love.”

And worse? The internet can be very brutal for younger artists, but it can also be an amazing tool, where you can post something intimate, from the horse’s mouth, without gatekeepers. Then again, I heard Warners are releasing an AI pop singer, so for some kinds of music it’s probably already over. But at the end of the day we need to be around human beings. I don’t think we’ll ever lose that.

Are We There Yet? is out on 6 October on BMG. Rick Astley tours the UK this autumn and again in 2024

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New Kids On The Block Announce The Ultimate Party With The MixTape Tour 2022

FEATURING LEGENDARY SPECIAL GUESTS SALT-N-PEPA, RICK ASTLEY & EN VOGUE 

The four iconic acts have sold more than 150 million albums combined, the mixtape tour 2022 will travel to 50+ cities in arenas across north america next summer, tickets on sale friday, october 8  here.

Today, multiplatinum selling pop super-group  New Kids On The Block  continues the party like nobody else can with the announcement of The  MixTape Tour   2022 , with their friends  Salt-N-Pepa ,  Rick Astley  and  En Vogue  as legendary special guests. 

Produced by Live Nation, the four iconic acts will embark on The  MixTape Tour 2022  for its 50+ date journey beginning  May 10  in Cincinnati, OH and make stops in arenas in Nashville, Dallas, Los Angeles, Atlanta and more, before wrapping  July 23  in Washington, DC. See full itinerary below. Tickets go on sale  Friday, October 8  at  Ticketmaster.com . For more information on VIP packages and NKOTB fan club pre-sales, please visit  www.nkotb.com . 

In celebration of the tour announcement, the four iconic acts will appear on  The Kelly Clarkson Show   todayfor a  “Kelly’s New Kids on the Block Party”  show takeover that gives fans a sneak peek into what they can expect from the dynamic, unbeatable live show, including a performance from  NKOTB . Watch a sneak peek of the appearance  HERE .

“We had a blast out on the first MixTape Tour in 2019, and can’t wait to take it to another level with our fans on the  MixTape Tour 2022 ,”  Donnie Wahlberg  said. “Just like a mixtape, these shows are going to take audiences through all the emotions. To be able to have  Salt-N-Pepa  come back and now also have the iconic and legendary  Rick Astley  &  En Vogue  join the tour… we could not be more excited. Let’s GO!”

The  MixTape Tour 2022  is already shaping up to be a can’t miss night out where fans can hear chart-topping hits and legendary catalogues spanning generations all night long. It follows the colossal commercial and critical success of  NKOTB ’s 2019 tour by the same name – their biggest since reuniting in 2008 – which grossed $53.2 million, sold more than 650,000 tickets and pioneered a super-sized show each night with multiple acts (Salt-N-Pepa, Tiffany, Naughty By Nature and Debbie Gibson) hitting the stage and reimagining what a special guest on a tour could look like. 

NKOTB  will hit the stage on the  MixTape Tour 2022  to perform fan favorite #1 hits like “Hangin’ Tough,” “I’ll Be Loving You (Forever),” and “Step By Step” while tour mates  Salt-N-Pepa  (“Push It,” “Shoop,” “Whatta Man”),  Rick Astley  (“Never Gonna Give You Up,” “Together Forever”) and  En Vogue  (“Don’t Let Go [Love],” “Free Your Mind,” “Give It Up, Turn It Loose,” “Hold On”) keep the party going with music that catapulted them to stardom and solidified their places in music history. 

NKOTB  most recently returned to the stage for an epic, one night only,  sold out  performance at Fenway Park on August 6 in their beloved hometown of Boston, MA. Watch a recap  HERE . The show marked their first performance in two years, their third show at Fenway Park, and a preview of the explosive live energy from the group that fans can expect from the  MixTape Tour 2022.

In 2021,  Salt-N-Pepa  received a Lifetime Achievement Award. 2022 will kick up with  Salt-N-Pepa  dedicating their Hollywood Walk of Fame star.

Over the past two years,  Rick Astley  has amassed million YouTube followers with a series of covers from his studio and become a major force on TikTok with 1.7 million followers. “Never Gonna Give You Up” was recently featured on the critically acclaimed series  Ted Lasso  on Apple TV+ and its video has been viewed more than 1 billion times.

En Vogue  celebrated the 30 th  anniversary of their first album  Born To Sing  on April 3, 2020, when it was reissued on Rhino Records, closed out the 2020 Billboard Music Awards with a performance of “Free Your Mind,” and launched their  Funky Divas  podcast. In March, they appeared with  Salt-N-Pepa  in  Coming 2 America  for a show-stopping performance of their hit song “Whatta Man” that was aptly titled “Whatta King” and was featured on the film’s soundtrack. In 2018, they released their album  Electric Café , with a top 10 single (“Rocket”). Recent collaborations have included Snoop Dogg, Raphael Saadiq and Chance the Rapper.

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About New Kids On The Block:

New Kids on the Block have sold more than 80 million albums worldwide — including back-to-back international #1 songs, 1988’s Hangin’ Tough and 1990’s Step By Step — and a series of crossover smash R&B, pop hits like “You Got It (The Right Stuff),”  “Cover Girl,” “Didn’t I (Blow Your Mind This Time),” “Hangin’ Tough,” “I’ll Be Loving You,” “Step By Step” and “Tonight.” The group which started with humble Boston beginnings grew to shatter concert box office records playing an estimated 200 concerts a year, in sold out stadiums throughout the world.  Since reuniting in 2007, NKOTB have toured consistently to sold out arenas, have sold nearly 4 million tickets and have doubled their crowd sizes. The Boston natives have been bestowed with their very own, “New Kids on the Block Day,” an honor not many can claim, and have played Fenway twice before. The group solidified their place in Hollywood with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame since reuniting and will continue representing Boston on their journey long into the future.

About Salt-N-Pepa

“Push It” — Salt-N-Pepa’s signature party-pumping anthem about getting your grind on — started out meaning one thing and turned out to mean something else. Something bigger. Because in a 35-year-career that took them from Queens to rap royalty, the duo of Cheryl “Salt” James and Sandra “Pepa” Denton have pushed it real good as a trailblazing duo that changed the game for women in hip-hop. In the golden age of the genre that they helped put on the music map, they became, quite simply, the First Ladies of Hip-Hop. Now the pioneering pair are living legends who get to see their legacy playing out while they’re very much still making moves. “Over the years, we’ve had every female rapper come up to us and say that we were their role models,” says Salt. “We were their inspiration. We were the reason that they felt like, as women, they could do this in a man’s world. It just gave me another level of appreciation for what we experienced as well as what we accomplished.” And what a lofty list of accomplishments there has been for Salt-N-Pepa. They became the first female rap act to have an album go gold and then platinum. In 2021, Salt-N-Pepa received a Lifetime Achievement Award. 2022 will kick up with Salt-N-Pepa dedicating their Hollywood Walk of Fame star. “I love my Salt-N-Pepa,” says Pepa. “I work hard for it. To this day, I do. It’s a beautiful thing. And we’re still here with timeless music. I’m proud of that.” Reflecting on their legacy, Salt sums it up: “We have the anointing of being the first to do things for women in hip-hop. And I think that it’s important that we have represented women in an inspirational way — as bosses, as women who have persevered through adversity and misogyny in this business, as mothers, as real women who’ve gone through real-life situations and kept it pushing.”

About Rick Astley

Rick Astley is enjoying a major career resurgence, having already sold more than 40 million albums fueled by hits like the chart-topping ‘Never Gonna Give You Up’, ‘Whenever You Need Somebody’, ‘Together Forever’, ‘When I Fall in Love’, ‘She Wants To Dance With Me’ and ‘Cry For Help’. In 2016 he returned with new music and released a wholly self-penned platinum album ’50’ that has to date sold more than 400,000 copies. In 2018 he followed it up with another top ten album, ‘Beautiful Life’. In 2019 Rick released a career spanning top 5 album ‘The Best of Me’, a best of compilation with eleven additional reimagined tracks and new single ‘Every One Of Us’. 2019 also saw Rick complete a gargantuan 38-date stadium tour as special guest to Take That, during which he played to over 500,000 people. He also graced the main stage of the legendary Reading Festival, performing ‘Never Gonna Give You Up’ with the Foo Fighters. Just before the pandemic Rick toured Australia and New Zealand with a-ha, playing 8 sold out dates in arenas across the region. During the pandemic, Rick has amassed 2 Million YouTube followers with a series of lockdown covers from his studio and become a major force on TikTok with 1.7 Million followers and selected as one of Louder’s top 10 must follow artists on the platform. He has also used this time to publicly support the NHS and organise 2 free concerts for NHS staff at Wembley and Manchester Arena during his UK Arena tour this October.

About En Vogue

Celebrating 30 years in music and recognized as one of the top 5 highest selling American female music groups in history, En Vogue currently consists of Cindy Heron-Braggs, Terry Ellis and Rhona Bennett. En Vogue’s accolades included 7 MTV Music Video Awards, 3 Soul Train Music Awards, 2 American Music Awards, a Billboard and Lady of Soul Award and countless Grammy nominations. To date, En Vogue has garnered 221 million US streams and 325 worldwide streams, with 60 million YouTube views. In 2004 their sixth album, Soul Flower hit the Billboard Top 20 for indie albums. In 2018, Electric Café, produced the Ne-Yo-penned Top 10 hit single, “Rocket,” their Top 20 follow-up, “Reach 4 Me”, and collaborations with Snoop Dogg and Raphael Saadiq. in 2019 they also collaborated with Chance the Rapper alongside Kierra Sheard and Ari Lennox on “I Got You (Always and Forever) for his album, The Big Day. Actress and producer Taraji P. Henson tapped them to appear in an episode of the final season of the groundbreaking TV series Empire for her directorial debut. Dresses from their iconic “Giving Him Something He Can Feel,” video housed in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) illustrate En Vogue’s profound impact, historically and culturally, in both music and fashion. Not to be slowed down, during the pandemic they appeared in Eddie Murphy’s record breaking Coming 2 America movie, launched their very own “Funky Divas” podcast, closed the 2020 Billboard Music Awards with their timeless anthem “Free Your Mind”, performed on Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin Eve, and received the 2020 Urban Music Icon Award from the Black Music Honors for their longevity and musical legacy.

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Rick Astley announces headline tour including Manchester date

The tour features a number of massive arena dates in 2024 including one at Manchester’s AO Arena

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Singer Rick Astley has announced details of a UK headline tour and long-awaited studio album. The tour, which starts with two dates at London’s Royal Albert Hall this November, will be followed by massive arena dates in 2024 culminating at Manchester’s AO Arena.

On the tour, he'll be joined by special guests Belinda Carlisle and The Feeling. The news comes as Astley prepares to make his Glastonbury debut this Saturday when he opens the Pyramid Stage. Earlier this month, the singer said he was "in shock" ahead of "Bonkers" show at Worthy Farm, and said it was "an amazing honour and privilege" to be asked to play.

Tickets for his headline tour will be available for pre-sale at 9.30am on Wednesday, June 21, and will remain live until remaining tickets go on general sale from 9.30am on Friday, June 23 via Ticketmaster .

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It comes as the 'Never Gonna Give You Up' singer also announces his long awaited ninth studio album ‘Are We There Yet?' which will be released on October 6th. It marks the first release since 2018's 'Beautiful Life', and many of the songs on the album were started in lockdown 2020, but left deliberately unfinished until it was feasible to play them live again.

As with ‘50’ and ‘Beautiful Life’, the album was entirely written, recorded and produced by Rick at his home studio in south-west London. He performed almost everything you hear throughout the record, the only exceptions being brass, keyboards and some backing vocals.

It’s been 36 years since the English singer first shot to fame, and he's still winning over new fans - whether he’s performing with Foo Fighters, Take That or Stockport's very own Blossoms, becoming an unlikely social media sensation, or embracing the fandom around his smash hit ‘Never Gonna Give You Up’. And, since returned to number 1 in 2016 with ‘50’, the singer has enjoyed the strongest run of album chart positions of his entire career.

Fans who pre-order the new album by 7pm on June 20 will receive access to a pre-sale for tour tickets. The pre-sale opens at 9.30am on Wednesday, June 21, while general sale goes live on at 9.30am on Friday, June 23. Tickets can be purchased via Ticketmaster .

In addition to the new tour dates and Glastonbury, Astley is also confirmed to play Standon Calling, Kendal Calling, Paloznaki Jazzpiknik in Hungary, Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen, Carfest South, The Big Feastival, and Radio 2 Live in The Park.

Rick Astley UK tour dates in full:

• Wednesday 1st November - London Royal Albert Hall
• Thursday 2nd November London Royal Albert Hall
• Thursday 22nd February - Nottingham Motorpoint Arena
• Friday 23rd February - Newcastle Utilita Arena
• Saturday 24th February - Leeds First Direct Arena
• Monday 26th - February Cardiff International Arena
• Tuesday 27th February - Glasgow OVO Hydro
• Thursday 29th February - Bournemouth International Centre
• Friday 1st March- - Birmingham Resorts World Arena
• Saturday 2nd March - Manchester AO Arena
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RICK ASTLEY WITH VERY SPECIAL GUESTS SCOUTING FOR GIRLS & THE LOTTERY WINNERS

Pop legend rick astley, known for 80’s tour de force ‘never gonna give you up’, will be bringing his "are we there yet" tour to liverpool this march.

Doors Open:  6:00pm

The Lottery Winners:  7:00pm - 7:25pm

Interval : 7:25pm - 7:50pm

Scouting for Girls : 7:50pm - 8:30pm

Rick Astley :   8:55pm - 10:30pm

Approx Finish:  10:30pm

With over 40 million record sales worldwide to his name, the Merseyside-born singer has been a household name for more than 30 years.

It’s been 36 years since he first shot to fame, yet Rick Astley is now arguably a more prominent force in popular culture than he ever was. The endearingly boyish 57-year-old is still winning over new fans, whether he’s performing with Foo Fighters, Take That or Blossoms; becoming an unlikely social media sensation; or simply embracing the unending love that greets his era-defining smash ‘ Never Gonna Give You Up ’ which was boosted by its use in an intensely affecting scene in ‘Ted Lasso’. Indeed, since returning to #1 in 2016 with ‘50’, Rick has enjoyed the strongest run of album chart positions of his entire career.

Rick’s Glastonbury sets which made him the talk of the nation: first opening Saturday’s festivities in style with a triumphant performance which mixed crowd-pleasing ‘80s classics alongside some typically classy covers, and then later that day, his latest show with Blossoms as they teamed up for a euphoric, life-affirming set of classic songs by The Smiths.

A towering R&B ballad rich with warm live instrumentation, ‘Never Gonna Stop’ proves that Rick’s sumptuous voice continues to grow in stature. His vocals simmer with feeling as his lyrics explore the belief that a personal human connection is the one thing that can counteract the madness that permeates the world. 

‘ Never Gonna Stop ’ follows the album’s lead single ‘ Dippin My Feet ’, which received its first play courtesy of Zoe Ball at Radio 2. The two songs preview a twelve-track record, which was inspired, in part, by the vast open roads that Rick was surrounded by throughout last summer’s huge North American arena tour with New Kids on The Block, Salt-N-Pepa and En Vogue. 

PRAISE FOR RICK ASTLEY AT GLASTONBURY:

“ Up until today, people thought that Brinks-Mat was the biggest robbery in UK history, but that has just changed as Rick Astley has just stolen Glastonbury! ” Dermot O’Leary

“ Arise Rick Astley, the newly crowned King of Glastonbury Festival. Pop’s all-round gentleman proved to be one of the major highlights of Worthy Farm .” - Clash

“ A mass singalong of such volume that it threatens to drown Astley out entirely .” - The Guardian

“ What a set it was .” - NME

“ A brilliant addition to the festival .”- Rolling Stone

Under 14's must be accompanied by an adult. Tickets will be limited to 8 per person. 

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Ultimate Rick Astley – Best Floor Seat Package Enjoy the live show from a top price seated floor ticket Commemorate your night with your exclusive VIP goody bag which includes: • Rick Astley VIP A4 lithograph, pre-signed by Rick • Rick Astley VIP laminate and lanyard • Rick Astley postcard set

Ultimate Rick Astley – Best Tiered Seat Package Enjoy the live show from a top price tiered seat Commemorate your night with your exclusive VIP goody bag which includes: • Rick Astley VIP A4 lithograph, pre-signed by Rick • Rick Astley VIP laminate and lanyard • Rick Astley postcard set

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