'Fame didn't actually make me happy. I was an insecure twenty-year-old and being famous made things worse. 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 it, then?' Clichéd as this sounds, success is never going to mend something that is broken. You just have to work that out for yourself. And something was a bit broken in me - I think it is with almost everybody who gets on the stage.'Balancing nostalgia, fresh perspectives and introspection, Never begins with family and unconventional upbringings
journeys through the tumultuous and glamorous world of pop
and takes pause for self-reflection. Rick goes beyond the blinding lights of the stage - giving an intimate look at the man behind the hits - and is a portrait of truth, artistic evolution and the astounding power of contentment
Born in Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire in 1966, musician Rick Astley started his career at the music production company Stock Aitken Waterman. His 1987 debut album, Whenever You Need Somebody, sold 15.2m copies worldwide and made him a household name. Since then he has gone on to release eight studio albums, selling over 40 million records worldwide, and headline multiple world tours, including most recently a sell-out UK tour (2024). Never is his first and only official autobiography.
'Fame didn't actually make me happy. I was an insecure twenty-year-old and being famous made things worse.
Never features in the following genres: Biographies & Autobiographies, Lifestyle, Hobbies and Leisure, Autobiography: arts and entertainment, Popular music, Composers and songwriters, Musicians, singers, bands and groups, Memoirs
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Never was written by Rick Astley and published by Macmillan an imprint of Pan Macmillan
Never has 320 pages
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