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I'm a person who tries not to have regrets.
Rick Astley / Singer-Songwriter
Persons
Regret
Trying
Regrets
Tries
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Id been bumming around in bands since my school days.
Rick Astley / Singer-Songwriter
Band
School
School Days
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I'd been bumming around in bands since my school days.
Rick Astley / Singer-Songwriter
School Days
Bands
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I don't like flying. I'm a bit scared of it and don't enjoy the whole experience.
Rick Astley / Singer-Songwriter
Flying
Scared
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I do have a thing for eating out; that's one of life's great middle-age pleasures.
Rick Astley / Singer-Songwriter
Age
Eating
Pleasure
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I'd had my time in the charts and made loads of money. I was no longer hungry for success.
Rick Astley / Singer-Songwriter
Hungry
Hungry For Success
Made
My Time
Success Time Money
Charts
Loads
Longer
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Back in the '80s, I was known for being reclusive, often shying away from media attention.
Rick Astley / Singer-Songwriter
Reclusive
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As a kid, I saw those ticker-tape parades in the movies, and I was really chuffed to be in one.
Rick Astley / Singer-Songwriter
Parades
Saw
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There's some songs you can cover, and I've covered and butchered a few, but you can't do them all.
Rick Astley / Singer-Songwriter
Cover
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I don't get recognised until I'm on stage, and then I can walk off and forget about it. It's great.
Rick Astley / Singer-Songwriter
Stage
Recognised
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I am honoured that my fans worked so hard to help me win Best Act Ever at the 2008 MTV Europe Music Awards.
Rick Astley / Singer-Songwriter
Awards
Fans
Mtv
Best Music Me
Best Music I Am
Honoured
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I come away from a gig thinking, 'Yeah, I'm worth something.' I can still do it and entertain people, and that's worth it.
Rick Astley / Singer-Songwriter
Thinking
Worth It
Yeah
Away
Thinking People I Can
Entertain
Entertain People
Gig
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I started out as a drummer, and now play with a back-to-basics rock band called the 'Luddites.' I'm happiest when I'm behind the kit.
Rick Astley / Singer-Songwriter
Band
Drummer
Play
Rocks
Behind
Happiest
Rock
Rock Band
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You can't explain the feeling of singing hit songs to an audience - it's like being a genuine sports star at the peak of their powers.
Rick Astley / Singer-Songwriter
Sports
Audience
Genuine
Singing
Song
Stars
Hit
Star
Explain
Peak
Powers
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Scientology always makes me think of that movie 'V' where that woman takes off her mask of human flesh to reveal her true, alien self.
Rick Astley / Singer-Songwriter
Flesh
Mask
Self
Thinking
Alien
Reveal
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Because the pop industry is cruel, if you don't do everything the label wants you to do, it has an army of other people waiting to do it.
Rick Astley / Singer-Songwriter
Army
Waiting
Cruel
Label
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It's really weird seeing someone impersonating you. But at the same time, Vic Reeves' impersonation of me is one of the highlights of my life.
Rick Astley / Singer-Songwriter
Highlights
Seeing
Life Time Me
Weird
Same Time
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I used to go to soul nights because I loved dancing, and so did my friends, and we loved the music. We used to go listen to black American soul.
Rick Astley / Singer-Songwriter
Dancing
Night
Soul
Music Soul Black
Nights
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I must admit, the constant invasion of privacy was becoming a real concern. Ive been asked for autographs while Ive been doing laps in the pool and even in the toilet!
Rick Astley / Singer-Songwriter
Lap
Real
Toilets
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I must admit, the constant invasion of privacy was becoming a real concern. I've been asked for autographs while I've been doing laps in the pool and even in the toilet!
Rick Astley / Singer-Songwriter
Autographs
Becoming
Concern
Constant
Invasion
Pool
Privacy
Admit
Asked
Toilet
Laps
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When I was a tiny tot, we only had one record player in the house, so there was either Genesis on it or the Jungle Book or The Beatles as well, and various other things.
Rick Astley / Singer-Songwriter
Genesis
Jungle
Tiny
Record Player
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I had my 15 minutes of being the new boy of pop, like lots of people before and after me. Overnight, everyone starts treating you differently, and perceives you differently.
Rick Astley / Singer-Songwriter
Before And After
Boys
People
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Dont expect fame to come overnight. That filtered through to me in my own career. Look at Madonna: shes not the best singer in the world, but shes got where she has through hard work.
Rick Astley / Singer-Songwriter
Careers
Hard Work
Looks
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Don't expect fame to come overnight. That filtered through to me in my own career. Look at Madonna: she's not the best singer in the world, but she's got where she has through hard work.
Rick Astley / Singer-Songwriter
Fame
Hard Work
Best Work Hard Work
Best Work Look
Expect
Filtered
Singer
Madonna
Overnight
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Doing things in my day was simple: you either signed to a big label or you signed to a very small label, and you worked with that one, and then they eventually signed you on to a big one.
Rick Astley / Singer-Songwriter
Big One
Either
Small
Label
Signed
Worked
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I don't trust politicians. I think that by the time they've made it, with the concessions they've had to make in that position, I don't believe they still have the beliefs they had at the root.
Rick Astley / Singer-Songwriter
Trust
Believe
Made
Position
Roots
Thinking
Had
Make
Beliefs
By The Time
Politicians
Still
Root
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When I was still at school, I'd help Dad at the concrete yard he had prior to the garden centre. I was doing things there, like driving the tractors and forklifts, that most kids my age couldn't.
Rick Astley / Singer-Songwriter
Kids
Dad
Centre
Concrete
Driving
Garden
School
Prior
Yard
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'Never Gonna Give You Up' in 1987 was a huge international hit followed by several more, and while I appreciated how lucky I was, it catapulted me into a completely new world and simply took over my life.
Rick Astley / Singer-Songwriter
Appreciated
Giving
Huge
International
Lucky
New World
World
Life World Me
Hit
Simply
Followed
Gonna
My Life
Several
Took
While
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When our daughter was born, a light went on for me - there was more to life than what I was doing. It felt like being famous for being a paint salesman. It wasn't the dream I was sold on. I'd had enough of it.
Rick Astley / Singer-Songwriter
Being Famous
Had Enough
Paint
Salesman
Sold
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It's very hard to behave naturally when you know people recognise you. On the other hand, I still sometimes get upgraded in hotels because someone used to like me back in the day, which is still pretty amazing.
Rick Astley / Singer-Songwriter
Behave
Recognise
Naturally
Hotels
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Working as a teaboy may have helped my confidence, but not everyone else was so pleased. I could never remember who had milk or how many sugars, and I had an unusual talent for spilling tea on the recording console.
Rick Astley / Singer-Songwriter
Confidence
Console
May
Milk
Spilling
Sugar
Talent
Tea
Unusual
Everyone Else
Helped
Pleased
Recording
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I think Phil Collins is one of the most underrated musicians, singers, performers - he is absolutely amazing, I think, and I think he's probably got a bit of a rough ride occasionally because he became so mainstream and so popular.
Rick Astley / Singer-Songwriter
Mainstream
Musician
Performers
Rough
Singers
Thinking
Collins
Occasionally
Phil
Phil Collins
Ride
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My dad loved Scotland, so we would pile into his caravan and head for the Highlands, to Fort William and Loch Ness. It was such an adventure - my siblings and I were allowed to roam and explore the local beaches. We loved the freedom of those trips.
Rick Astley / Singer-Songwriter
Dad
Adventure
Beach
Scotland
Sibling
Beaches
Caravan
Explore
Fort
William
Pile
Roam
Trips
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I like everything in this iPhone, iPod world where you can do everything all the time. Back in my time, you bought a vinyl record when you were a kid and took it home, and it took a bit of effort to actually get it out of the thing and not scratch it.
Rick Astley / Singer-Songwriter
Kids
Home
Effort
Iphone
My Time
Vinyl
Time Home World
Bit
Bought
Record
Ipod
Scratch
Took
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I was the youngest of four kids, and Dad, who had a garden centre before he retired, came from a large Lancashire family. Every one of my uncles had their own business, including a post office, two fish and chip shops and a painting and decorating business.
Rick Astley / Singer-Songwriter
Kids
Uncles
Dad
Centre
Decorating
Garden
Including
Office
Painting
Post Office
Retired
Shops
Family Business Dad
Fish
Chip
Large
Post
Youngest
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Fame is not just about being able to get out of a limo in Leicester Square, it's about trying to get into your house when there are eight photographers outside. When you think about being famous, you don't think about all that stuff. You think about the glamour.
Rick Astley / Singer-Songwriter
Eight
Squares
Thinking
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I've done drives through Budapest and Oslo and used to drive to Sardinia, too, which is quite a journey. Drives are an adventure because I don't plan them too carefully. I take detours depending on how I feel and usually stop and stay at places I like the look of.
Rick Astley / Singer-Songwriter
Journey
Adventure
Budapest
Detours
Oslo
Carefully
Depending
Drives
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My success set me up for life, and it meant that I could retire from the music industry at 27 to spend time with my newborn daughter and my wife. My time away from the spotlight allowed me to rediscover my love for music, and I'm doing it for me now and no one else.
Rick Astley / Singer-Songwriter
Daughter
Industry
Music Industry
My Time
Newborn
Spotlight
Life Love Success
Allowed
Meant
Retire
Set
Spend
Rediscover
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I've been to Sardinia about 10 times because my wife, my daughter and I used to go every year with another family. We rented the same house each time in Villasimius in the southern part of the island, and always went to the same two beaches and same three restaurants.
Rick Astley / Singer-Songwriter
Restaurants
Southern
Time Family Always
Beaches
Each Time
Island
Family Time Wife
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I was just burnt out. I didn't like the music business and I didn't like me. There's an element of falseness about the whole thing. Even things like doing an interview. It's not as though we just met in the pub and are having a chat - it's part of a process. If you do it all day, every day for years, you end up thinking: 'Who the hell am I?' I was lucky enough to make some money, enough to let me kick back. It was a great experience and it was nice to have a couple of No.1s but the best thing about it was that the money I made allowed me to have freedom and choice in my life.
Rick Astley / Singer-Songwriter
Couple
Nice
Thinking
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