British heartthrob singer Rick Astley always sang that he was ‘never gonna to give us up’ but we never expected that after 23 years in the musical wilderness he would make a comeback album that would give him another No 1 Hit in the UK again after all these years. With a tongue-in-cheek nod to Adele who always names her albums after her age, Astley calls his ’50’ and it is full of original work. Two of the tracks are available in the US on Itunes (“Keep Singing” and “Angels On My Side”) but following his unexpected success in his home country, the new (really rather good) album will now be released here in October.
