Rick Astley gives honest take on ‘Never Gonna Give You Up’

Rick Astley says ‘Never Gonna Give You Up’ is part of him as he wins Silver Clef award.Credit: The Independent

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00:00That song is a bit of an oddball, because obviously it was my first song.

00:05It's been downhill ever since, because it was my biggest song.

00:09It's just, it's really difficult to put it into words,

00:13because it's been part of my kind of DNA of my life,

00:17but also my family's, a lot of my friends.

00:21It's sort of been there for most of my life,

00:24because I'm going to be 60 next year, on my word,

00:27and it was released when I was 21.

00:28So it's been there for, like, two-thirds,

00:31it's been there for pretty much all my adult life,

00:33and so it's just sort of ingrained in me.

00:35If you cut me open, it says never going to give you up in the middle.

00:38And it's like, it's really hard sometimes to put that into any kind of sense.

00:44I just feel grateful.

00:46I just feel lucky that I've got a tune that every now and again pops up somewhere,

00:50therefore we've got a billion streams, you know.

00:53And again, I think it makes me look at the time that I had my moment when I started,

00:58and just think, I'm kind of super grateful that I am the age I am,

01:03and I started in the 80s, because we didn't have social media,

01:06we didn't even have the internet.

01:07And I think things were a little bit softer and fuzzier back then.