Rick Astley

It's hard to take Rick Astley's musical emancipation seriously. Free, his third album and the
first one recorded outside what his promotional bio calls "the Stock Aitken Waterman
production compound" (i.e., the team that gave him back-to-back Number One disco hits in
1987), features a new Rick who has literally and figuratively let his pompadour down.
Leaving Stock Aitken's stock rhythms behind in favor of middle-of-the-road pop,... More >