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.
From Rick Astley
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.
I do have a thing for eating out; that's one of life's great middle-age pleasures.
I don't get recognised until I'm on stage, and then I can walk off and forget about it. It's great.
I'd been bumming around in bands since my school days.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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