The one with Rick Astley
The Chris Evans Show
Virgin Radio UK
4.5 • 695 Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Rick-rolling legend Rick Astley tells tales from his autobiography Never, out now!
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| 0:29.7 | Our next guest is the Glastonbury Slaying Carfest Conquering Billion View Superstar |
| 0:35.9 | who's going to give you up never, let let you down, never, and write a book, Never. His new book, Never, is out today and he's about to go on tour. So let's give a great big tick for the Always Slick. Never miss a trick. Rick Asley! All right, let's hear of Rick Asley. Come on, get that door open. Come on. |
| 0:55.0 | All right, thank you. |
| 0:56.0 | Thank you. Great book. Thank you, my love. Great, great book. Honestly, amazing. Proper, proper book. This is a great book. Everybody's called Neverts Saturday. You've got to read it. You've got to read this book for so many different reasons. Question number one, Rick Astley. |
| 0:51.1 | Okay. |
| 0:51.8 | How did you do that thing |
| 0:53.2 | with the basketballs in 1988? |
| 0:54.9 | Wait. |
| 0:56.0 | Yeah, no, it's funny. Going back over this and trying to remember things, I've had to speak to friends, I'd speak to my ex-manager, Tops as well, because he's got a better memory than me. Because you only ever drank Coca-Cola, didn't he? Exactly, yeah, yeah, he never had drink in his life and yeah when I've gone through things like that where we you know |
| 1:11.0 | basically took an old pretty Because you only ever drank Coca-Cola, didn't he? Exactly, yeah, yeah, he never had a drink in his life. And, yeah, when I've gone through things like that, |
| 1:29.5 | where we, you know, basically took an old projector on stage with us, took it right around the world, like a film projector, you'd have in a cinema and everything. And some of the shows that you do today and some of the big festivals, you turn up and you see the technology, and you kind of think, oh my god you know it's like the world has literally changed so much since i started and what have you |
| 1:27.9 | it's been it's been a bit of a freaky thing to do to |
| 1:48.2 | be honest to go through it and have some of those you know relive them memories kind of thing that was |
| 1:51.6 | a proper moment wasn't it that's cool wasn't it yeah a bit of stagecraft going on totally it's like |
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