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Eighties icon Rick Astley opens up on his secret feud with 'naff' Neighbours singer Kylie Minogue
Eighties icon Rick Astley reveals his secret, decades-old jealousy of Kylie Minogue in new book: 'It's not as if she's going to make a career out of being a singer.'
The blue-eyed soul singer resented being put in the same musical basket as a young Kylie Minogue - who was at the time most famous for her role as Charlene Robinson on Neighbours. On New Year’s Day 1987, a 19-year-old named Rick Astley recorded the song that would change — and finance — the rest of his life: the effervescent, synthesised ’80s classic Never Gonna Give You Up. Both Rick and Kylie were signed to English songwriting and producing trio Stock Aitken Waterman (SAW), the British pop factory responsible for more than 100 top 40 hits in the UK alone.
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