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About Rick Astley
With his rich, deep voice, Rick Astley became an overnight sensation in the late '80s with his well-crafted dance-pop. Astley was discovered by the producer Pete Waterman in 1985 singing in the English soul band FBI. After that, Waterman's production team -- Stock, Aitken & Waterman -- took Astley under their wing, writing and producing such impeccably crafted pop singles as "Never Gonna Give You Up" and "Together Forever." After two hugely successful albums in the U.S. and the U.K., Astley grew tired of being labeled Stock, Aitken & Waterman's "puppet" and severed his connections with the team; he resurfaced in 1991 with the soul-injected Free, which contained the Top Ten hit, "Cry for Help." ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide
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Rick Astley's Discography (12)
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Together Forever |
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Ultimate Collection | Sony BMG Mus... |
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Portrait | Sony BMG Mus... |
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The Best Of Rick Astley | BMG UK & Ire... |
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Greatest Hits | BMG UK & Ire... |
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Compilations Featuring Rick Astley (20)
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FriendsReunited.co.uk: 42 Classroom Clas... | Universal Mu... |
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FriendsReunited.Co.Uk: 42 Classroom Clas... | Universal Mu... |
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The 80's Maxi-Versionen | Warner Music |
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The Ultimate Cheeky Party Album: 50 Trac... | BMG |
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Unchained Melodies: 39 timeless classics... | BMG |
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Love Lockdown KanYe West |
| KanYe West keeps on challenging the limits of hip-hop: if "Graduation" was his pop album, the first single from "808s and Heartaches" sees the star going all soulful and expanding the most spiritual side of former highlights such as "Jesus Walk" or "Can't Tell me Nothing". Arguably the first interactive recording ever made, thanks to the KanYe's official blog; when the original mix was posted, many fans reacted sending an avalanche of negative feedback; maybe it was the use of popular pitch-altering software autotune, abused in recent times by everyone from Cher to T-Pain, that led the audience to revolt and ended up with the notorious perfectionist re-recording the vocals and adding some taiko drums to highlight its minimal beat, imitating a heart pounding; posting it again afterwards for general approval. Not happy with that, he later went the Radiohead way, making six different stems (vocals, drums, piano, etc.) available for fans to remix the song themselves. "Love Lockdown" can be seen as West upgrading himself from rapper to proper soul singer and is one of his more inspired and powerful moments to date. A mind-blowing closing performance at this year's VMAs ignited a chart frenzy all over the world and it looks set to last for a few months. | |
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