Born in Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire in 1966, musician Rick Astley started his career at the music production company Stock Aitken Waterman. His 1987 debut album, Whenever You Need Somebody, sold 15.2m copies worldwide and made him a household name. Since then he has gone on to release eight studio albums, selling over 40 million records worldwide, and played and toured around the world multiple times, including, in 2024, a sell-out UK arena tour. Never is his first and only official autobiography.

"You wouldn't get this from any other guy. This nuanced memoir is not your standard pop star autobiography" --i

"Straight-talking yet frequently astonishing memoir" --The Times

"A book as idiosyncratic as it is nostalgic" --Observer

"A lovely portrait of a man who became one of Britain's most beloved pop stars, despite a brutally difficult upbringing" --Hadley Freeman, The Sunday Times

Publisher: Pan Publishing

Pub date: 2026-01-13

Length: 304 pages