Albert Hall, ManchesterWith quiff, microphone twirls and in-ear monitors resembling hearing aids, 55-year-old Astley makes an an eerily good MorrisseyThe idea of the 80s Stock, Aitken and Waterman hitmaker “performing the songs of the Smiths” with Stoc…
Rick Astley on his Smiths covers gigs: ‘I’ll use a karaoke machine if I have to’
Ahead of his two Morrissey-channelling gigs with Blossoms, the singer talks Twitter, his London pub and how he once followed Andy Rourke around the Arndale centreLast Monday, Rick Astley (as in 80s, bequiffed, Never Gonna Give You Up Rick Astley) made …