Last month, Rick Astley released his new greatest hits The Best Of Me via BMG – a project that includes reimagined versions of classics like Never Gonna Give You Up. Here the singer reflects on songwriting, his incredible career resurgence and playing with the Foo Fighters. Rick‘n’roll dreams do come true...

Re-recording my old songs…

“Just made me realise how good the Stock Aitken Waterman songwriting was. There are people out there who hate those songs, I understand that, but ...