Rick Astley To RickRoll In 2008

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The Manshester Evening News reports that Rick Astley is going to tour this year! He'd be smart to make an Anonymous appearance...

"Every year he's asked me and I've always said no because it's a little bit like going backwards," says Astley, who was born in Warrington and raised in Newton-le-Willows. "But then I thought, I'm 42 now and there's going to come a year when he doesn't ask me to do it, and I'll probably regret that. So I'm going to do a few this year, and I may never do any again."

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The LA Times talks to Rick Astley about his new found fame - here is what he had to say:

“I think it’s just one of those odd things where something gets picked up and people run with it,” Astley said. “But that’s what brilliant about the Internet.”

Saying he thought "Anonymous" Rickrolling Scientology was "hilarious."

Astley would never put the song down, mind you. It’s just that, as he says, “If I was a young kid now looking at that song, I’d have to say I’d think it was pretty naff, really.” (Wikipedia on “naff”: British slang for “something which is seen to be particularly ‘cheesy’ or ‘tacky’ or in otherwise poor aesthetic taste.”) “

Astley, who will be touring the U.K. in May with a group of other ’80’s acts, including Bananarama, and Nick Heyward, Heaven 17, Paul Young and ABC, sums up his thoughts on his unexpected virtual fame with characteristic good humor:

“Listen, I just think it’s bizarre and funny. My main consideration is that my daughter doesn’t get embarrassed about it.”

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