Rick Astley review – 80s icon returns unfeasibly intact

The Lowry, Salford
It got a little cruise-ship revue at times, but there was something touching about the bequiffed pop hunk’s rapport with the Stock Aitken Watermen faithfulWith his trademark quiff, 1987 chart topper Never Gonna Give You Up and ubiquitous Stock Aitken Waterman (SAW) production, Rick Astley was one of the most loved and loathed pop phenomenons of the late 80s. Then he jacked it all in after a tearful episode on the M4. In recent years, there has been a short-lived reinvent