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The High Performance Podcast · 2025-10-06 · 78 min · 17,211 words

Rick Astley's Story: The Trauma That Forced Me On Stage (E373)

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It's bought every house. It bought my mum's house. If you cut me open like a stick of rock, it says never gonna give you up in the middle. That's just what it does. My dad just lost it.

He was getting ready to hit me again then. The next eldest brother, he came out of said Porter Cavern with a great big eight-inch bread knife. I'm most proud of our daughter. Yeah, that's what I'm most proud of. The music's a nonsense.

It's a lovely nonsense, but it's a nonsense. That is the voice of Rick Astley, the man behind one of the most iconic pop songs ever made. Look, we all know that, but this episode is about the things that you don't know about Rick Astley. You know, um, we have a a WhatsApp group where we talk about guests that are coming onto the show, and I thought I got the sense you were really excited about having Rick in the studio. Well there was, I

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