{"id":36502,"date":"2018-06-01T12:08:48","date_gmt":"2018-06-01T11:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=36502"},"modified":"2018-06-01T12:08:48","modified_gmt":"2018-06-01T11:08:48","slug":"rick-astley-announces-new-album-beautiful-life-and-massive-uk-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2018\/06\/rick-astley-announces-new-album-beautiful-life-and-massive-uk-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Rick Astley Announces New Album &#8216;Beautiful Life&#8217; And Massive UK Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_36503\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36503\" style=\"width: 759px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"36503\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2018\/06\/rick-astley-announces-new-album-beautiful-life-and-massive-uk-tour\/rick-astley-credit-rankin\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Rick-Astley-credit-Rankin.jpg?fit=6732%2C8984&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"6732,8984\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;16&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;IQ260&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1522262577&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;50&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0028571450592663&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Rick Astley &amp;#8211; credit Rankin\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Rick-Astley-credit-Rankin.jpg?fit=640%2C854&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-36503\" title=\"Rick Astley - photo credit Rankin\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Rick-Astley-credit-Rankin.jpg?resize=640%2C854&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Rick Astley - photo credit Rankin\" width=\"640\" height=\"854\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-36503\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rick Astley &#8211; photo credit Rankin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Two years ago Rick Astley returned with an album that surprised everyone, even himself. His number 1 album \u201850\u2019 sold over 300,000 copies and was one of the biggest selling albums of 2016. What was even more incredible was that Rick wrote, produced and played every instrument on that comeback disc.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Astley has done it again, with new album, \u2018Beautiful Life\u2019, set for release on July 20th through BMG with an iconic cover shot by Rankin. Each of the twelve tracks are written, produced and played by Rick. Among the highlights include the Chic-flavored title track, the evocative \u2018Rise Up\u2019, the insanely catchy \u2018Try\u2019 and the warm childhood memories of \u2018The Good Old Days\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- Random Ad stuff --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2076862002005673\" data-ad-slot=\"3107208401\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><\/p>\n<p><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After selling over 100,000 tickets on his 2017 tour, Rick and his band play the following UK dates, joined by very special guest Gabrielle \u2013 tickets go on sale Friday June 8th.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>October<\/strong><br \/>\nThu 25th Glasgow, SEC Armadillo<br \/>\nFri 26th Hull, Hull Venue<br \/>\nSat 27th Manchester, Manchester Arena<br \/>\nMon 29th Gateshead, Gateshead Sage<br \/>\nTue 30th Gateshead, Gateshead Sage<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>November<\/strong><br \/>\nThu 1st Plymouth, Plymouth Pavilions<br \/>\nFri 2nd Cardiff, Cardiff Motorpoint Arena<br \/>\nSat 3rd Brighton, Brighton Centre<br \/>\nMon 5th Southend, Southend Cliffs Pavilion<br \/>\nTue 6th Cambridge, Cambridge Corn Exchange<br \/>\nThu 8th London, London Eventim Apollo<br \/>\nFri 9th London, London Eventim Apollo<br \/>\nSat 10th Bournemouth, International Centre<br \/>\nMon 12th Nottingham, Nottingham Royal Concert Hall<br \/>\nTue 13th Nottingham, Nottingham Royal Concert Hall<br \/>\nThu 15th Birmingham, Birmingham Genting Arena<br \/>\nFri 16th Leeds, Leeds First Direct Arena<br \/>\nSat 17th Liverpool, Liverpool Echo Arena<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rickastley.tmstor.es\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pre-order &#8216;Beautiful Life&#8217; for 48-hour ticket pre-sale access to Rick\u2019s forthcoming UK tour<\/a>.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Your unique ticket pre-sale code and link will be sent to you from 16:00 GMT on Tuesday 5th of June 2018. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two years ago Rick Astley returned with an album that surprised everyone, even himself. His number 1 album \u201850\u2019 sold over 300,000 copies and was one of the biggest selling albums of 2016. What was even more incredible was that Rick wrote, produced and played every instrument on that comeback disc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,14583,144,4798,14584,3956,103,840],"class_list":["post-36502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-releases","tag-album","tag-beautiful-life","tag-new-album","tag-new-tour","tag-presale","tag-rick-astley","tag-tour","tag-uk-tour"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yMhl-9uK","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":36650,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2018\/06\/rick-astley-reveals-title-track-from-forthcoming-album-beautiful-life\/","url_meta":{"origin":36502,"position":0},"title":"Rick Astley Reveals Title Track From Forthcoming Album &#8216;Beautiful Life&#8217;","author":"Essentially Pop","date":"05\/06\/2018","format":false,"excerpt":"\u2018Beautiful Life\u2019, the first new Rick Astley single and the title track of his forthcoming album, is the sound of the summer. 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