The album is Astley's first of new music since Beautiful Life (2018). It peaked at number two on the UK Albums Chart.

We went to Nashville and there was music on every corner—Nashville just seems to live and breathe it a little more. ‘Golden Hour’ isn’t country exactly, but it’s definitely leaning on that and on that songwriting thing of trying to be as simple as possible. Some of the lyrics refer to my wife and I. We’ve known each other since 1987 and she manages me, so we work together. We travelled on buses around America for three months, and we realised that we are in a golden hour in the sense of age as well. You can be in a golden hour when you’re 20, but we also feel we’re getting on a bit and we have to enjoy this, because I don’t know how long anybody’s going to let me in a venue and sing anymore. We’re in a golden hour together as well because we’re still together after all these years. It’s pretty special.” For "Can You Feel the Love Tonight": "irishcharts.com – Elton John – Can You Feel The Love Tonight". The second song in your Glastonbury solo set, 2016 ’s Keep Singing , talked about your tough childhood [Astley’s parents divorced when he was five ; he then lived with his father but estranged himself from him as an adult ]. How do you handle those memories?The southern soul of ‘Dippin’ My Feet’ and the sweaty, brass-driven ‘Maria Love’ are a million miles away from the shiny synth-driven pop he made his name with. ‘Never Gonna Stop’ and ‘Waterfall’ (not a Stone Roses cover, sadly) see him employing a gospel groove, while the closing ‘Blue Sky’ adds some Americana to proceedings, the former pin-up sounding world-weary, as he admits, “I’m a man of steel and rust, my concrete heart is crumbling to dust”. The ARIA Report: Week Commencing 23 October 2023". The ARIA Report. No.1755. Australian Recording Industry Association. 23 October 2023. p.10. Can You Feel the Love Tonight" (ARIA) peak: "australian-charts.com – Elton John – Can You Feel The Love Tonight".

My wife does drive me absolutely crazy and vice versa, but she drives me crazy in every sense of the word. There’s a line in the song that says something like, ‘Sometimes I question why we’re here,’ and it says, ‘Just holding your hand takes away my fears.’ We have that [kind of] relationship. Like Glastonbury, which I never thought was ever going to happen, I thought that was a dream long gone, but we did that this summer [in 2023]—I was holding hands with my wife as I walked up to the stage.” The internet can be very brutal for younger artists, but it can also be an amazing tool, where you can post something intimate, from the horse’s mouth, without gatekeepers. Then again, I heard Warners are releasing an AI pop singer, so for some kinds of music it’s probably already over. But at the end of the day we need to be around human beings. I don’t think we’ll ever lose that.

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The second single " Never Gonna Stop" was released on 22 August 2023. Astley revealed that he wrote the song after reading an article about artificial intelligence. [8] "Never Gonna Stop" spent several weeks on the UK Singles Sales Chart and peaked at number 49. [7] The video was filmed by his wife on a mobile phone on a beach in Denmark, with Astley stating it was done "on a shoestring" as they "had run out of time to make a video" because he had been ill. [9] Top 100 ( Australian Music Report) peaks to 12 June 1988: Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (Illustrateded.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. pp.20–21. ISBN 0-646-11917-6. N.B. The Kent/Australian Music Report was licensed by ARIA between mid-1983 and 12 June 1988.

Selected items are only available for delivery via the Royal Mail 48® service and other items are available for delivery using this service for a charge. His fifth studio album, Keep It Turned On, was released in December 2001. The album peaked at number 56 on the German Albums Chart. Two singles were released from the album " Sleeping" and " Keep It Turned On". " Sleeping" peaked at No. 60 in Germany and No. 69 in Switzerland. Respect. I’ve seen friends who’ve lost that, and without it you’re screwed. Obviously I still fancy Lene, but I think the truth and reality of it is I’ve got such respect for who she is as a person. Everything else comes second.What’s really amazing, after a couple solid decades of Morrissey popping off the worst possible takes about immigration and Brexit and more, is hearing those classic songs being sung by someone likable. Astley is more diplomatic: “It's a well turned phrase, but you have to separate the art from the artist. A lot of the great painters were not the nicest people in the world. Sometimes you just have to say what they produced was amazing, but I just don't want to know anything about their politics or their feelings about humanity because that's something else.” Still, going forward, I will gladly take my Smiths without the Morrissey, thank you. We went to Nashville and there was music on every corner—Nashville just seems to live and breathe it a little more. ‘Golden Hour’ isn’t country exactly, but it’s definitely leaning on that and on that songwriting thing of trying to be as simple as possible. Some of the lyrics refer to my wife and I. We’ve known each other since 1987 and she manages me, so we work together. We traveled on buses around America for three months, and we realized that we are in a golden hour in the sense of age as well. You can be in a golden hour when you’re 20, but we also feel we’re getting on a bit and we have to enjoy this, because I don’t know how long anybody’s going to let me in a venue and sing anymore. We’re in a golden hour together as well because we’re still together after all these years. It’s pretty special.” Your wife, Lene Bausager , is Danish, and you’ve been together since 198 9. What’s the secret of a long relationship? Sometimes I’ll write a certain line in a song that may have a slight political undertone and sometimes I just want to write one that’s like, ‘You know what? We’ve just got to fall in love with each other and the answer to that is letting go.’ A friend of mine was asking me about lyrics the other day and I was saying, ‘To be honest, half the time I don’t know what they’re about. It’s just shit that comes out while you’re noodling and playing, and sometimes it just feels right and becomes part of the song.’ But the essence of this is it’s about letting go. It’s quite up and quite light, and it’s not a serious song in any way. There’s a tiny bit of Fleetwood Mac in there, just because I heard tons of Fleetwood Mac when we were in America last summer.”