Rick Astley

Join Up Dots - Business Coaching Made Easy (With A Bit Of Life Coaching Too)

David Ralph of Join Up Dots

Interview, Motivation, Online, Businessinterview, Education, Businesscoaching, Entrepreneur, Lifestyle, Income, Business

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🗓️ 20 June 2016

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Todays episode of Join Up Dots brings to you a story of entrepreneurial success and persistence. Pop star Rick Astley has returned to the top of the UK album chart after a gap of 29 years. The singer's comeback album, 50, beat new releases by Tom Odell and Paul McCartney to reach number one. "It's amazing, it's incredible," said Astley. "It's been a very, very, very long time." The star first found fame in the 1980s as part of the Stock, Aitken, Waterman hit factory - but his new material presents a more mature, soulful sound. He was engaged in a battle for the number one slot over the last week, changing places with Tom Odell on several occasions. In the end, he outsold the Chichester-born singer by just 3,700 copies. According to the Official Chart Company, Astley sold more physical CDs, while Odell secured more digital sales and streams. "I like Tom Odell," Astley said. "I bought his last album, and I'm going to buy this one as well, but I've held off from buying it this week!" Astley last topped the chart in 1987, three years before Odell was born, with his debut album Never Gonna Give You Up. The star said he'd enjoyed the support of pop royalty in his quest for the top slot this week. "Elton John's sent a few texts over the last couple of days and just called me now to celebrate and said 'just make sure you enjoy it.' "He's one of those people I've always respected... so it was a nice moment to get that congratulations."

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0:00.0	When we're young we have an amazing positive outlook about how great life is going to be
0:05.2	but somewhere along the line we forget to dream and end up settling. Join up dots
0:10.0	features amazing people who refuse to give up and chose to go after their dreams.
0:15.0	This is your blueprint for greatness.
0:18.0	So here's your host, live from the back of his garden in the UK, David Ralph.
0:23.2	Yes, hello there everybody, hello there and welcome to join up dots.
0:31.2	This is going to be a bit of a different episode than normal. I felt, do you know, I felt like I haven't spoken to you one on one for quite a while. I think it must be a month or so two months? It might be even longer than that.
0:42.9	Who knows?
0:43.8	So today's episode is just going to be you and me,
0:47.0	getting intimate, getting down, maybe getting sexy.
0:50.2	Who knows?
0:50.9	Who knows what's gonna happen?
0:52.3	But I wanted to talk today about something that happened on Friday night.
0:57.5	Now this is Monday just a couple of days ago. Some of you in the United Kingdom might know about this and across the world you
1:04.2	probably don't but something remarkable happened yes I can tell you that
1:10.6	Rick Ashley the Meister of the 80s, some people say the 80s, but people like myself who love
1:17.6	his music and love the man himself will say that he's timeless, he's ageless, he did something that so many people didn't expect.
1:25.8	And he has got back to number one, yes, he has got back to number one on the UK album charts with his new album 15.
1:35.0	Now, some of you might be going, who?
1:38.0	Who's Rick Ashley?
1:39.0	I've got no idea who this man is.
1:41.0	So let me give you a little burst, or one of his songs you'll probably
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