Rick Astley

Its really come to something that to see a big group of white people is some sort of terrible, shocking and criticism worthy thing

Whats that about?

Why shocked; there's plenty of black acts that attract mainly black audience and vice versa. You could say why aren't there more council estate residents supporting Opera. It's assuming some sort of racist overtone. If you want a deeper dive, Rick Astley is not considered "cool" to black people young or old. Probably not that much appreciated by young white either, it's a white Mums and Dad's thing, hence lack of diversity. Sure Rick or anyone else would love an across the board fanbase. It's not a thing with alot of artists, so so what. There's plenty of examples of racism without looking for it where it ain't there!! Lol

Why shocked; there's plenty of black acts that attract mainly black audience and vice versa. You could say why aren't there more council estate residents supporting Opera. It's assuming some sort of racist overtone. If you want a deeper dive, Rick Astley is not considered "cool" to black people young or old. Probably not that much appreciated by young white either, it's a white Mums and Dad's thing, hence lack of diversity. Sure Rick or anyone else would love an across the board fanbase. It's not a thing with alot of artists, so so what. There's plenty of examples of racism without looking for it where it ain't there!! False alerts don't do any favours (in fact they do alot of harm because they go some way to justifying the term "woke" even to non DM readers); to those wishing to highlight ACTUAL racism.

You're right, @StockpotSoup in 1985 Rick Astley was an unknown drummer in a band. His first single was released in 1987. It achieved moderate success. Then came Never Gonna...

That’s exactly why he was so brilliant at Glastonbury. He was clearly thrilled to be there, didn’t take himself seriously and was having the time of his life.

All these race goading threads are tiresome .
Unless you can prove black people were prevented from buying tickets or entry to see him it's a complete non story .
I would think RA's complete demographic are white middle age people , it's who he appeals to .

Well, there was a local hospital called the Astley Ainsley and there was a lampoon of him in the student Christmas panto using that name so SOMEONE must have heard of him.

Those wannabe Amy Whinehouse singers just awful.

I was switching over between him and Jools and the music on Jools was dire except for the Irish band who had a bit of life in them as all the other bands were all jazz and annoying as fuck, Rick is still able to sing live and loved when he did his last song the disco stuff and those two black girls were amazing and sang their hearts out and were great but Rod Stewart and was awful and most of the artists on Jools were just awful

82% of people according to 2021 census in england and wales are white op.

This is really not something that needs to be diverse.

i didnt like Rick in 1987, i was 22
i turned off jools holland - same as every year, same guests, and ruby turner, not liking rod stewart
i really enjoyed rick astley, he is just great

Nurse! We’ve got an offended one here. Says too many middle aged white people at a Rick Astley concert. Call the cops and get Dawn Butler on the blower, ask her for her opinion.

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What did you want them to do, for an 80's singer whose demographics is probably (now) middle aged white people? Round up some diversity and sprinkle it through the audience to make a point? As others have said- different artists will have different demographics- so we need to do the same with diverse audiences and sprinkle a bit of white hetero through them?

Me too 😆

You must have been psychic - he didn’t have a hit until 1987.

Some people agreed with the OP, so can someone explain what they would like to happen, to avoid a predominantly white, middle-aged crowd?

Do you think that people of other age groups and ethnicities wanted to see Rick Astley in concert, but were hindered from buying tickets? One post on page 1 speculated whether the tickets hadn't been advertised widely enough, so presumably one person thinks he has a wider fanbase than white, middle-aged people, but the other fans weren't there to see him.

Anyone else also think that's the problem?

Alternatively, do posters believe that the audience did reflect the demographic of his fanbase? Is the problem that you think the BBC should have booked someone with greater cross-generational appeal for the NYE concert?

I'm not a fan and I don't think it is fair of you to criticise people who are not white and middle aged for not going to his show.

What is this absolute shite?

I bet any money you're actually white and middle-aged yourself!!

Stop pretending to be offended on other people's behalf!!

You're toe-curlingly embarrassing!!

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Oh FFS!!!

Can we just stop with this once and for all!!

White middle aged people are Rick Astley's core demographic. End of!!

oops typo mistake not * developed enough

Have you ever thought black audiences could just have much better taste ear for music and just avoided his singing nasally which is mistaken 🤔 for music

He wasn't that good even back in his so called Hay day of 80s,

it was just back then it was era od electronics music ect and teens ear for selection has developed enough.😉

Are you suggesting black people were stopped from obtaining tickets?