Who is rick astley married to

The pair met when Lene was working as a promoter with RCA in Rick Astley released a new single and album titled Beautiful Life in the summer of I was tinkering about with bits and pieces and before you know it, I was making a new record. See more Must Read on Smooth. See more Latest Features. Ed Sheeran.

And on Every Corner , Rick reveals the secret of their year relationship: " I know the way to keep you is in the way I treat you. It's the respect we show each other and the moments of love that are what we're about. Beautiful Life was released last month and followed its predecessor into the top It didn't quite hit number one, held at bay by Drake and Mamma Mia! You've got to have a lot of luck, a fair wind behind you, and all the rest of it.

More important was proving "that 50 wasn't a fluke", so he turned down offers from big name producers and recorded the album at home, playing every instrument by himself. Modest to a fault, he downplays his abilities, saying he has to "sit down and work out" every riff before he can play it.

But play drums for half an hour and you feel like a different person. Last year, Rick got the opportunity to perform alongside two of his drumming idols - Dave Grohl and Taylor Hawkins - when Foo Fighters pulled him up on stage at Japan's Summer Sonic festival.

But what a lovely bunch of guys. My God, they were amazing," he says. He'd never met the Foos before the festival - but they grabbed the opportunity to Rickroll their audience by playing the opening chords to Smells Like Teen Spirit, before breaking into Never Gonna Give You Up.

He was equally impressed by the band's relaxed attitude to fame. You sense that "being normal" is important to Astley, who deflects any questions about his achievements with self-deprecating humour. He has no regrets about being a stay-at-home dad, and talks with pride about his daughter's world-wise attitude "they're the first generation that aren't en masse motivated by money and celebrity," he says of Emilie and her friends.

What eventually returned him to the charts was the simple love of music. On the closing track of Beautiful Life, he recalls listening "to the stereo under the covers of my bed", in Newton-Le-Willows, Lancashire - absorbing everything from prog rock bands Magma and Camel to inch remixes by New Order and the Thompson Twins, eventually finding a path through to pop. She learnt to drive and found a new career after finishing up in an office job.

She had a new group of friends and this world became her life and she loved it. She did it for 20 years and only stopped around 12 years ago. My sister, Jane, is 10 years older than me. She became a mother figure in the home. She took me to my first gig when I was My first kiss was at around 10 with a girl called Diane at primary school.

She was a woman in charge, tough and sexy — it was quite the revelation. I met my wife in I fell in love with her the day I met her. I met my wife, Lene Bausager , in She was working in marketing at my record label in Denmark. I did get to see her briefly again a few weeks later in London, then a year after that over a cup of tea while on tour in Denmark. When I got back from a Japan tour , we officially started dating. That was in the spring of We married in and have a daughter, Emilie, who lives in Denmark.

I like strong women , and Lene is certainly that. My upbringing was unusual and I probably craved having a mother figure, but I am not saying Lene is that for me.