Do we all dream enough? Do we search for that bar that’s a bit further up? Did you reach high enough? Again, it’s reflective of my own life a little bit. As my manager and also as my wife, my wife is more confident about my stuff than me and probably pushes it more than I do. We’ll get an offer to do something and I’ll go, ‘I don’t know about that,’ and she’ll say, ‘I know you can and it’s going to work out, it’ll be great.’ But it doesn’t have to be about my career, it can be about anything in life. It’s just that thing: ‘Did we actually really go for it?’” His eighth studio album, Beautiful Life, was released in July 2018. The album peaked at number 6 on the UK Albums Chart, becoming Astley's fifth top ten album in the United Kingdom. The album includes the singles " Beautiful Life" and "Empty Heart". Your wife, Lene Bausager , is Danish, and you’ve been together since 198 9. What’s the secret of a long relationship? For "Can You Feel the Love Tonight": "swedishcharts.com – Elton John – Can You Feel The Love Tonight".

Hold Me in Your Arms" (single) (ARIA) peak: "Chartifacts – Week Ending: 10 February 1991 (from The ARIA Report Issue No. 55)". ARIA . Retrieved 21 April 2016– via Imgur.com. [ bettersourceneeded] 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.” For "Can You Feel the Love Tonight": "irishcharts.com – Elton John – Can You Feel The Love Tonight".

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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”. 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. For "Can You Feel the Love Tonight": "Elton John – Can You Feel The Love Tonight". offiziellecharts.de. The ARIA Australian Top 100 Albums Chart – 1989 (61–100) (from The ARIA Report Issue No. 1)". ARIA . Retrieved 15 December 2016– via Imgur.com. The album was inspired by the soul music of Marvin Gaye, Al Green and Bill Withers, [1] and recorded at the Astley's home studio in London. [4] Astley stated that he believed "spending five months in America" on tour there in 2022 "retuned [his] ear a little bit" in regards to his guitar playing. [5] Singles [ edit ]

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. I’m a bit of a snob with wine these days. Not super-expensive stuff – only at Christmas or something – but I like a Chilean chardonnay or a posh white burgundy. My Danish friends have this joke where they sniff any wine I’ve brought and say “buttery”, as that’s apparently what I do.

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Hardly any women used to work in live music crews, but we now have a female lighting director, a female guitar tech, female monitors, which is brilliant. It’s mind-boggling to think there used to be a time when girls were told: “You can’t do those jobs – go to wardrobe, love.” Top 100 (ARIA) peaks from January 1990 to December 2010: Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (PDFed.). Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p.19. 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. For "Can You Feel the Love Tonight": "Elton John – Can You Feel The Love Tonight – dutchcharts.nl".