Grace Dent's TV OD: I'm A Pop Star!

The final part of BBC2's compelling Saturday night series I'm A Pop Star! reveals some of the loneliness of the long-distance solo pop star"I thought there would at least be a meeting," reflects Rick Astley on BBC2's I'm A Pop Star! (Sat, 9pm, BBC2), talking of his first Top Of The Pops. "I thought someone might tell me what to wear." Popland in 1987 was a seemingly slapdash affair. One moment Astley is working in Stock Aitken & Waterman's "Hit Factory" wrestling a Rank Xerox toner cartridge and...

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