Rick Astley recalls vandalizing his dressing room sign — and security blaming Noel Gallagher

Despite his best intentions, Rick Astley admits that he once let Noel down.

The "Never Gonna Give You Up" singer recalled inadvertently getting Oasis songwriter Noel Gallagher in trouble for a crime he didn't commit in his autobiography Never.

Astley and Gallagher were among the English musicians who played a benefit show commemorating the reopening of Manchester Arena in 2017. The show raised funds for a memorial for the victims of a terrorist attack at an Ariana Grande concert at the same venue earlier that year. "It was a real honour to be asked," Astley recalled in his book. "It was incredibly emotional, of course, but it was also really good fun."

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The singer developed an unusual tradition over the course of his career. "I'd got into the habit of graffitiing my own dressing-room sign: I'd write underneath my name so that instead of saying RICK ASTLEY it now said RICK ASTLEY IS A TIT," he remembered. "It had become a kind of running joke at those gigs. It was a daft, piss-taking thing to do to kill the time backstage."

Old habits die hard, and Astley pulled the same move at the 2017 event, which caused a problem for another performer. "I did it to my dressing-room sign at the Manchester Arena and didn't think any more about it until I saw Noel Gallagher's security guy quietly ripping down the sign with my name on it — presumably in case I saw it and became offended — and I had to go and sheepishly tell them that I'd graffitied it myself," Astley wrote.

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Unfortunately, that wasn't the extent of the drama. "Later, Noel Gallagher told me he'd had a bollocking from the guy: he'd burst into his dressing room and accused him of bullying other acts on the bill," Astley explained. "When he said he didn't know what they were talking about, they said someone had written an abusive message on Rick Astley's dressing-room door and they assumed it was him; Noel's always been known for his forthright opinions about other artists."

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That much is true about Gallagher — he publicly wished that two members of rival Britpop band Blur would "catch AIDS and die," referred to Robbie Williams as "the fat dancer from Take That," called Eminem a "f---ing idiot" and "boring," labeled Phil Collins the "antichrist," said it was "wrong" to have a hip-hop artist like Jay-Z at Glastonbury, and called the 1975's Matty Healy a "f---ing slack-jawed f---wit."

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However, there didn't seem to be too much bad blood between the two musicians, as Astley said he later attended "a bit of a party in Noel's dressing room," where he told another guest that Oasis' "Supersonic" was one of his top five songs written by Mancunian musicians.

Astley's autobiography Never is available now.

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