Rick Astley is not dead, despite what you might have heard to the contrary. The singer's death was reported in a faked Associated Press article that hit the internet on Wednesday claiming that his body had been found in a Berlin hotel room.
In a statement on Astley's website, his manager Tops Henderson assured fans that he was alive and well and rehearsing for a show in Copenhagen's Tivoli Gardens on Friday evening. He said: "I have just spoken with Rick, who is in Copenhagen preparing for his show on Friday evening at the Tivoli Gardens. I think this is somebody's idea of a joke or retribution for the Rick Rolling internet prank".
Celebrity death rumours have been in vogue the last few days after the improbable closeness of the deaths of Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson, and the legend that bad things come in threes. The most high profile fake death to be reported was probably that of Jeff Goldblum, who pays tribute to his apparently dead self in this rather amusing video.