Rick Astley has performed an acoustic cover of Chappell Roan‘s ‘Pink Pony Club’ – check it out below.
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Last night (March 3), the ‘Never Gonna Give You Up’ hitmaker took to YouTube to share a performance he’s recorded of himself singing Chappell Roan’s ‘Pink Pony Club’. In the video, Astley sports a pastel pink blazer and towards the end of the track puts on a cowboy hat.
Astley also shared the video on Instagram, where he wrote: “Feeling in the pink today, I love this tune.”
Check out the cover below.
Astley’s cover comes after Roan had performed a duet of the song with Elton John at his Oscars viewing party.
Before Roan began, John introduced her with a speech, in which he reflected on hearing her work for the first time. “I just freaked out when I heard her. I interviewed her and fell in love with her and the album,” he said. “She’s so kind to do this. She’s one of the biggest stars in the world right now. Not only does she speak with her voice on stage but off it.”
Elsewhere at Elton John’s fundraising event, she took the stage for a full set that included more duets with John for ‘Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me’ and ‘Your Song’, which she covered on YouTube five years ago before finding mainstream fame. She also sang ‘Naked in Manhattan’, ‘Super Graphic Ultra Modern Girl’, ‘Femininomenon’, ‘Hot To Go’ and ‘Good Luck, Babe!’.
Just the night before the performance, Roan had used her voice to dedicate her BRIT Award win “to trans artists, to drag queens, to fashion students, sex workers, and Sinead O’Connor,” and prior to that made headlines after using her Best New Artist speech at the 67th Grammy Awards to take aim at record labels and share her past experience as a struggling new artist.
