In Never, Rick Astley’s recent autobiography, the ’80s pop star describes how looking back over decades gave him a fresh appreciation of one critical factor in his success. “You see how much luck and chance is involved in your life and career,” he writes in the prologue. “You can have drive and ambition and talent, but there’s a huge amount of luck involved too: you know, someone wrote a three-and-a-half-minute pop song in 1987, and my life completely changed as a result of that. It’s ridiculous, really.”
在瑞克•艾斯利(Rick Astley)最近的自傳《永不》中,這位80年代的流行音樂明星描述了回顧幾十年後,他對自己成功的一個關鍵因素有了新的認識。他在序言中寫道:「你會看到生活和事業中有多少運氣和機遇。你可能擁有動力、抱負和才華,但運氣也佔了很大一部分:你知道,1987年有人寫了一首三分半鐘的流行歌曲,我的生活因此完全改變了。這真是荒謬。」