Rick Astley is back, with his biggest hit since the good old days of Stock Aitken Waterman. And Angels On My Side comes equipped with a video by Mike Baldwin that is a pitch-perfect mix of music, dance and action-comedy, that has you rooting for Rick as a unfussily cool, charmed everyman.It starts with Rick hung up in the dangerous end of some sketchy gangster dealings at a cargo container park. He's in the backseat of a car with two burly, fearsome men - who somehow have failed to notice Rick's Angels - in the form of 50s leather-jacket clad dancing girls (from dance troupe Sparkle Motion), are hanging out by a container, and break out in Grease-style formation, whenever Astley breaks into the chorus.When the whole affair comes to a head, as the gangster boss struts out from an alley, the girls swoop in, and get Rick out of harms way. It's silly, but it's also superior entertainment from Mike Baldwin, who after a long break, is now back on a roll in music videos.
Cat Velez - 20th June 2016