"Hold Me in Your Arms" is a song written and performed by English singer-songwriter Rick Astley.
Released in early 1989 as the third single from his album Hold Me in Your Arms, it became a top ten hit in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
In 2019, Astley recorded and released a "reimagined" version of the song for his album The Best of Me, which features a new piano arrangement.
[3] Julianne Regan of All About Eve also wasn't really impressed by "Hold Me in Your Arms" by saying "this song is exactly what you'd expect from him" in her capsule review for New Musical Express.
[4] Much more positive, a review in Music Week praised Astley's involvement in the writing of "Hold Me in Your Arms", which is presented to be "as strong a ballad as anything [SAW] has ever concocted".