| “ | Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down, never gonna run around and desert you! Never gonna make you cry, never gonna say goodbye, never gonna tell a lie, and hurt you! |
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―Rick Astley, Never Gonna Give You Up (1987) | ||
Richard Paul "Rick" Astley (born: February 6, 1966), is an English musician known for his famous song Never Gonna Give You Up. Rick has other songs too like Together Forever, Angels on My Side, Giving Up on Love, all of which were hits at their time of release.
History[]
Astley joined on October 24, 2009, through VEVO, then uploaded his first single in 17 years "Lights Out". Then he uploaded his second video on his personal channel on February 1, 2015, which was uploaded a few years after the channel uploaded his first video. VEVO transferred all of his music videos on his VEVO channel sometime in 2021.
On July 28, 2021, his song Never Gonna Give You Up reached a billion views, partially because of rickroling.[1]
Trivia[]
- His song Never Gonna Give You Up got popular after a phenomenon started, which was called "rickrolling". It got so popular that the song has now reached 2 billion+ views on YouTube.
- Rick's second most viewed song Together Forever, which is from the same album of Never Gonna Give You Up, Whenever You Need Somebody, is the second most popular video on his channel. It is considered "the secret ending to Rickrolling".
- Despite being known among current generations for his song Never Gonna Give You Up, he is not a one-hit wonder as some people might think, as his aforementioned songs were also hits. The thing is that Never Gonna Give You Up has amassed extended fame thanks to the rickrolling meme.
- During JackSucksAtLife's journey to having four million subscribers, he declared a subscriber battle with Astley. In result, Jack won the war.[2]
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