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This article is about the Rick Astley song. For other uses, see Never Gonna Give You Up (disambiguation).

"Never Gonna Give You Up"
Song

"Never Gonna Give You Up" is a single by Rick Astley, released on July 8, 1987. Written and produced by Stock Aitken Waterman. The song was released as the first single from his debut album, Whenever You Need Somebody (1987). The song was a worldwide number-one hit, initially in the singer's native United Kingdom in 1987, where it stayed atop the chart for five weeks and was the best-selling single of that year. It eventually topped the charts in 25 countries, including the United States and West Germany.[4]

The song won Best British Single at the 1988 Brit Awards. In 2004, it was voted no. 28 in 50 Most Awesomely Bad Songs... Ever by VH1.

The music video for the song has become the basis for the "Rickrolling" Internet meme. In 2008, Rick Astley won the MTV Europe Music Award for Best Act Ever with the song, as a result of collective voting from thousands of people on the internet, due to the popular phenomenon of Rickrolling. It was also featured as a downloadable track for the Rock Band series.

The song is considered Astley's signature song.

Music video

In the "Never Gonna Give You Up" music video, directed by Simon West,[5] produced by Andy Picheta and edited by Robert Bannochie, a smiling Astley sings and dances to the song in various outfits and venues in west London, sometimes accompanied by backup dancers. A bartender, played by Clive Clarke (who appeared prolifically in 1980s music videos, and was a member of Top of the Pops dance troupe Zoo) gradually shifts from casually noticing Astley's singing to being fully engrossed in the song with energetic acrobatic moves. The athletic exertion of many of the other dancers also becomes more intense over the course of Astley's performance.

Track listings

7" single
  1. "Never Gonna Give You Up" (7" Vocal Mix) – 3:32
  2. "Never Gonna Give You Up" (Instrumental) – 3:30
12" maxi
  1. "Never Gonna Give You Up" (Cake mix) – 5:46
  2. "Never Gonna Give You Up" (Instrumental) – 6:19
  3. "Never Gonna Give You Up" – 3:32
  4. "Never Gonna Give You Up" (Escape to New York mix) – 7:01
  5. "Never Gonna Give You Up" (Escape from Newton mix) – 6:23
12" maxi
  1. "Never Gonna Give You Up" (Cake mix) – 5:48
  2. "Never Gonna Give You Up" (Instrumental) – 3:30
  3. "Never Gonna Give You Up" – 3:32
12" single
  1. "Never Gonna Give You Up" (Escape from Newton mix) – 6:30
  2. "Never Gonna Give You Up" (Escape to New York mix) – 7:00

Personnel

  • Written and produced by Stock, Aitken & Waterman
  • Engineer : Mark McGuire, Mike Duffy
  • Tape Operator : Burni Adams
  • Mixed by :
    • Escape from Newton mix : Mixmaster Pete Hammond
    • Escape to New York mix : The Extra Beat Boys

Charts and certifications

Order of precedence
Preceded by Australian Kent Music Report number-one single
30 November 1987 – 11 January 1988 (7 weeks) 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Single Top 100 number-one single
10 October 1987 – 7 November 1987 (5 weeks)
Belgian Ultratop 50 Flanders number-one single
24 October 1987 – 14 November 1988 (4 weeks)
Belgian VRT Top 30 Flanders number-one single
31 October 1987 – 14 November 1988 (3 weeks) 		Succeeded by
Dutch Top 40 number-one single
10 October 1987 – 31 October 1987 (4 weeks)
Preceded by New Zealand number-one single
7 February 1988 (1 week)
Preceded by UK Singles Chart number-one single
23 August 1987 – 26 September 1987 (5 weeks)
Preceded by Canadian RPM Adult Contemporary number-one single
2 April 1988 – 9 April 1988 (2 weeks) 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Canadian RPM number-one single
19 March 1988 – 2 April 1988 (3 weeks) 		Succeeded by
Preceded by German number-one single
5 October 1987 – 19 October 1987 (3 weeks) 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Norwegian number-one single
43/1987 (1 week) 		Succeeded by
Preceded by South African number-one single
26 December 1987 – 23 January 1988 (5 weeks) 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Swedish number-one single
30 September 1987 – 11 November 1987 (4 weeks) 		Succeeded by
"Oh Mama" by Lili & Sussie
Preceded by Spanish number-one single
3 December 1987 – 10 December 1987 (2 weeks)
24 December 1987 – 7 January 1988 (3 weeks)
4 February 1988 (1 week) 		Succeeded by
Preceded by US Billboard Adult Contemporary number-one single
12 March 1988 – 26 March 1988 (3 weeks) 		Succeeded by
Preceded by US Billboard Hot 100 number-one single
12 March 1988 – 19 March 1988 (2 weeks) 		Succeeded by
US Cash Box number-one single
19 March 1988 (1 week)
Preceded by US Billboard Hot Dance Club Play number-one single
16 January 1988 (1 week) 		Succeeded by
Preceded by UK Singles Chart best-selling single of the year
1987 		Succeeded by

Other cover versions

  • In 1997, French band 2Be3 covered the song under the name "Toujours là pour toi", which had a great success in France (No. 4) and Belgium (Wallonia) (No. 12).[46]
  • In 1999, an Italian cover entitled "Non ti lascerò" was made by Fiorello.[47]
  • Eurobeat artist Kevin Johnson covered the song in 2004 for the album Super Eurobeat 149.[48]
  • A group of London dance producers called The Rickrollerz made a house music cover version of "Never Gonna Give You Up"[49] The song was remixed on the same day and in the same studio where the original recording took place 20 years earlier. In May 2008, the track entered the UK Club Charts at no. 22. The Version was released at 11 April 2008 and produced by The Rickrollerz self.
  • In August 2007, internet celebrity and singer Tay Zonday covered the song.[50]
  • On 25 November 2008, Barry Manilow released a version of the song on his The Greatest Songs of the Eighties album.[51]

Rickrolling

Main article: Rickrolling

"Never Gonna Give You Up" is the subject of a popular Internet prank known as "rickrolling" involving misleading links (commonly shortened URLs) redirecting to the song's music video.[52] By May 2007, the practice had achieved notoriety on the Internet, and it increased in popularity after its use as a 2008 April Fools' Day joke by various media companies and websites, including YouTube rickrolling all of its featured videos on that day and a website allowing people to rickroll their friends' phones.[53]

In "a couple of weeks," about 13 million people had been rickrolled into watching Astley's video, the BBC reported on 1 April 2008. "I think it's just one of those odd things where something gets picked up and people run with it," Astley told the Los Angeles Times in late March 2008, adding: "That's what's brilliant about the Internet."[54][55]

Astley also appeared in the 2008 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade interrupting a song performed by those on a float promoting the Cartoon Network program Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends with a lipsynched performance of "Never Gonna Give You Up."

Despite the video garnering millions of hits on YouTube, Astley has earned almost no money from the meme, receiving only US$12 in royalties from YouTube for his performance share, as of August 2010.[56]

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