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Rickrolling or a Rickroll is an Internet meme involving the unexpected appearance of the music video to the 1987 hit song "Never Gonna Give You Up", performed by English singer Rick Astley. The aforementioned video has over 1.5 billion views on YouTube. The meme is a type of bait and switch, usually using a disguised hyperlink that leads to the ...
Webdriver Torso is a YouTube automated performance testing account that became famous in 2014 for speculations about its (then unexplained) nature and jokes featured in some of its videos. Created by Google on March 7, 2013, [1] the channel began uploading videos on September 23 of the same year, consisting of simple slides accompanied by beeps ...
On April 1, 2008, all featured videos on the UK and Australian homepages, and later, all international homepages, of Google-owned YouTube linked to a video of Rick Astley's song "Never Gonna Give You Up", causing all users of the website who clicked on featured videos to be Rickrolled.
However, many fans would beg to differ — and there’s plenty of recent evidence of Astley’s coolness. For instance, six years ago, a YouTube video of him playing the drums while singing AC/DC ...
Rick’s aware of the whole phenomenon, from a distance. Today, he’s come full circle, grateful for the success the song has brought him. “It was definitely one of the songs of that summer ...
Music video. "Never Gonna Give You Up" on YouTube. " Never Gonna Give You Up " is a pop song by English singer Rick Astley, released on 27 July 1987. Written and produced by Stock Aitken Waterman, it was released by RCA Records as the first single from Astley's debut studio album, Whenever You Need Somebody (1987).
The album was released in September 1987, and immediately began receiving heavy radio airplay, with sales reaching number 17 in the UK [30] and number 15 in the U.S. [33] Big Generator earned Yes a nomination for a second Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal in 1988, and was also certified platinum (with 1 million ...
Whenever You Need Somebody is the debut studio album by English singer Rick Astley released on 16 November 1987 by RCA Records. It is his best-selling album, which, according to his own official website, has sold 15.2 million copies worldwide. [7] The album is listed as the 136th best-selling album in Spain [8] and was the seventh best-selling ...