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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 .
Mike Stock stated that the Colonel Abrams hit "Trapped" (1985) was a big influence on "Never Gonna Give You Up", saying: "For Rick Astley's song I didn't want it to sound like Kylie or Bananarama so I looked at the Colonel Abrams track 'Trapped' and recreated that syncopated bassline in a way that suited our song."
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If people know anything about the now 56-year-old Astley’s early history — that is, before he signed with the unstoppable powerhouse production team Stock Aitken Waterman (SAW) at age 19 and ...
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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 highest-selling album and has sold 15.2 million copies worldwide. [3]
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Astley and Sony BMG were unhappy with the result, so the album was poorly promoted, [3] yet it managed to reach No. 26 on the UK Albums Chart. In April 2008, the album The Ultimate Collection: Rick Astley was released by Sony BMG, and by May it had reached No. 17 on the UK Top 40 Albums Chart, [61] again with no promotion by Astley.