Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Astley
Never Gonna Give You Up is the first single from Rick Astley's debut album Whenever You Need Somebody, released in July 1987 on RCA. Stock Aitken Waterman, meaning Mike Stock, Matt Aitken and Pete Waterman, wrote and produced the song. It entered the UK chart in August 1987 and spent five weeks at No. 1. Astley has said the song was No. 1 in the UK before the video was made. In the United States it topped the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks from 12 March 1988. At the BRIT Awards on 8 February 1988, Astley won Best British Single and Aitken & Waterman won Best British Producer. Astley's deep lead voice sits above a synthesizer-led backing: the drums come from a Linn 9000 drum machine, and Ian Curnow programmed the string part on a Fairlight, as Astley recalls it. Two decades later the video found a second life. In 2007 it resurfaced as the bait-and-switch internet joke known as Rickrolling, in which a link that promises something else leads to the video, and in 2008 Astley won MTV's Best Act Ever through an online campaign. In 2019 he recorded a piano arrangement called Pianoforte for his album The Best of Me.
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Never Gonna Give You Up is the first single from Rick Astley's debut album Whenever You Need Somebody, released in July 1987 on RCA. Stock Aitken Waterman, meaning Mike Stock, Matt Aitken and Pete Waterman, wrote and produced the song.
It entered the UK chart in August 1987 and spent five weeks at No. 1. Astley has said the song was No. 1 in the UK before the video was made. In the United States it topped the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks from 12 March 1988. At the BRIT Awards on 8 February 1988, Astley won Best British Single and Aitken & Waterman won Best British Producer.
Astley's deep lead voice sits above a synthesizer-led backing: the drums come from a Linn 9000 drum machine, and Ian Curnow programmed the string part on a Fairlight, as Astley recalls it.
Two decades later the video found a second life. In 2007 it resurfaced as the bait-and-switch internet joke known as Rickrolling, in which a link that promises something else leads to the video, and in 2008 Astley won MTV's Best Act Ever through an online campaign. In 2019 he recorded a piano arrangement called Pianoforte for his album The Best of Me.