Rick Astley's much more than one song. To prove what an impressive back catalogue of dance pop and blue-eyed soul hits he's ...
Rick Astley was just 21 years old when he recorded his 1987 hit, "Never Gonna Give You Up." It spent two weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, and charted for 24 more weeks. At age 27, he retired ...
Rick Astley may be cemented in music history for the viral “Rickrolling” prank, but he’s never actually pulled it himself. Two decades after the English singer’s iconic track “Never Gonna Give You Up” ...
He can probably thank the Rickrolling phenomenon for this one. By Kimberly Nordyke Managing Editor, Digital Rick Astley‘s 1987 hit song “Never Gonna Give You Up” has passed 1 billion streams on ...
Rick Astley "doesn’t know what" he thinks about Stock Aitken Waterman’s new stage musical. The 57-year-old singer shot to fame in the 1980s alongside a host of other stars like Kylie Minogue, Jason ...
No, Mr. Astley, this isn't a fake-out. You're streaming royalty now. "I never could have imagined back in 1987 that 'Never Gonna Give You Up' would still be going strong decades later," Astley, 59, ...
In the 1980s through to the early ‘90s, the songwriting and producing trio of Mike Stock, Matt Aitken, and Pete Waterman—known professionally as Stock Aitken Waterman or SAW—were responsible for some ...
In a new memoir, ‘Never: The Autobiography,’ the English rocker opens up about “Never Gonna Give You Up,” the viral meme that followed and how instant fame affected his personal life Frank ...