Never Gonna Give You Up - Muziek
Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Astley
Rick Astley
Biografie van de kunstenaar Rick Astley
Richard Paul Astley Born February 6 1966 Is An English Dance-Pop Singer Songwriter And Musician. He Was Born In Newton-Le-Willows St Helens Lancashire England. Astley Currently Resides In Richmond Surrey With His Danish Girlfriend Lene Bausager And Their Daughter Emilie. In 1985 Astley Was Playing The Club Circuit As A Singer With A Soul Band Named FBI When He Was Seen By The Record Producer Pete Waterman And Persuaded To Come To London To Work At The PWL Recording Studio. Under The Tutelage Of Production Trio Stock Aitken Waterman Astley Was Taught About The Recording Process And Groomed For His Future Career Supposedly Starting Off As The Recording Studio 'tea Boy'. During Much Of His Career Prior To The Proliferation Of Music Videos Many Listeners Assumed He Was Black. In One Instance The Comedic Entertainer Sinbad Discussed Him With A Talk-Show Host Expressing His Surprise That Astley Was Not "one Of The Brothers." Even After His Visual Appearance It Was Still Popular Belief That He Was Miming For A Black American Singer. His Brother Mark Astley Helped To Refute This Assertion. His First Single Was The Little-Known "When You Gonna" Credited To Rick & Lisa But His First Solo Outing Was "Never Gonna Give You Up " Released In 1987. It Became An Immediate Success Spending Five Weeks At The Top Of The British Charts And Becoming The Year's Highest-Selling Single. It Was The First Of No Fewer Than 13 World-Wide Top 30 Hit Singles For Him. The Album Whenever You Need Somebody Also Reached Number One In The UK And The Hit Singles Continued Including The Title Track And A Cover Of Nat King Cole's "When I Fall In Love." On 12 March 1988 "Never Gonna Give You Up" Had Also Topped The U.S. Singles Chart And Was Followed By A Second U.S. #1 On 18 June With His Second U.S. Single Release "Together Forever." By The End Of The Decade Astley Had Parted Company With Stock Aitken Waterman. He Achieved One More Major Success With The 1991 Ballad "Cry For Help " Which Reached The Top 10 In Both The UK And The U.S. It Featured A Gospel Choir Arranged By Andraé Crouch Who'd Also Been Involved With Madonna's 1989 Hit "Like A Prayer." His Next Album Body & Soul Was Released In 1993. The Album Did Not Chart In The U.K. And Managed To Make The Billboard 200 Peaking At A Lowly #182. The Two Singles The Ones You Love And Hopelessly Performed Very Well On The Adult Contemporary Chart Peaking At #19 And #4 Respectively. Hopelessly Also Crossed Over And Peaked At #31 On The Top 40 Mainstream Chart. For Much Of The 1990s And Early 2000s Astley Remained Largely Out Of The Spotlight. In 1991 The RIAA Certified That Two Million Copies Of Whenever You Need Somebody Had Been Sold. Total World Sales Of Astley's Records Inclusive Of Singles Albums And Compilation Inclusions Have Reached 40 Million. Almost 10 Years After "Body & Soul" Rick Finally Returned To The Music World And Released "Keep It Turned On" In 2002. The Album Featured The Single "Sleeping" Which Became A Minor Club Hit Thanks To A Set Of Remixes From U.S. House Producer Todd Terry. In 2005 Astley Released The Album Portrait In Which He Covered Many Classic Soul Standards Such As "Vincent" "Nature Boy" And "Close To You". In Early 2006 Astley Withdrew Unexpectedly At The Eleventh Hour From Appearing On The BBC TV Celebrity/pro Duets Show Just The Two Of Us After Committing To The Series. This Led To Criticism From Those In The Entertainment Industry And Media. His Place Was Filled By Opera Singer Russell Watson Who Eventually Won The Competition. The BBC Failed To Explain That Astley's Withdrawal Was Due To His Partner Lene Bausager Being Nominated For The 2006 Academy Award For Best Live Action Short Film For Her Produced/directed Film "Cashback". Astley Would Have Missed A Crucial Part Of The Show By Attending The Awards Ceremony And So Withdrew Before The Show Started Its Run. Based On Various Music Charts In The UK U.S. And Canada Astley Has Charted A Grand Total Of 14 Different Hit Singles And 6 Different Hit Albums As Of March 2006. During The Later Part Of 2006 And The Beginning Of 2007 The Song "Never Gonna Give You Up" Became Part Of An Internet Meme Similar To The "Duckrolling" Of The 4chan Game Forums. A Link Would Be Submitted To The Forum In The First Instances To A Supposed Trailer Of A New Game And Would Redirect The User To The Video. This Process Fondly Became Known As A "Rickroll" And The Usage Of Which Has Developed Exponentially Since. As A Result Of The Increased Publicity Rick Astley's Former Record Company RCA Released A Greatest Hits Album. In 2008 He Won The Best Act Ever Prize At MTV EMA's. In The Same Year He Rick Rolled America On National TV In Macy's Thanksgiving Parade..Thanks To Cartoon Network
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Rick-Astley - Whenever You Need Somebody
"Never Gonna Give You Up" Is A Pop Song Originally Performed By Rick Astley. It Was Released As A Single From Astley's Multi-Million Selling Debut Album Whenever You Need Somebody Which Was Written And Produced By Stock Aitken Waterman. The Song Was A Worldwide Number-One Hit Initially In The Singer's Native United Kingdom In 1987 Where It Stayed At Number One For Five Weeks And Was The Best-Selling Single Of That Year. It Was Knocked Off The UK Number-One Spot By M/A/R/R/S "Pump Up The Volume" Who Were Sued By Stock Aitken Waterman Using A Distorted Sample From Their Hit Single "Roadblock". It Became Number One Throughout Europe And Hit Number One On The Billboard Hot 100 In The United States On March 12 1988. It Reached Number One In Australia In December 1987. Soon After The Song Was Specifically Mentioned In The Manual By Hit-Makers The KLF As A Positive Example Of 'genius' Chart Pop Lyrics. "Never Gonna Give You Up" Is Listed As The Best Charting Single Of The 1980s In Australia By The Kent Music Report Due To Its Longevity In The Charts. The Song Reached Number 2 In The United World Chart Knocked-Off The Top Spot By George Michael's "Father Figure". The Music Video For The Song Has Become The Basis For The "Rickrolling" Internet Meme. MUSIC VIDEO In The "Never Gonna Give You Up" Music Video Directed By Simon West 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 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. "Never Gonna Give You Up" Is The Subject Of A Popular Internet Prank Known As "rickrolling" Involving Misleading Links Redirecting To The Song's Music Video. By May 2007 The Practice Had Achieved Notoriety On The Internet And It Increased In Popularity After Its Use As A 2008 April Fool's 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. 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." COVERS In 1997 The French Band 2Be3 Covered The Song Under The Name "Toujours Là Pour Toi" Which Had A Great Success In France #4 And Belgium Wallonia #12 . * Eurobeat Artist Kevin Johnson Also Covered The Song For The Album Super Eurobeat 149. In 1999 An Italian Cover Titled "Non Ti Lascerò" Was Made By Fiorello. In 2008 It Has Been Covered By Ashley Tisdale For The Degree Girl Website. In April 2008 A House Music Remix Of The Track Was Produced By A Group Of London Dance Producers Working Under The Pseudonym "The Rickrollerz" On The Day Of And In Honor Of The London Liverpool Street Station "Rickmob" On 11th April. UK Producer Simple Sigh Also Produced A Remix In April 2008 Entitled "Never Gonna Give You Up Simple Sigh's RickRoll Remix ". MEDIA * In The "Charlie Has Cancer" Episode Of "It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia" Dennis Is Seen Singing Along To The Song While Listening To It On His Car Radio.
* The Boondocks Has A Parody Of "Never Gonna Give You Up" In The Background During The Lionel Richie Segment Of "Attack Of The Killer Kung-Fu Wolf Bitch" In Season 2 Of The TV Series. However It Is Not Performed By Rick Astley And Is Somewhat Muddled.
* The Song Plays Briefly On A Car Radio During The Doctor Who Episode "Father's Day" Which Is Set In Late 1987.
* Mike Peters Host Of The Radio Program Prerecorded Comedy Live On 91.7 FM WSUM In Madison Wisconsin Devoted An Entire Hour To The Song On March 29th 2008 As An April Fools' Joke. Starting With The Original Each Subsequent Song Was Then A Cover Version Of Some Kind Usually Followed By The Original Song And Then Another Cover. The Covers Consisted Of Amateur Covers Lifted Off YouTube A MIDI-Version A Sped-Up Version Of The Original And A Distorted Version Of The Original.
* The Web Comic Xkcd Featured Rick Astley Getting Rickrolled In Comic 351 Trolling And Later Featured Sheet Music To An Excerpt From 'Never Gonna Give You Up' In Comic 389 Keeping Time.
* In May 2008 The Web Comic Looking For Group Featured The Character Richard Singing The First Verse Of 'Never Gonna Give You Up' On Page 144. Later On Dave Mitchell Who Will Provide Richard's Voice For The Upcoming LFG Animated Film Posted His Own In-Character Cover "Dick Roll'd" On His Myspace Page.
*The Song Is Mentioned In Weezer's Song "Heart Songs" Off Their Eponymous 2008 Album.
*Nick Lowe's Song "All Men Are Liars" References The Song With The Lyrics "Do You Remember Rick Astley?/ He Had A Big Fat Hit That Was Ghastly / He Said I’m Never Gonna Give You Up Or Let You Down / Well I’m Here To Tell Ya That Dick’s A Clown."
*The Popular Canadian Teen Drama Degrassi The Next Generation Which Is Known For Naming Each Episode After An 80s Hit Song Named An Episode After This Song.
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Richard Paul Astley Born February 6 1966 Is An English Dance-Pop Singer Songwriter And Musician. He Was Born In Newton-Le-Willows St Helens Lancashire England. Astley Currently Resides In Richmond Surrey With His Danish Girlfriend Lene Bausager And Their Daughter Emilie. In 1985 Astley Was Playing The Club Circuit As A Singer With A Soul Band Named FBI When He Was Seen By The Record Producer Pete Waterman And Persuaded To Come To London To Work At The PWL Recording Studio. Under The Tutelage Of Production Trio Stock Aitken Waterman Astley Was Taught About The Recording Process And Groomed For His Future Career Supposedly Starting Off As The Recording Studio 'tea Boy'. During Much Of His Career Prior To The Proliferation Of Music Videos Many Listeners Assumed He Was Black. In One Instance The Comedic Entertainer Sinbad Discussed Him With A Talk-Show Host Expressing His Surprise That Astley Was Not "one Of The Brothers." Even After His Visual Appearance It Was Still Popular Belief That He Was Miming For A Black American Singer. His Brother Mark Astley Helped To Refute This Assertion. His First Single Was The Little-Known "When You Gonna" Credited To Rick & Lisa But His First Solo Outing Was "Never Gonna Give You Up " Released In 1987. It Became An Immediate Success Spending Five Weeks At The Top Of The British Charts And Becoming The Year's Highest-Selling Single. It Was The First Of No Fewer Than 13 World-Wide Top 30 Hit Singles For Him. The Album Whenever You Need Somebody Also Reached Number One In The UK And The Hit Singles Continued Including The Title Track And A Cover Of Nat King Cole's "When I Fall In Love." On 12 March 1988 "Never Gonna Give You Up" Had Also Topped The U.S. Singles Chart And Was Followed By A Second U.S. #1 On 18 June With His Second U.S. Single Release "Together Forever." By The End Of The Decade Astley Had Parted Company With Stock Aitken Waterman. He Achieved One More Major Success With The 1991 Ballad "Cry For Help " Which Reached The Top 10 In Both The UK And The U.S. It Featured A Gospel Choir Arranged By Andraé Crouch Who'd Also Been Involved With Madonna's 1989 Hit "Like A Prayer." His Next Album Body & Soul Was Released In 1993. The Album Did Not Chart In The U.K. And Managed To Make The Billboard 200 Peaking At A Lowly #182. The Two Singles The Ones You Love And Hopelessly Performed Very Well On The Adult Contemporary Chart Peaking At #19 And #4 Respectively. Hopelessly Also Crossed Over And Peaked At #31 On The Top 40 Mainstream Chart. For Much Of The 1990s And Early 2000s Astley Remained Largely Out Of The Spotlight. In 1991 The RIAA Certified That Two Million Copies Of Whenever You Need Somebody Had Been Sold. Total World Sales Of Astley's Records Inclusive Of Singles Albums And Compilation Inclusions Have Reached 40 Million. Almost 10 Years After "Body & Soul" Rick Finally Returned To The Music World And Released "Keep It Turned On" In 2002. The Album Featured The Single "Sleeping" Which Became A Minor Club Hit Thanks To A Set Of Remixes From U.S. House Producer Todd Terry. In 2005 Astley Released The Album Portrait In Which He Covered Many Classic Soul Standards Such As "Vincent" "Nature Boy" And "Close To You". In Early 2006 Astley Withdrew Unexpectedly At The Eleventh Hour From Appearing On The BBC TV Celebrity/pro Duets Show Just The Two Of Us After Committing To The Series. This Led To Criticism From Those In The Entertainment Industry And Media. His Place Was Filled By Opera Singer Russell Watson Who Eventually Won The Competition. The BBC Failed To Explain That Astley's Withdrawal Was Due To His Partner Lene Bausager Being Nominated For The 2006 Academy Award For Best Live Action Short Film For Her Produced/directed Film "Cashback". Astley Would Have Missed A Crucial Part Of The Show By Attending The Awards Ceremony And So Withdrew Before The Show Started Its Run. Based On Various Music Charts In The UK U.S. And Canada Astley Has Charted A Grand Total Of 14 Different Hit Singles And 6 Different Hit Albums As Of March 2006. During The Later Part Of 2006 And The Beginning Of 2007 The Song "Never Gonna Give You Up" Became Part Of An Internet Meme Similar To The "Duckrolling" Of The 4chan Game Forums. A Link Would Be Submitted To The Forum In The First Instances To A Supposed Trailer Of A New Game And Would Redirect The User To The Video. This Process Fondly Became Known As A "Rickroll" And The Usage Of Which Has Developed Exponentially Since. As A Result Of The Increased Publicity Rick Astley's Former Record Company RCA Released A Greatest Hits Album. In 2008 He Won The Best Act Ever Prize At MTV EMA's. In The Same Year He Rick Rolled America On National TV In Macy's Thanksgiving Parade..Thanks To Cartoon Network
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"Never Gonna Give You Up" is a pop song originally performed by Rick Astley. It was released as a single from Astley's multi-million selling debut album, Whenever You Need Somebody, which was written and produced by Stock Aitken Waterman. The song was a worldwide number-one hit, initially in the singer's native United Kingdom in 1987, where it stayed at number one for five weeks and was the best-selling single of that year. It was knocked off the UK number-one spot by M/A/R/R/S "Pump Up the Volume" who were sued by Stock Aitken Waterman using a distorted sample from their hit single "Roadblock".
It became number one throughout Europe and hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States on March 12, 1988. It reached number one in Australia in December 1987. Soon after, the song was specifically mentioned in The Manual by hit-makers The KLF as a positive example of 'genius' chart pop lyrics. "Never Gonna Give You Up" is listed as the best charting single of the 1980s in Australia, by the Kent Music Report, due to its longevity in the charts. The song reached number 2 in the United World Chart, knocked-off the top spot by George Michael's "Father Figure".
The music video for the song has become the basis for the "Rickrolling" Internet meme.
==MUSIC VIDEO==
In the "Never Gonna Give You Up" music video, directed by Simon West, 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 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.
"Never Gonna Give You Up" is the subject of a popular Internet prank known as "rickrolling" involving misleading links redirecting to the song's music video. By May 2007 the practice had achieved notoriety on the Internet, and it increased in popularity after its use as a 2008 April Fool's 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.
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."
==COVERS==
In 1997, the French band 2Be3 covered the song under the name "Toujours là pour toi", which had a great success in France (#4) and Belgium (Wallonia) (#12). * Eurobeat artist Kevin Johnson also covered the song for the album Super Eurobeat 149. In 1999, an Italian cover titled "Non ti lascerò" was made by Fiorello. In 2008, it has been covered by Ashley Tisdale for the Degree Girl website.
In April 2008 a house music remix of the track was produced by a group of London dance producers working under the pseudonym "The Rickrollerz" on the day of, and in honor of, the London Liverpool Street Station "Rickmob" on 11th April. UK Producer Simple Sigh also produced a remix in April 2008, entitled "Never Gonna Give You Up (Simple Sigh's RickRoll Remix)".
==MEDIA==
* In the "Charlie Has Cancer" episode of "It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia" Dennis is seen singing along to the song while listening to it on his car radio.
* The Boondocks has a parody of "Never Gonna Give You Up" in the background during the Lionel Richie segment of "Attack of the Killer Kung-Fu Wolf Bitch" in season 2 of the TV series. However, it is not performed by Rick Astley, and is somewhat muddled.
* The song plays briefly on a car radio during the Doctor Who episode "Father's Day", which is set in late 1987.
* Mike Peters, host of the radio program Prerecorded Comedy Live on 91.7 FM WSUM in Madison, Wisconsin, devoted an entire hour to the song on March 29th, 2008 as an April Fools' joke. Starting with the original, each subsequent song was then a cover version of some kind usually followed by the original song and then another cover. The covers consisted of amateur covers lifted off YouTube, a MIDI-version, a sped-up version of the original and a distorted version of the original.
* The Web comic xkcd featured Rick Astley getting Rickrolled in Comic 351: Trolling, and later featured sheet music to an excerpt from 'Never Gonna Give You Up' in Comic 389: Keeping Time.
* In May 2008, the Web comic Looking For Group featured the character Richard singing the first verse of 'Never Gonna Give You Up' on page 144. Later on, Dave Mitchell, who will provide Richard's voice for the upcoming LFG animated film, posted his own in-character cover ("Dick Roll'd") on his Myspace page.
*The song is mentioned in Weezer's song "Heart Songs" off their eponymous 2008 album.
*Nick Lowe's song "All Men are Liars" references the song with the lyrics, "Do you remember Rick Astley?/ He had a big fat hit that was ghastly / He said I’m never gonna give you up or let you down / Well I’m here to tell ya that Dick’s a clown."
*The popular Canadian teen drama Degrassi: The Next Generation, which is known for naming each episode after an 80s hit song, named an episode after this song. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.