Im Never Gonna Take United Again

1987 single by Rick Astley

"Never Gonna Give You Upwards"
RickAstleyNeverGonnaGiveYouUp7InchSingleCover.jpg
Single by Rick Astley
from the anthology Whenever You Need Somebody
Released 27 July 1987[1]
Recorded October 1986[two]
Genre
  • Dance-pop[three] [four]
  • blue-eyed soul[5]
Length
  • iii:35 (album version)
  • iii:32 (7" vocal mix)
  • iii:thirty (instrumental version)
Characterization
  • RCA
  • PWL
Songwriter(s) Stock Aitken Waterman
Producer(s) Stock Aitken Waterman
Rick Astley singles chronology
"When You Gonna"
(1987)
"Never Gonna Requite You lot Up"
(1987)
"Learning to Live (Without Your Dear)"
(1987)
Audio sample

"Never Gonna Give You Up"

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Music video
"Never Gonna Give You Upwards" on YouTube

"Never Gonna Give You Up" is the debut unmarried recorded past English singer and songwriter Rick Astley, released on 27 July 1987. It is one of Astley's well-nigh famous songs. It was written and produced by Stock Aitken Waterman, and was released every bit the showtime single from Astley'southward debut album, Whenever You Need Somebody (1987). The vocal was a worldwide number-one hitting, initially in the United Kingdom in 1987, where it stayed at the elevation of the nautical chart for five weeks and was the best-selling single of that year. It eventually topped the charts in 25 countries, including the U.s.a. and West Germany.[6] The song won Best British Single at the 1988 Brit Awards.

In 2008, Astley won the MTV Europe Music Award for Best Deed Ever with the song, every bit a result of commonage voting from thousands of people on the Cyberspace, due to the Rickrolling meme.[7] The song is considered Astley's signature song and it is often played at the end of his live concerts. The music video for the vocal has get the basis for the "Rickrolling" Internet meme, in which a user expecting entirely unrelated content is shown the video.

In 2019, Astley recorded and released a 'Pianoforte' version of the vocal for his anthology The Best of Me, which features a new pianoforte arrangement.[eight]

Product

"Never Gonna Requite You Upwards" was recorded at PWL Studios in Southward London, England. The song'south basslines were produced using a Yamaha DX7 digital synthesizer, while a Linn 9000 was used for the drums and sequencing. Other equipment used included a Roland Juno 106 analog synthesizer, and Yamaha Rev5 and Rev7 reverberators.[nine]

Mike Stock stated that the Colonel Abrams hit "Trapped" (1985) was a big influence on "Never Gonna Requite You Up", maxim: "For Rick Astley'due south song I didn't want it to audio like Kylie or Bananarama so I looked at the Colonel Abrams rail 'Trapped' and recreated that syncopated bassline in a mode that suited our song."[ten]

The title and concept for the song were suggested by Pete Waterman after Astley spoke to him of his devotion to his then girlfriend, with the song'south tune, chords and lyrics then composed by Mike Stock and Matt Aitken.[11] Initial mixing was done by Phil Harding, with the song'due south distinctive constructed string and brass lines later added by Fairlight operator Ian Curnow.[11] The final mix was provided by PWL remixer Pete Hammond, who made the vocals more prominent. His completed extended mix was edited downwardly by Stock and Aitken to become the radio version.[eleven]

Music video

The 2022 music video for "Never Gonna Give You Up" was directed by Simon W. It was filmed in London, largely effectually the London Civic of Harrow.[12] Since beingness uploaded to YouTube on 24 October 2009, the video has received over 1.1 billion views; information technology surpassed that milestone on 28 July 2021, 34 years and 1 twenty-four hours afterwards the vocal was released.[13] [14]

Original success

On 12 March 1988, "Never Gonna Requite Yous Up" reached number one in the American Billboard Hot 100[15] afterwards having been played by resident DJ, Larry Levan, at the Paradise Garage in 1987.[xvi] The unmarried topped the charts in 25 countries worldwide.[6]

The single also reached the No. 1 spot on the year-end singles charts in the UK and South Africa.[17] [18]

Rickrolling

"Never Gonna Give You Up" is the bailiwick of an Internet meme known as "rickrolling" involving misleading links (normally shortened URLs) redirecting to the song's music video.[19] Originally started by users on 4chan, by May 2007, the practice had achieved notoriety on the Internet, and it increased in popularity after its use equally a 2008 Apr Fools' Day joke by diverse media companies and websites—including YouTube, which rickrolled all of its featured videos on that twenty-four hours—allowing people to easily rickroll their friends' devices.[xx] "I recollect it's but one of those odd things where something gets picked up and people run with it", Astley told the Los Angeles Times in belatedly March 2008, adding: "That's what's brilliant nigh the Cyberspace."[21]

Astley as well appeared in the 2008 Macy'due south Thanksgiving Day Parade, interrupting a song performed by those on a float promoting the Cartoon Network plan Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends with a lipsynched functioning of "Never Gonna Give You lot Up".

In that location were reports that despite the video garnering millions of hits on YouTube, Astley earned almost no money from the online phenomenon, receiving only $12 in royalties from YouTube for his performance share as of August 2010.[22] In 2016 Astley said he never bothered to effigy out how much money he earned from YouTube and clarified that he had as well been paid "a chunk of money" past Virgin to appear in a commercial and for an appearance at the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade.[23]

In July 2021, the song had been viewed 1 billion times on YouTube.[24]

Impact and legacy

Assessing the status of the rail as Stock Aitken Waterman'southward biggest and most enduring hitting, composer Mike Stock confessed he struggled to completely sympathise why the song had struck such a chord, but suggested its massive success was downwardly to a combination of the song, the singer, and the international clout of record label RCA.[11]

Fourth dimension Out listed "Never Gonna Requite You Upwards" at number 33 in their The 50 best '80s songs listing in 2018, adding, "Those synthesized strings, that thumping boots-and-pants beat, Astley'southward weirdly robust croon and his romantic-wooing-as-used-car-salesman pitch ('You wouldn't get this from whatever other guy')… Information technology all adds up to 3-and-a-half of the most effervescent minutes in the '80s canon."[25]

The song was reportedly played as function of a psychological campaign to convince Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega to surrender during the U.s. invasion of Panama in 1989,[26] forth with other songs such as the Clash's cover of "I Fought the Law".[27]

In April 2020, The Guardian ranked it at number 44 in their list of The 100 greatest UK No 1s.[28]

Archetype Pop ranked the song number four in their list of Top 40 Stock Aitken Waterman songs in 2021.[29]

The Emmy Award-winning sitcom Ted Lasso featured the song prominently in the season ii episode "No Weddings and a Funeral", including a scene where Rebecca Welton (played by Hannah Waddingham) begins to sing it in the heart of her begetter'south funeral. Astley himself commented of the episode, "Waddingham...did an amazing, incredible job. It was so emotional, and then moving, so incredible. People accept said they even cried (during) the church scene."[30]

Track listings

7" unmarried
  1. "Never Gonna Give You Up" (7" Vocal mix) – three:32
  2. "Never Gonna Give You lot Up" (Instrumental) – three:xxx
12" maxi
  1. "Never Gonna Requite You Upwards" (Cake mix) – 5:46
  2. "Never Gonna Give You Upward" (Instrumental) – 6:19
  3. "Never Gonna Give You Up" – 3:32
  4. "Never Gonna Give You Up" (Escape to New York mix) – seven:01
  5. "Never Gonna Give You Upwardly" (Escape from Newton mix) – half dozen:23
12" maxi
  1. "Never Gonna Give You Upward" (Cake mix) – 5:48
  2. "Never Gonna Give Yous Up" (Instrumental) – half-dozen:21
  3. "Never Gonna Give You Up" – 3:32
12" single
  1. "Never Gonna Give You lot Up" (Escape from Newton mix) – six:30
  2. "Never Gonna Give You Up" (Escape to New York mix) – 7:00

On 29 July 2021, to celebrate i billion views on YouTube, Rick Astley released a limited and numbered seven" blue vinyl. Only 2500 were signed and sold.[31] [32]

  1. "Never Gonna Give You Up" (7" Vocal mix) – 3:32
  2. "Never Gonna Give You Up" (Piano) – three:xxx

Charts

Certifications and sales

Cover versions

  • In 1997, French boy band 2Be3 covered the vocal under the proper noun "Toujours là pour toi", which peaked at No. four in France and No. 12 in Belgium (Wallonia).[84]
  • A grouping of London dance producers called the Rickrollerz made a business firm music cover version of "Never Gonna Give You Upward".[85] In May 2008, the track entered the UK Society Charts at no. 22.
  • In 1988, Hong Kong artist Rosanne Lui covered the song under the proper name "一厢情愿" (lit. wishful thinking) which was featured in her album "文明浪族" (English: Modernistic Cult). [86]
  • In 2008, Barry Manilow did a cover of the vocal, which was featured in his cover album, The Greatest Songs of the Eighties.

See likewise

  • Rickrolling
  • List of acknowledged singles by year in the United Kingdom
  • Listing of Billboard Hot 100 number-1 singles of 1988
  • List of Cash Box Peak 100 number-1 singles of 1988
  • Listing of Dutch Acme 40 number-one singles of 1987
  • Listing of number-ane adult contemporary singles of 1988 (U.S.)
  • List of number-one dance singles of 1988 (U.South.)
  • Listing of number-one singles in Australia during the 1980s
  • List of number-one singles from the 1980s (New Zealand)
  • List of number-one singles of 1988 (Canada)
  • List of number-1 hits of 1987 (Germany)
  • Listing of number-one songs in Norway
  • List of number-ane singles and albums in Sweden
  • List of number-1 singles of 1987 (Kingdom of spain)
  • List of Britain Singles Chart number ones of the 1980s
  • VG-lista 1964 to 1994

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