“Never Gonna Give You Up” by Rick Astley was released on 27 July 1987.

Quick Scoop

  • The song is Rick Astley’s debut single, put out by RCA Records in the summer of 1987.
  • It appears on his first album, Whenever You Need Somebody , released later that same year.
  • Decades later it became a huge internet meme through “rickrolling,” keeping the track a trending cultural reference well into the 2020s.

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