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1987 single past Rick Astley

"Never Gonna Requite You Up"
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Unmarried by Rick Astley
from the album Whenever Y'all Need Somebody
Released 27 July 1987[1]
Recorded Oct 1986[2]
Genre
  • Dance-pop[3] [4]
  • bluish-eyed soul[v]
Length
  • 3:35 (album version)
  • iii:32 (seven" vocal mix)
  • 3:thirty (instrumental version)
Characterization
  • RCA
  • PWL
Songwriter(south) Stock Aitken Waterman
Producer(s) Stock Aitken Waterman
Rick Astley singles chronology
"When Yous Gonna"
(1987) 		"Never Gonna Requite You Up"
(1987) 		"Learning to Live (Without Your Dear)"
(1987)
Sound sample

"Never Gonna Requite You Upwardly"

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Music video
"Never Gonna Give You Upward" on YouTube

"Never Gonna Give Y'all Upwards" is the debut single recorded by English singer and songwriter Rick Astley, released on 27 July 1987. It is one of Astley's near famous songs. It was written and produced by Stock Aitken Waterman, and was released every bit the first unmarried from Astley's debut album, Whenever You Need Somebody (1987). The song was a worldwide number-i hit, initially in the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland in 1987, where information technology stayed at the meridian of the chart for five weeks and was the all-time-selling single of that year. Information technology somewhen topped the charts in 25 countries, including the Usa and West Germany.[half-dozen] The song won Best British Single at the 1988 Brit Awards.

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

In 2019, Astley recorded and released a 'Piano' version of the vocal for his album The Best of Me, which features a new piano arrangement.[8]

Production [edit]

"Never Gonna Give You Up" 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.[9]

Mike Stock stated that the Colonel Abrams hitting "Trapped" (1985) was a big influence on "Never Gonna Give Y'all Upwards", saying: "For Rick Astley'southward song I didn't want it to sound like Kylie or Bananarama so I looked at the Colonel Abrams track 'Trapped' and recreated that syncopated bassline in a fashion that suited our song."[10]

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

Music video [edit]

The 1987 music video for "Never Gonna Requite You Up" was directed by Simon West. It was filmed in London, largely effectually the London Borough of Harrow.[12] Since being uploaded to YouTube on 24 October 2009, the video has received over 1.1 billion views; it surpassed that milestone on 28 July 2021, 34 years and 1 day afterward the song was released.[13] [14]

Original success [edit]

On 12 March 1988, "Never Gonna Requite You Upwards" reached number one in the American Billboard Hot 100[fifteen] after having been played past resident DJ, Larry Levan, at the Paradise Garage in 1987.[16] The single topped the charts in 25 countries worldwide.[6]

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

Rickrolling [edit]

"Never Gonna Give You Up" is the bailiwick of an Net meme known as "rickrolling" involving misleading links (commonly shortened URLs) redirecting to the song'south music video.[19] Originally started past users on 4chan, by May 2007, the practice had achieved notoriety on the Internet, and information technology increased in popularity after its use as a 2008 April Fools' Day joke by various 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.[20] "I think information technology'south merely one of those odd things where something gets picked upwards and people run with it", Astley told the Los Angeles Times in late March 2008, adding: "That's what's brilliant nigh the Net."[21]

Astley also appeared in the 2008 Macy's Thanksgiving Twenty-four hour period Parade, interrupting a song performed by those on a float promoting the Cartoon Network programme Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends with a lipsynched performance of "Never Gonna Give You Up".

In that location were reports that despite the video garnering millions of hits on YouTube, Astley earned near no money from the online miracle, 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 also been paid "a chunk of money" past Virgin to appear in a commercial and for an advent at the Macy'southward Thanksgiving Parade.[23]

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

Affect and legacy [edit]

Assessing the status of the track as Stock Aitken Waterman'south biggest and most enduring striking, composer Mike Stock confessed he struggled to completely understand why the song had struck such a chord, but suggested its massive success was down to a combination of the vocal, the singer, and the international clout of record characterization RCA.[11]

Fourth dimension Out listed "Never Gonna Give Y'all Up" at number 33 in their The 50 best '80s songs listing in 2018, adding, "Those synthesized strings, that thumping boots-and-pants beat, Astley'due south weirdly robust croon and his romantic-wooing-as-used-motorcar-salesman pitch ('You wouldn't get this from whatsoever other guy')… It all adds upwards to iii-and-a-one-half of the almost effervescent minutes in the '80s canon."[25]

The song was reportedly played every bit office of a psychological campaign to convince Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega to give up during the United States invasion of Panama in 1989,[26] along with other songs such as the Clash'due south 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 4 in their list of Top 40 Stock Aitken Waterman songs in 2021.[29]

The Emmy Award-winning sitcom Ted Lasso featured the vocal prominently in the flavor 2 episode "No Weddings and a Funeral", including a scene where Rebecca Welton (played past Hannah Waddingham) begins to sing information technology in the middle of her male parent's funeral. Astley himself commented of the episode, "Waddingham...did an amazing, incredible job. It was so emotional, so moving, and so incredible. People have said they fifty-fifty cried (during) the church building scene."[30]

Runway listings [edit]

7" single
  1. "Never Gonna Requite You Upwardly" (7" Vocal mix) – 3:32
  2. "Never Gonna Give Y'all Up" (Instrumental) – 3:thirty
12" maxi
  1. "Never Gonna Give You Up" (Block mix) – 5:46
  2. "Never Gonna Give Y'all Up" (Instrumental) – 6:19
  3. "Never Gonna Give You lot Upwards" – iii:32
  4. "Never Gonna Requite You Up" (Escape to New York mix) – 7:01
  5. "Never Gonna Give Y'all Up" (Escape from Newton mix) – 6:23
12" maxi
  1. "Never Gonna Requite Y'all Upwards" (Cake mix) – 5:48
  2. "Never Gonna Requite You lot Upward" (Instrumental) – 6:21
  3. "Never Gonna Give You lot Up" – 3:32
12" single
  1. "Never Gonna Give You Up" (Escape from Newton mix) – 6:30
  2. "Never Gonna Give You Up" (Escape to New York mix) – seven:00

On 29 July 2021, to celebrate 1 billion views on YouTube, Rick Astley released a express and numbered seven" blue vinyl. Just 2500 were signed and sold.[31] [32]

  1. "Never Gonna Give You Up" (7" Song mix) – 3:32
  2. "Never Gonna Give Y'all Up" (Pianoforte) – iii:30

Charts [edit]

Certifications and sales [edit]

Comprehend versions [edit]

  • In 1997, French boy band 2Be3 covered the song under the name "Toujours là pour toi", which peaked at No. iv in French republic and No. 12 in Belgium (Wallonia).[84]
  • A grouping of London dance producers called the Rickrollerz made a house music cover version of "Never Gonna Requite You Up".[85] In May 2008, the rail entered the UK Club Charts at no. 22.
  • In 1988, Hong Kong creative person Rosanne Lui covered the vocal nether the name "一厢情愿" (lit. wishful thinking) which was featured in her album "文明浪族" (English: Modern Cult). [86]

See also [edit]

  • Rickrolling
  • List of acknowledged singles past year in the United Kingdom
  • Listing of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 1988
  • List of Cash Box Top 100 number-one singles of 1988
  • List of Dutch Peak twoscore number-one singles of 1987
  • List of number-one developed contemporary singles of 1988 (U.S.)
  • List of number-one dance singles of 1988 (U.S.)
  • Listing of number-1 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 (Deutschland)
  • List of number-one songs in Norway
  • List of number-1 singles and albums in Sweden
  • Listing of number-one singles of 1987 (Espana)
  • List of Great britain Singles Chart number ones of the 1980s
  • VG-lista 1964 to 1994

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External links [edit]

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