Rick rolled theme is 35 years old
NEW YORK (AP) How does Rick Astley handle one of his songs being part of the biggest internet meme of all time? He rolls with it, obviously.
Listen, lets face it, Never Gonna Give You Up has sort of become something else, he says. The video and the song have drifted off into the ether and become something else, and Im ever so grateful for it.
That song turns 35 this year and is still very much alive, buoyed by a second chapter as a gentle joke wherein someone baits you with an enticing online link, which points instead to the video for this 1987 dance-pop smash. Its called Rickrolling.
Thirty-five years later, Astley is singing it this summer on tour with New Kids on the Block, Salt-N-Pepa and En Vogue for the 57-date The Mixtape Tour 2022. A remastered version of his 1987 debut album also has been released featuring, of course, Never Gonna Give You Up.
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