Rick Astley has described the viral infamy he has achieved due to the "Rickroll" meme as akin to living "a double life." The meme, which dates back to around 2007, involves pretending to direct ...

The star, whose hit continues to live through ‘Rick-rolling,’ is on the road with NKOTB, En Vogue and Salt-N-Pepa — and loves ...

Rick Astley may be cemented in music history for the viral “Rickrolling” prank, but he’s never actually pulled it himself. Two decades after the English singer’s iconic track “Never Gonna Give You Up” ...

Tons of musicians are jumping on the Chappell Roan bandwagon, including unlikely contemporaries like Rick Astley. The singer, best known for his viral hit “Never Gonna Give You Up” that became a ...

Last week, we explored the origin of the “Rick Roll,” a meme that evolved from Rick Astley’s 1987 hit song, “Never Gonna Give You Up.” Since the music video resurfaced as the meme in 2007, the ...

If you only know English '80s pop star Rick Astley as the man behind the song in the RickRolling meme, his newly released cover of the Foo Fighters' "Everlong" will prove to you that he's so much more ...

Anyone who's ever surfed the web has probably been victim to the global Rickrolling prank, where you click a link only to be taken to the 1980s hit "Never Gonna Give You Up." It was Rick Astley's ...

Rickrolling is a stately, venerated tradition. It’s an artifact of simpler times, when a solid internet meme could consist of simply tricking someone into accidentally opening up a video of a tidily ...

NEW YORK — 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, let’s face it, ‘Never Gonna Give You Up’ has sort of ...

Reddit shared today that its most upvoted post of 2020 was a picture from 1989 posted by Rick Astley, the living meme himself. Reddit’s Year in Review blogs can be a good insight into broader internet ...