Rick Astley C/D

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"Together forever" and "never gonna give you up"

― startrekman, Tuesday, 12 April 2005 02:00 (twenty years ago)

[plugs ears] LA LA LA LA LA

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 02:02 (twenty years ago)

underrated

― strng hlkngtn, Tuesday, 12 April 2005 02:04 (twenty years ago)

he's WHITE?!?!?!? and BRITISH?!?!?!?!!

― jared, Tuesday, 12 April 2005 02:38 (twenty years ago)

being as i have so few stories, i am pretty sure i have posted this one on ILX before, but here goes. Apparently Astley was set to break america, descent air play had followed the Radio station owners realisation of his skin tone, and all was set to 'blow up.' Apparently rick had an epiphany in the car on the way to the airport, and never made the flight. He doesn't give interviews but apparently he hated the buisness and couldn't face the fabled cruelties of the US market. He now lives a quiet, comfortable life in southern france. So for allowing his heart to get in the way of his wallet i say big up your chest Rick! Though obviously dudness music wise.

― lukey (Lukey G), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 10:09 (twenty years ago)

the master of the feet-nailed-to-the-floor style of dancing!

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 10:10 (twenty years ago)

Rick Astley's records were great, some of SAW's best productions, esp. "My Arms Keep Missing You." Even the immediate post-SAW stuff was OK, e.g. the Inner City-goes-pop "Take Me To Your Heart." Not sure that "Cry For Help" was anything other than a cry for help, mind.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 10:11 (twenty years ago)

An NME feature on his fans gave rise to a classic quote from one of their now diminished number: 'Pop wi'out Rick is like chips wi'out gravy'.

― M Carty (mj_c), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 10:27 (twenty years ago)

At least he's not on that Give Me My Career Back thing on ITV on Saturdays. What was Shakin' Stevens thinking of? Was the tax bill really that high?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 10:28 (twenty years ago)

"Never Gonna Give You Up" was (unofficially) re-written for the Stop Clause 28 campaign as "Never Going Underground" ("...cause we're out and proud and fighting...") and performed onstage at a big rally in Manchester by a cast of well-meaning luminaries including the agony aunt for Woman's Weekly (it was a particular delight to see her get her chops round the line "Fuck Jill Knight and all her cronies").

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 10:29 (twenty years ago)

I know for a fact that he did come to America at least once though because I saw him shooting the video for "It Would Take a Strong, Strong Man"! it was about two in the morning a few blocks from Gorky's in L.A., some friends & I had just had late dinner & coffee and we ran across a blocked-off, lit-up, fog-machined street and sat down to watch. When they finished the verse we applauded and he gave a very friendly theatrical bow. Then yesterday I heard that song in the bank, and today this thread. Rick Astley is plotting his comeback via microwaves in the radio towers or summat n'est pas

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 10:34 (twenty years ago)

he has already assumed the form of clay aitken

― strng hlkngtn, Tuesday, 12 April 2005 10:42 (twenty years ago)

I am beset by haters, and my boils vex

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 11:02 (twenty years ago)

I am not a hater, but nonetheless I call Nick Lowe to thread.

― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 12:03 (twenty years ago)

That "All Men Are Liars" is a terrible sneer of a song, worse than Alan Sherman's "I Hate The Beatles."

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 12:11 (twenty years ago)

"Together Forever" was my 8th grade graduation theme song.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 13:25 (twenty years ago)

Classic. Never Gonna Give You Up and Together Forever have probably spent a combined 200 or so hours stuck in my head.

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 14:10 (twenty years ago)

He was great! One of my favorite SAW acts.

― Leon WK (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 14:33 (twenty years ago)

Some OK productions and songs. Astley himself was of course dud beyound any reason of doubt.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 14:35 (twenty years ago)

And why is that?

― Leon WK (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 14:36 (twenty years ago)

Rick Astley - Sleeping
Euro Only 8 Track Remix CD Single

1 Radio Edit

2 Tee's Radio Mix

3 UK Radio Edit

4 UK Radio Mix

5 Tiefschwarz Wake Up Mix

6 Tee's Freeze Radio Mix

7 Tee's Extended Mix

8 HiFi Crash Remix 2

― ---- (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 14:37 (twenty years ago)

Hehehehe.

Great, of course, for those early singles. Actually had more going for him on the SAW front than Bananarama eventually did.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 14:38 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

http://data.tumblr.com/tTwyDq8vv3q800cpEcZVEymL_500.jpg

― mookieproof, Monday, 7 January 2008 16:35 (eighteen years ago)

That's pretty great for a boring Monday.

― call all destroyer, Monday, 7 January 2008 17:45 (eighteen years ago)

the first time I heard his voice I thought the tape was playing back too slowly...then I realized that was just the way he sang

WE'RE NO STRANGERS TO LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE....

― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 04:06 (eighteen years ago)

the rick at 45/kylie at 33 thing is uncanny

― electricsound, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 04:08 (eighteen years ago)

i love, love, love "It Would Take A Strong Strong Man"

― Billy Pilgrim, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 04:25 (eighteen years ago)

http://images-cache.cd-wow.com/images/1/1165638034_big.jpg

― PappaWheelie V, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 04:29 (eighteen years ago)

he looks like Thomas Hayden Church in that picture...or vice versa

― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 04:55 (eighteen years ago)

"you wrong biscuit buying slut!!"

― electricsound, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 05:10 (eighteen years ago)

What could possibly worse than an English version of Michael McDonald?

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 05:40 (eighteen years ago)

I wouldn't define "Take Me To Your Heart" as very post-SAW. I actually think they produced that one, and Phil Harding - who produced most of that album - was a SAW protege.

― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 09:52 (eighteen years ago)

eight months pass...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7646807.stm

oh, you wacky japesters

― Glans Christian Christian christian Christian Andersen (MPx4A), Thursday, 2 October 2008 09:48 (seventeen years ago)

:-( aw man i was hoping it was gonna be a rickroll. i love those things. lol!

― cameron carr, Thursday, 2 October 2008 17:29 (seventeen years ago)

two months pass...

This is going to work, isn't it?: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=37655682127

― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 16 December 2008 15:33 (seventeen years ago)

"She Wants To Dance With Me."

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 16 December 2008 15:38 (seventeen years ago)

Nah. Top 10 though, surely.

― Go Go Padgett Binoculars (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Tuesday, 16 December 2008 15:39 (seventeen years ago)

And at number ten... http://www.play.com/Music/MP3-Download-Track/6-/TopSellers.html?dpr=0&dpr=0&dpr=0

― James Mitchell, Thursday, 18 December 2008 05:44 (seventeen years ago)

how come no one posted the literal version here yet?

― Zeno, Thursday, 18 December 2008 07:24 (seventeen years ago)

Genius.

― ilxor, Thursday, 18 December 2008 07:29 (seventeen years ago)

What happened with the scheme where people were trying to get Astley voted as the greatest artist ever on MTV Music Awards? I guess it didn't work?

― Tuomas, Thursday, 18 December 2008 07:39 (seventeen years ago)

Rick Astley is plotting his comeback via microwaves in the radio towers or summat n'est pas

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Tuesday, April 12, 2005 5:34 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark

i wonder if this is what 'thomas tallis' had in mind

― K DEF FROM REAL LIVE (deej), Thursday, 18 December 2008 09:12 (seventeen years ago)

What happened with the scheme where people were trying to get Astley voted as the greatest artist ever on MTV Music Awards? I guess it didn't work?
― Tuomas, Thursday, December 18, 2008 7:39 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

MTV EUROPE MUSIC AWARDS 2008

Most Addictive Track
Pink - So What

Headliner (live performance)
Tokio Hotel

Rock Out
30 Seconds to Mars (pictured)

Best Album
Britney Spears - Blackout

New Act
Katy Perry

Best Video Star
30 Seconds To Mars

Best Act Ever
Rick Astley

Ultimate Urban
Kanye West

Artists' Choice
Lil' Wayne

Act of 2008
Britney Spears

Ultimate Legend
Sir Paul McCartney

Europe's Favourite Act
Emre Aydin (Turkey)

― Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 18 December 2008 09:38 (seventeen years ago)

Oh, somehow I thought it would've made bigger news or something... But I guess it still worked, nicely done.

― Tuomas, Thursday, 18 December 2008 09:51 (seventeen years ago)

six months pass...

Berlin – Best known for his 80's pop hit "Never Gonna Give You Up," Singer / Songwriter Rick Astley has passed away at age 43. Astley's body was found at the Angleterre Hotel in Berlin, after an ambulance responded to a 112 call from his bedroom. In this call Astley reported chest pain, shortness of breath, and nausea.
Paramedics found Astley unconscious in his hotel room. He was rushed to Charité hospital and pronounced dead at 12:32 am, June 30th. The cause of death is unconfirmed.
Astley was in the middle of a concert tour that would end in late August of 2009. He was to return to the United Kingdom at that time.

http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-287981

― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 30 June 2009 08:34 (sixteen years ago)

RIP

― rembrandt what (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 30 June 2009 08:45 (sixteen years ago)

Believe it's a "joke". FFS.

― Pimp My Hearse (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 30 June 2009 08:45 (sixteen years ago)

im pretty shook right now - i grew up dressing like him and imitating his dance moves. i'm sure 99% of ilx had the same experience.

― rembrandt what (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 30 June 2009 08:46 (sixteen years ago)

you tards

― rural juror (get bent), Tuesday, 30 June 2009 08:49 (sixteen years ago)

this isnt funny & no one should joke about this ever

― zzz (deej), Tuesday, 30 June 2009 08:51 (sixteen years ago)

hopefully he can find the peace that was so elusive to him on earth

― rembrandt what (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 30 June 2009 08:51 (sixteen years ago)

The current wave of fake celebrity deaths continue, and tonight’s entry comes to us from Rick Astley
According to CNN’s iReport, Astley’s body was found at the Angleterre Hotel in Berlin after an ambulance responded to an emergency call from his hotel room. Astley was found unconscious in his hotel bedroom and was unable to be resuscitated. He was pronounced dead on the scene.
Unlike previous fake celebrity deaths, the use of CNN’s iReport gives this a little more legitimacy up front, at least if you don’t know how iReport works. iReport is open to all submissions without pre-publication review: I could submit a story saying Rick Astley is dead at the hands of an advanced civilization of alien music lovers and it would be published until such time CNN pulled it it.
Rick Astley is not dead, Rick Astley has not died, Rick Astley was not attacked by aliens either.

http://www.inquisitr.com/27748/rick-astley-dead/

― rural juror (get bent), Tuesday, 30 June 2009 08:52 (sixteen years ago)

That link doesn't work.

― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 30 June 2009 08:54 (sixteen years ago)

they've been playing astley on the radio all night

― rembrandt what (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 30 June 2009 08:55 (sixteen years ago)

Still no official denial.

RIP.

― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 30 June 2009 08:56 (sixteen years ago)

For some reason I'm sensitive to hilarious stories about blokes in their early 40s having heart attacks.

― Pimp My Hearse (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 30 June 2009 08:57 (sixteen years ago)

RIP noodle vague

― rembrandt what (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 30 June 2009 09:00 (sixteen years ago)

You'll be old one day, sonny.

― Pimp My Hearse (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 30 June 2009 09:01 (sixteen years ago)

Rick Astley's dad is on CNN plugging Blu Ray technology.

― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 30 June 2009 09:03 (sixteen years ago)

jammin' with billy corgan up in heaven now

― buzza, Tuesday, 30 June 2009 09:54 (sixteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN75im_us4k

There's a gold in them tharre mash-up.

― Cunga, Monday, 20 July 2009 17:39 (sixteen years ago)

lol

― (*ﾟーﾟ)θ L(。･＿･)　　　°~ヾ(･ε･ *) (Steve Shasta), Monday, 20 July 2009 18:00 (sixteen years ago)

This thread was actually Rickrolled from the very first post :)

― Geir Hongro, Monday, 20 July 2009 18:02 (sixteen years ago)

I don't think that's funny at all.. and it's not even the original recording from Teen Spirit.. it's some guy playing it in his bedroom.

― billstevejim, Monday, 20 July 2009 18:13 (sixteen years ago)

It sounds like "Smells Like Nirvana."

― billstevejim, Monday, 20 July 2009 18:13 (sixteen years ago)

my brother rickrolled his own wedding over the weekend (cut to "never gonna" in the middle of a norah jones song), and all his nerd-ass friends rushed the dancefloor. i stayed up there and danced because i do like the song, but it was all pretty ridiculous.

― trife's rich padgettry (some dude), Monday, 20 July 2009 19:11 (sixteen years ago)

wow

― mustafa moe money (deej), Monday, 20 July 2009 23:29 (sixteen years ago)

this was even mentioned in the Metro today.
don't get what all the fuss is about its pretty crap even for a bootleg.
must have been a slow news day.

― mark e, Tuesday, 21 July 2009 08:16 (sixteen years ago)

twelve years pass...

Together Forever > Never Gonna Give You Up

― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Sunday, 17 October 2021 14:30 (four years ago)

Thinking back fondly to a couple of years ago when I rickrolled an industrial site on April 1.

Short version: there’s a morning meeting that the different maintenance groups have where they pull up a dashboard & click into the day’s new work requests. I went in the night before & changed the button to a rickroll link.

I wasn’t on site at the time, but apparently it was a smash hit with everyone under 50. The senior people were bewildered and angry. Result!

― New Zealand, with that hottie (hardcore dilettante), Sunday, 17 October 2021 15:49 (four years ago)

Together Foever is burned into my mind from my brief early-teen period listening to top 40 radio in 1987-88.

― Typo? Negative! (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 17 October 2021 16:18 (four years ago)

Found my sunglasses in the rolled up sleeves of my trench coat

― calstars, Sunday, 17 October 2021 16:20 (four years ago)

Together Forever > Never Gonna Give You Up

― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal),

It Would Take a Strong, Strong Man > Together Forever >>>>> Never Gonna Give You Up

― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 17 October 2021 16:26 (four years ago)

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