Never Gonna Give You Up - Rick Astley - MP3 instrumental karaoke

Rick Astley hit the jackpot with his debut 1987 single "Never Gonna Give You Up," topping the charts all over the globe and hanging around at the Number 1 spot in the UK for five weeks and reaching Number 1 on the US Billboard Hot 100. Written by pop powerhouse Stock Aitken Waterman (Kylie Minogue, Dead or Alive, Bananarama, Sonia, Jason Donovan), the synthesizer-heavy dance-pop jewel song also won Best British Single at the 1988 Brit Awards. Rick Astley was just 21 when he performed the '80s classic, with its effective and unforgettable chorus: "Never gonna give you up / Never gonna let you down / Never gonna run around and desert you / Never gonna make you cry / Never gonna say goodbye / Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you." Twenty years later, "Never Gonna Give You Up" was reborn as an Internet meme, started on 4Chan on then on YouTube, known as "rickrolling" that saw misleading hyperlinks links redirect the viewer to the song's music video.