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I was working for Virgin Records at the time and Rick Astley (post his euro-pop time) had just released a beautiful record called Free. The first single was title “Cry for Help” and I went to deliver ...

Never gonna make you cry (5) Never gonna say goodbye..." went one response, alongside a GIF of singer Rick Astley. To be clear, I did not laugh — but I appreciated the joke. "Rickrolling" has ...

In 1987, Rick Astley became a global pop sensation with massive hits like Never Gonna Give You Up and Together Forever. But by 1993, at the age of 27, he decided he was done and quit the music ...

The link that followed redirected to the music video for Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up” — an internet bait-and-switch prank called “rickrolling” that was popular in the in the ...

I don’t know what the police are doing,” he pleaded. His wife, Rofiat Ogunbode, also appealed to Nigerians for help. She said, “My son was supposed to graduate this April, but he has been ...

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Unlike me, why am I here? What is going on? It’s a cry for help. ‘When I got to the hospital, I get checked and they checked me for heart palpitations and all kinds of scans.’ The star was ...