Rick Astley of ‘Never Gonna Give You Up’ fame talks about life after becoming a meme. By Mikael Wood . ... The meme started gathering steam around 2007 but has shown a stubborn resistance ever ...

Rick Astley celebrates his 1987 song "Never Gonna Give You Up" reaching one billion streams on Spotify. The song gained refound popularity in the early 2000s thanks to the Rick-Rolling meme.

Astley, 55, celebrated the milestone in a tweet, saying in a video, “So I’ve just been told that ‘Never Gonna Give You Up’ has been streamed a billion times on YouTube. That is mind-blowing.

Rick has rolled into YouTube’s billion-views club. The official video for Rick Astley’s 1987 hit “Never Gonna Give You Up” — uploaded almost 12 years ago — surpassed 1 billion lifetime ...

Rick Astley, the English singer behind the viral track "Never Gonna Give You Up" and the Rickroll trend that followed, says he's never pulled the prank on anyone — but has nothing but ...

Never gonna give you up: The surprising resilience of the Rickroll, 10 years later As the Rickroll nears its 10th birthday, we celebrate the meme that just won't go away.

Rick Astley's 1987 hit 'Never Gonna Hit You Up' has just hit one billion views on YouTube, all thanks to that dastardly "Rickroll" meme. The 1987 music video was uploaded to YouTube 12 years ago.