How Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up Went from 80s Pop

Rick Astley fan at the turn of the millennium. I was in high school at the time, and it was on a weekend-morning cable-TV binge that I happened first to hear his music — albeit just a few seconds of it — on a commercial for one of those order-by-phone nostalgia compilations.

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Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up, an art print by Stephen

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