No, Stock Aitken Waterman wrote, “Never gonna give you up.” They were a British songwriting team that created many hits in the 1980s. Rick Astley performed the song but didn’t write it.

Rick Astley burst onto the pop scene in the late ’80s, seemingly out of nowhere. The earnest, feel-good vibes of his debut single, “Never Gonna Give You Up,” clinched the No. 1 spot in 25 ...

Rick Astley, the English singer/songwriter known for "Never Gonna Give You Up" and "Together Forever," spoke about the first time he was 'Rickrolled.' ...

A remastered version of his 1987 debut album also has been released featuring, of course, “Never Gonna Give You Up.” “I’m never going to have a song as big as that ever, and I kind of knew ...

"Never Gonna Give You Up," originally released as a single when Astley was 21, turned 35 years old on July 27, and Astley made sure to honor the number in a Twitter post he wrote on its birthday.

R ick Astley was just 21 years old when he recorded his 1987 hit, "Never Gonna Give You Up." It spent two weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, and charted for 24 more weeks.

Rick Astley scored a worldwide No. 1 in 1987 with "Never Gonna Give You Up,'' but five years later, walked away from the business to raise his daughter. Now, he's returned as a new kind of singer ...

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.

While he remains connected to “Never Gonna Give You Up,” and has celebrated his catalog during recent U.S. tours with acts like New Kids on the Block, Astley rarely looks back, rendering the ...

Best known for his 1987 smash “Never Gonna Give You Up” — as well as a certain Internet phenomenon that song’s video eventually spawned — Astley appeared not to notice Niall Horan ...