Awesome / Rick Astley

• Rickrolling the entire U.S.^note and possibly even all over the world, since the parade is shown annually to those serving overseas on the Armed Forces Network's AFN Prime Atlantic and Pacific channels on the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Read about it here.
• Rick Astley covering "Uptown Funk"? It happened!
• His comeback album 50 became Astley's first #1 in his native UK since his debut smash "Whenever You Need Somebody".
• Accepting an invitation of Toronto's Choir! Choir! Choir! group and singing with them.
• In 2017 at the Summer Sonic Festival in Tokyo, Japan, he was invited on stage by the Foo Fighters. Not knowing why they invited him, he says he met them just a few minutes before, Dave Grohl asks him to sing "Never Gonna Give You Up" while they play the riff of "Smells like Teen Spirit". They did it with no practice and it still turned out great
• A user on Reddit by the name of MalleableDuck managed to rickroll the man himself.
• In 2020, he did a beautiful cover of the Sia song "Titanium".
• As of 2021, the music video for "Never Gonna Give You Up" has reached 1 billion views on YouTube, ensuring the meme lives on and that the Internet is never gonna give it up!
• While it is for an ad for InsurAAAnce, we finally got a 2022 version of "Never Gonna Give You Up".
• He opened the Pyramid Stage of the 2023 Glastonbury Festival and even played an entire cover set of The Smiths songs to equally glowing reviews of both sets. (Morrissey himself approved of the cover set when it was done two years earlier.) ^note  It helps that He is a fan of Morrissey's, and in his own words, "We're very tolerant of each others foibles, and that's made him a good friend over the years". Aw...