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Rick Astley: 50

Maura Johnston, The Village Voice, 6 October 2016

SAY THE NAME Rick Astley in 2016 and you'll probably get a reply involving his 1987 smash 'Never Gonna Give You Up', a brightly spangled devotional transformed into an internet punchline somewhere in the late 2000s.

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