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Never Gonna Give You Up is a Dance-pop act. Their sound grew out of Colonel Abrams. Those roots explain a lot about how Never Gonna Give You Up arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as It's My Life, Don't You Want Me, Girls Just Want to Have Fun, Losing My Religion and Billie Jean, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Yung Gravy, Foo Fighters, Smash Mouth, Kylie and Bananarama, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 19 connections around Never Gonna Give You Up, reaching back through Colonel Abrams and forward to Yung Gravy. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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"Never Gonna Give You Up" is a pop song by English singer Rick Astley, released on 27 July 1987. The song is widely regarded as Astley's most popular, as well as his signature song, and it is often played at the end of his live concerts. Written and produced by Stock Aitken Waterman, it was released by RCA Records as the first single from Astley's debut studio album, Whenever You Need Somebody (1987), with a music video directed by Simon West.
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Never Gonna Give You Up grew out of Colonel Abrams, shares an orbit with It's My Life, Don't You Want Me, Girls Just Want to Have Fun and Losing My Religion, went on to shape Yung Gravy, Foo Fighters, Smash Mouth and Kylie. 19 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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