* 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[[/note]] on the UsefulNotes/MacysThanksgivingDayParade. Read about it [[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/27/macys-parade-rickrolled-r_n_146896.html here]].
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6HAIueUK9U 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".
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJRsWJqDjFE 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 ''Music/FooFighters''. 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 [[Music/{{Nirvana}} "Smells like Teen Spirit"]]. They did it with no practice and it still [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ed2HJTJw4I turned out great]]
* A user on Website/{{Reddit}} by the name of [=MalleableDuck=] managed to rickroll the man himself.
* In 2020, he did a beautiful cover of the Music/{{Sia}} song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_vnEHDjfZ8 "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 [[{{Pun}} never gonna give it up]]!
* While it is for an ad for [=InsurAAAnce=], we finally got a ''[[https://youtu.be/GtL1huin9EE 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 Music/TheSmiths 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... [[/note]]