/
1x
Culture

Watch Rick Astley sing “Never Gonna Give You Up” with a 200-person choir in Toronto

By Toronto Life
Add Toronto Life(opens in a new tab)
Copy link

A few weeks ago, Toronto’s sing-along society Choir! Choir! Choir! covered Rick Astley’s meme-tastic 1987 hit, “Never Gonna Give You Up,” in the back room of Clinton’s Tavern. In a video they made that night, choir leader Daveed Goldman invited Astley—whose tour hit the Opera House on April 13—to come join them when he was in town. Well, he did. A couple nights before his gig, Astley popped into Clinton’s and Rickrolled a couple hundred choristers, challenged the Foo Fighters front man to be the choir’s next VIP guest (“Get yourself down here, Mr. Grohl”) and even invited a few singers to back him up at the Opera House later that week. Watch the video above.

Advertisement
Advertisement

More Choir! Choir! Choir!

What Choir! Choir! Choir! co-founder Nobu Adilman loves about the Annex
Culture

What Choir! Choir! Choir! co-founder Nobu Adilman loves about the Annex

Inside the Latest Issue

The July issue of Toronto Life features the monster cottages of Muskoka versus the resistance. Plus, our obsessive coverage of everything that matters now in the city.