With a big advertising campaign in gear and a US tour on the way, 1980s pop star Rick Astley has no plans to give anything up in 2022. But first, he sportingly looked back at the Rickroll phenomenon, which he still finds hard to explain.

The 55-year-old singer told the Daily News that he was first Rickrolled – an internet prank where the music video for his 1987 hit Never Gonna Give You Up pops up unexpectedly after someone clicks on an email link they think is for something else – when a friend from Los Angeles sent him an email that included the snippet around the time the trend began 15 years ago.