It was a case of “Never Gonna Give You Up” for school children in Netherfield after they mounted a campaign on Twitter in the hope of getting a chance to sing with 80s pop icon Rick Astley.
The star responded to the campaign and promised to give Class 8 pupils from Netherfield Primary School the opportunity to share the mic when he visited the city as part of his tour.
The children travelled to meet Rick at Nottingham’s Royal Concert hall – ahead of his gig there on Tuesday – where they were lucky enough to get a tour behind the scenes and gather some autographs.
The children had selected Rick’s smash hit “Never Gonna Give You Up” as their class song for 2018 and were delighted when they got the chance to sing it with him on stage during the visit.
Teacher James Payne explained how the visit came about.
He said: “We were looking for a new class song to sing in assemblies and my class chose Rick’s song because it fit in nicely with our positive mind-set learning and they really enjoyed singing it.
“We realised afterwards that Rick happened to be in Nottingham on the day of our assembly and thought it would be great if he could pop along, so we stated a campaign asking him to meet us.”
The entire class wrote letters to Rick, emailed his website and were even on the radio calling for the 80s star to meet them.
Among the pleas for this ‘once in a lifetime’ visit, the youngsters wrote: “We weren’t born in 1987 but we all know you’re the best singer ever.”
