Together Forever (Rick Astley song)

1988 single by Rick Astley

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| rev1score = 4/5 and has occasionally been used as an alternate Rickroll song. In 2019, Astley recorded and released a 'Reimagined' version of the song for his album The Best of Me, which features a new piano arrangement.

Michele Kirsch from NME said, "Wipe out the vocal on this one, Karoake style, and you can sing "Never Gonna Give You Up" which is fine by us." She also felt Astley "adds a human touch to all this computerized madness. That's fidelity he's singing about. He's the milk and sugar in the bitter tea of Life." Colin Irwin from Number One wrote, "The song itself is another of those unforgettable little tunes which Mr Stock, Mr Aitken and Mr Waterman write in their sleep. [ ] Ricks sings his darling little heart out and it all sounds brill to me." Eleanor Levy of Record Mirror considered "Together Forever" as being "one more variation on the 'fast one', adding that the formula used for "Never Gonna Give You Up" "is repeated for the umpteenth time and begins to sound tired and not particularly emotional". In a review published in Smash Hits, Patsy Kensit considered it is "not as good as "Never Gonna Give You Up"", to which it sounds similar but with a different chorus, but added that "as far as that goes in a disco people don't care". Retrospectively, in 2021, British magazine Classic Pop ranked "Together Forever" number 20 in their list of "Top 40 Stock/Aitken/Waterman songs", naming it, along with "I Should Be So Lucky", "another SAW pop masterpiece".

In the UK, "Together Forever" started at number nine on 27 February 1988, and reached number two for consecutive two weeks, being blocked from the number one slot by another SAW song, "I Should Be So Lucky", and charted for nine weeks, and celebrating the announcement of the Whenever You Need Somebody remastered edition studio album, the music video has been upgraded to 4K as of March 2022, restoring the music video and switching the Lover's Leap remix audio back to the album version when the original music video used the 7" single version. In addition, the single was also reissued as a digital EP on 23 March 2022, which also includes the "reimagined" version from Astley's compilation album The Best of Me.

The song has been covered by artists such as José Galisteo, Jolina Magdangal, and Nina Nesbitt. The Voice coaches Blake Shelton, John Legend, Kelly Clarkson and Nick Jonas covered the song to celebrate the show's 20th season, with Astley calling their version of the song "incredible." The song was used as a demo on the Casio CA 100 electronic keyboard.