He has got even better hair than Morrissey.Absolutely amazing!!

And that in 2023 Rick Astley would be beloved and Morrissey would be a pariah. Life is funny!

Well the internet wasn’t fast enough to Rick Roll efficiently yet

I can't even believe this. this is like a smiths sing-a-long. wow. I love it

They should tour with this... Rick Astley and the Blossoms a new super band

💯

petition for Morrissey to no longer be persona non grata because of his persinal political beliefs

@@ayyleeuz4892So because you don’t agree with someone’s personal beliefs you want them to disappear? What a mug you are.

@@ayyleeuz4892 I think he’s been that for a few years already

@@tdurb0 it has no relevance to performing music, Johnny Marr is far left but that is approved so we're still allowed to see him

can he sing though? He sounds like hes drowning

​@@jfluffydog2110listen to the whole set, he can absolutely sing brilliantly. Don't be daft

@@jfluffydog2110 silly comment

He has a very limited range, but he is also a pro and pulls it of with the help of the audience.

Beautifully worded.

We do!

Cuz of one, memed song?

@@nikobellic570because he’s a great guy and musician.

@@nikobellic570clearly that’s what you think.

@@nikobellic570 Cos he sold 40m records by the time he "retired" 30 years ago but actually never stopped and just perfected his craft...and here here is showing how great he really is.

His energy is incredible and infectious. Bonus points for his singing ability! 😂

It's not him. It's the song. He's awful. It could be Paris Hilton as well. No difference. But he's not trying at all, that's correct. Maybe if he try even a little it would sound not so painfull.

@@user-et7nc4bn9d To be fair, by this stage he was pissed-up.

@@tdurb0 well, still not as much as me after hearing THIS

Morrissey won it without even being there

Ha ha

this actually made me laugh out loud

Best comment in this video thread!

Never giving us up either

You win the Internet's. 😆🤣😆🤣😆

i mean chorus guitar, easy drums and bass... its not that comp. no one hears bass guitar anyways hhaha haha

They were both great

Agreed - that was my 1st thought too! Loved it though! ❤

blossoms is from manchester like the smiths is Manchester DNA

@@muhsinkartvizit ironically enough, even though im a guitarist mainly, i learned to play bass just for this one song initially. the bassline is just so delicately fun to play, and is still to this day a song i prefer to play on bass rather than guitar even though i know both

Yeah. That’s lovely to see. Actually making memories instead of tucking them away on worthless video clips with crappy audio they’ll never watch again.

Glastonbury audience are seriously ahead of any other festival I've seen.

@@larkstonguesinaspic4814 It's only cos there's no phone signal at Glasto.

@@andrew6978 Video Recording!

there is literally no phone signal

Highlight of this year's fest for me thus far! Incredible cover.

In the futuristic dystopia artists who are guilty of wrong think are not allowed sings their own songs at state sponsored festivals

@@booster330 do you mean racism?

Viva Smiths!

@@booster330 he is more then welcome to reform the smiths and go on a reunion tour. He won't but he can whenever he wants to. No one in this future dysopia is stopping him. Unfortunately andy has passed away at this point.

The Smiths live on everytime Morrissey takes to the stage , which is every year. How much does BBC pay you to promote Rick Astley as the few face of the Smiths? Don't you release you're in a dystopia?

@@booster330 yes BBC pays me ten ton trucks full of money to answer to people I d rather kick in the eye. I understand people may not like, or even find offensive to have Rick Astley singing the Smiths. It s their problem. May I remind you Morrissey, since you mentioned him, did drop a line praising Rick for carrying on singing their songs. So it seems your fancy word ‘dystopia’ doesn’t quite apply in this particular case. If you don’t like it, don’t listen. Simple, inn it ?

@@franciscofarinha5034 who says I don't like it? Let him honor moz if that's what he wants to do. And let you praise the new defacto face of the smiths if that's what you want to do. Seems pretty dystopian seeing as how the man who wrote the songs is still singing them to sold out audiences almost every year

@@booster330 another paid BBC commenter here. Astley can sing this better, moz could not sing any Rick Astley song

@@booster330 he wrote the words, mostly, Marr wrote the tunes. Moz is an irrelevance, he likes animals but also likes dangerous racists. He has no place in our world

@firetv2169Former Smiths frontman Morrissey, however, thanked Astley and Blossoms for the tribute shows - writing: “Anything that generates interest in that tired old Smiths warhorse is testimony to the wallop it packed.”

I fkn LOVE Morrisey ❤️

Good bot.@@alightthatnevergoesout

​@@TheBoneohe probably hates you

@@darrenreid5409 Ha, Darren this charming 'man'

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He was already one 👍🏻👍🏻

Let's pull out the tent pegs out and lift the f###ing roof off this place... He certainly did that 👏👏👏👏

Even with this hair 😂, just joking

Imagine a kid in the late 80’s being told by 2023 Morrissey ends up being a bit of a twat and Rick Astley blows Glastonbury away (twice) .

This was absolutely awesome I have renewed respect for the man... I know realise what a talent RA is and also what an amazing job by the blossoms 👏👏👏👏👏

🔥🔥🔥

He certainly was at Glastonbury

❤

I don't know how big the woodsie tent is but it doesn't look small and they packed it out with people outside who couldn't get in... What a performance and delivery of some of the best songs of the Smiths 👏👏👏👏

I was chatting to him (the drummer) on Stockport market recently (it's not really a market it's a bar area) he's a lovely lad, dead humble.

It's sad because Morrissey wouldn't give it that kind of passion and energy.

@@timleocarrigan arguably neither would Morrissey fans, as opposed to Smiths fans, have so much fun seeing Rick perform them. There’s a definite difference between a Smiths fan and a Morrissey fan in 2023.

In the dystopia, history books erase morrisey and replace him with Rick roll Astley

2:49 "FXFUCHKSTHEBOTHOFUS"

They are used to massive festival slots but this tent set had some real magic in it

I think that's because there was a problem with the sound mixing

@@megaham1552 That's a fair explanation and you're probably right, but I'm sticking with my interpretation until the end of days!

he smith-rolled us

Ricks set was great fun as well.. I mean, drumming to ac dc!! And even managing a wallace and grommit reference ( he blamed some drumming mistakes on 'the wrong trousers').

It was so much fun inside that tent I can tell you. I did like the guardians description of ‘radio 6 dads filling the tent 😂’

You see Ricks voice is a lot better,stronger and richer and more melodic than Morriseys.This is the truth,and thats why the Smiths songs sound so much better sung by him.(sorry Morrisey, but they do.)

@@debbieharry387 they might now, the originals are of course much better.

It's official, the Rickonaissance is on!!!

I've seen this often

The audience wasn't inspired.

@@DaveMcIroyoh they were, they put their phones away for an hour of 15 Smiths songs

@@QueenBitch-bj9ds, ok, and what did they create?

@@DaveMcIroy a wonderful moment in history, seldom seen nowadays. Marvellous and Mr Astley appreciated every second of it.

It's because the other musicians are looking at him, they turn when his beat timing goes off & they're like.. wtf lol

True.

In the dystopia Rick Astley sings songs by artists who have been socially banished.

He sounds like a macho Morrissey

@@booster330 bruh you need your medicine

@@booster330 alright now, morissey, no need being bitter.

I didn't like the Smiths or Rick Astley in the 80s, but I flippin' love this!

He'll never be cool though, no matter how hard he tries.... Bloody good set though 😉😄

@@alan-sk7ky Rick Astley has his own brand of cool though, it's a little odd, but Glastonbury famously embraces these kinds of acts, especially on Sunday afternoons when the entire crowd needs a lift from the excesses of the last few days..... I remember Rolf Harris (obviously before the world found out what a horrific monster he was) doing the Sunday set on the main stage back along, and the crowd loved him, even though you'd never describe him as cool in any sort of fashion.

Ha ha! Me too. Was so ready to be a hater! Guilty pleasure instead.

@@alan-sk7kyHe sang with Foo Fighters a while ago, got an arena of Foo Fighters fans singing Never Gonna Give You Up, then does this. He passes the cool test 😊👍🏻 Imagine telling him in 1987 that 36 years later this gig would happen. “Let’s lift this fucking roof off” 😍😂

Excellent Blossoms

Rest well, woman of taste.

Tbf this was great but I also recommend "The Smyths". I must have seen them about six times and they're bang on.

Just can't stop watching, always come back daily to watch the full gig 🎧

This song just hits differently with Rick singing. I too have watched this every day since I first saw it and every time it gives me the exact same feeling, that is artistry at its finest.

Me too

On repeat. It’s so good

Well I've sat down to watch it tonight. Unfortunately it's been removed from I Player and I'm livid! If I'd known it was going to be so brilliant I'd have recorded it. But I didn't know did I! I'm pissed off now 😤

Yes and yesss

I don't even like the Smiths and this is fckin amazing

@@GRMNCVShow is it possible to not like the smiths

@@vertigo10yearsago25 Guess I haven't listened enough

The song is top notch, Rick did well though. Viva Moz!!

You've summed it up perfectly - my younger life just come flooding back to me, so many emotions in one song.

Same for me.

As a gen xer, happy to see younger generations have discovered this beautiful song.

The Smiths live on everytime Morrissey takes to the stage , which is every year. How much does BBC pay you to promote Rick Astley as the new face of the Smiths? Don't you release you're in a dystopia?

​@@RajSharma-lm7qzabsolutely, as a itty bitty gen z I discovered the smiths thanks to this cover, i've been a fan of rick for a long while now (especially his soul and recent stuff) and he introduced me to so much things on music, what a man!

A northern lad singing northerly songs.

its on BBC iplayer

@@warebal4587 Yeah, but only for a limited time and in UK only. It deserves to be shared.

BBC never do, so many great sets lost unless they get archived elsewhere

Almost like a karaoke singer that's made a name for themselves off the back of one song...

@@dr_treborwho's that then?

That was a phenomenal performance, never to be forgotten

Nice

Yessss.. wonderful feeling

it made me cry, this song mean so much to so many people around the world

Me too... How someone has gone from being a guilty pleasure to a badge of honour is impressive 👍

They already did a tour doing this! Maybe they will again after the reception here

Too late bud 😢😅

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No chance I'd miss this.

There is a light that never goes out.

Were they hit by a double decker bus?

To think he composed the whole smith's legacy by the age of 23.. !!

@@andyduncan6215 wow... my usual 'they did it by' is the beatles were under 30 when they split ( maybe ringo 31).. but that's astonishing...

My man Johnny Marr started and broke up the Smiths by the time he was 23. Absolute legend.

E,

Never underestimate Rick

+ The Blossoms??

​@@mikekaraokeTrampled by the crowd last I heard

Nah bruv this is what festivals like glasto are about, people who love music showing love for good music

Did you know that Gen Z listens to the most music released before they were born than any generation prior? I’m glad they found the Smiths.

The Smiths are TIMELESS!!!

you can't be a real Smiths fan !! Using phenomenal, come on, man .

@@flo2474 I'm female, I sometimes use more descriptive language. It's better than great so ........

Listening to their parents music :)

how do you plan to do that?

Yes, let's protect millionaire rick. And let's banish mozza to the long road out to cursed earth. That's how it works, right?

@@booster330 Morrisey literally has an estimated net worth of 50 mil, compared to Rick Astley's estimated 16 mil. And that's ignoring the fact that you sadly think money is the only variable when it comes to wanting to protect someone. So your argument falls flat on all fronts. It's actually sad that there's people that think like you

@@chosone2 Lol@ thinking you're in a position to protect rick Astley . You people really are sheeple😅

@@booster330 Did any of what I commented say anything about me personally wanting to protect Rick Astley? So not only do you fail to make a competent argument, apparently you can't read either.

yes!!! a bunch of times

Fair play to Joe Donovan not over-playing on the drums. You can just tell Blossoms are loving this. The world needs more people like these guys - just having fun and not taking themselves too seriously.

Love this comment. Even just watching it seems the atmosphere was INCREDIBLE. What a great experience you had!

He even did the rolling R ...."crrrrrrrashes into us"😮

Same!

He looks well aged bro!

I think you might need a visit to the optician. He, like every other human, is ageing visibly.

He has his hair. Full points.😊

He has aged, like a fine wine 😍

Yes absolutely yes.

He should team up with Johnny Marr

Yes!!! Would buy the tickets asap

And he'll actually show up to the shows and not quit mid-set.

I'd definitely pay to see that!

I thought it was another banger from Stock, Aitken and Waterman... hence the Rick Astley connection? 😉

@@dellwright1407 Who?

@@edmunddonnelly3881 they wrote for 80s pop acts like Bananarama, Mel & Kim and The Smiths etc.

@@dellwright1407 Never heard of them. I´m pretty sure Marr wrote his own riffs, in any case.

@@edmunddonnelly3881 It was a joke... Rick Astley is here singing a la Morrissey but back in the 80s he was a SA&W act. Very different.