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In 1971, Ocean released the singles ‘Nashville Rain’ and ‘Sun in the Morning’ on Spark Records, under the name of Les Charles. He also fronted the band Scorched Earth for two years, and released ‘On The Run’ along with ‘Let’s Put Our Emotions in Motion’ in 1974. The Trinidadian and Tobagonian British recording artist took his stage name ‘Billy Ocean’ from the Ocean Estate, Stepney in London’s East End, where he was situated at the time.
Ocean recorded his debut album ‘Billy Ocean’ in 1976 and released the single ‘Love Really Hurts Without You’ which charted at number two in the Official UK Singles Chart whilst also achieving a number 22 spot on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. He began to see huge success during the 1980s; in 1985, the single ‘Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run)’, on the album ‘Suddenly’, won Ocean the Grammy Award for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance. Another single ‘Loverboy’ from the same album also featured in the opening scene of the UK BBC One TV series ‘Casualty in 1986, and achieved a number two position in the USA.
In 1986, Ocean released the album ‘Love Zone’ which included the popular single ‘When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going’. It topped the UK charts and achieved a number two position in the US, whilst the single ‘There’ll Be Sad Songs (To Make You Cry)’ listed at number one in the US. In 1988, Ocean followed up ‘Love Zone’ with another album ‘Tear Down These Walls’ which featured the number one single ‘Get Outta My Dreams, Get into My Car’; the album achieved platinum success. Ocean has gone on to release a number of albums, one of which was the ‘Greatest Hits’ collection in 1989, along with ‘Emotions In Motion’ in 2002 and ‘Here You Are’ in 2013.
Billy Ocean performed at prestigious settings such as Live Aid Philadelphia US and 80’s Rewind Festival, and can be compared to music artists such as James Ingram, La Toya Jackson and Gregory Abbott. He received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the MOBO Awards in 2010, and became a Companion of the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts in 2011, whilst he featured in the British comedy movie Keith Lemon: The Film during 2012.
Avis
A Billy Ocean concert, like a cool sea breeze, is a perfect refresher to put you in a relaxed mood or revive your spirit back to full health. His shows are guaranteed to be a blast and this is evident from the mass of people who cannot help, but dance and move along to Billy's grooving tunes. He plays with so much charisma and gaiety that it is hard not to be smiling the whole time.
Billy is quite the performer and his stage presence is most definitely an indicator of this. During his shows he is dressed in crisp clean suits often in chill blue and gray colors. His face is elated the whole evening and the rastafarian hair style he now sports perfectly matches the carefree nature of his music.
Billy Ocean's music blends a large amalgamation of styles. He touches on soft rock, reggae, smooth jazz, soul and crooner pop. There is really something that everyone can enjoy. His diverse sound is perhaps what attracts so many fans to his shows. His performance features cruise ship sounding keyboards, upbeat funk riffs, distorted blues licks, both congo and traditional drums, back up singers and a saxophone to top it off. His songs like "Caribbean Queen" and When the "Going Gets Tough, The Tough Gets Going" are played on a sweeping scale. They possibly sound more thematic live than on record. In fact Billy can even strip down the song "Caribbean Queen" to an acoustic format and though it sounds completely different than the original it is equally astounding. Billy's acoustic version of "Suddenly" is also to die for. Billy Ocean has proven that he can just as likely enamor an audience with just his voice and acoustic guitar as he can with a large backing band. With covers like the O'Jays "Love Train" and originals like "There'll Be Sad Songs" it seems like you can't go wrong in attending one of his shows.
wjmcc
Leslie Sebastian Charles otherwise known as the far more iconic Billy Ocean has been delighting audiences for over four decades and despite being well into his 60s, the musician shows no sign of losing talent with age. He proudly and productively runs through a set of the classics and some of his own preferable works all whilst the audience cheer, sing and dance along.
He looks completely at home onstage and you couldn't really imagine him doing anything, he has such passion for his reggae/R & B and after all these years he still adores singing tracks such as 'Caribbean Queen
(No More Love on the Run)' and 'Loverboy'.
The audience remains enthusiastic throughout and Billy gains an instant connection with his warm personality. Finishing with perhaps this most recognisable hit 'When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going' the crowd roar in approval and sing along in force, the music does not seem to age much like the spritely performer.
sean-ward
i went to see the show with my husband and we had front row seats, from start to finish this has got to be the best concert we have ever seen, Billy Ocean is the best showman on earth. He totally interacts with the crowd his backing singers and the band were just terrific. The whole evening was memorable he took time to have a selfie with me and even kissed me and took my hand which was lovely my husband didn’t mind lol, This is the second time we have seen him, and we will certainly go back to as many concerts as we can, I paid through viagoo way to much for my tickets but I don’t mind as it was truly well worth it,
karenmcleod1
Absolutely loved it. Billy Ocean and his band made it a great party. He sang mostly up-tempo songs and a few ballads. The show was positive, Billy Ocean involved the audience and we sang along to the chorus of his best-known songs. Great band and backing vocals. He has a beautiful voice and sent lots of positivity to the audience. If you want to have a good time and forget your troubles, Billy Ocean is (still!) the artist to go and see!
Billy was fantastic! He sang hit after hit. There was never a lull throughout his show. He's very charismatic and engaging with the audience. He still has his million dollar smile and his voice is still undeniably top notch. I can't wait until he comes back to the Los Angeles area again. His performance is one not to be missed!
chickie36
Absolutely fantastic, my 5th time of seeing him and worth every penny. The sage was also a great venue but having front row seats made it even better. Only downside for me was he never sang my favourites. L.O.D and love really hurts without you. Can't please everyone. Roll on next year.
Cheryltodd
Billy Ocean was amazing;really engaged he crowd, did all his famous songs. My only criticism would be that I feel the gig ought to have been visible on the big screens, we were fortunate to be near the front but further back people would not have seen a thing!
mollie-newby-lee
Fabulous as always at the Regent. Everyone up and joining in, how could you not.
Billy Ocean is timeless, so much energy it's hard to believe that he's been around so long.
Can't wait for his next gig
steve-butcher-1
it was my very first time seeing Billy ocean live & it was simply amazing.This man certainly can sing & perform considering his age of 67.certainly well worth what I paid for my tickets to go see him.
john-penn-symons
Fantastic night Billy was on top form belting out his and other fantastic songs the crowd were up and dancing and he rocked would definitely recommend a booking like Lionel he was the MAN!!!
karen-uw-pates
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