Billy Ocean

Billy Ocean (1984)

Interview by Simon Witter, Rock's Backpages Audio, 14 November 1984

From tailoring in Savile Row to 'Caribbean Queen' – Billy tells of his fight to break away from the cabaret circuit of his early days to score his mega-hits of the mid-'80s.

File format: mp3; in 2 parts, total file sizes: 55.1mb, total interview length: 1 h 00' 14" sound quality: ***

Billy Ocean: The Other Side of the Ocean

Interview by David Hancock, Record Mirror, 3 April 1976

BILLY OCEAN doesn't drink, well at least he didn't, but you know what they say day trips to Holland can be like. ...

Billy Ocean

Book Excerpt by Phil Hardy, Dave Laing, The Faber Companion to 20th-Century Popular Music, 2001

b. Leslie Sebastian Charles, 21 January 1950, Trinidad ...