AUDIO: Billy Ocean (1984)
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.
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