Billy Ocean Billy Ocean Billy Ocean (born Leslie Sebastian Charles; 21 January 1950) is a Trinidadian-English recording artist who had a string of R&B international pop hits in the 1970s and 1980s. He was the most popular British R&B singer-songwriter of the early to mid-1980s. After scoring his first four UK Top 20 successes, seven years passed before he accumulated a series of transatlantic successes, including three US number ones. His 1985 hit "When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going" reached number one in the UK and number two in the US. In 1985, Ocean won the Grammy Award for
What Is Life "Rolling Stone" readers' poll, titled "10 Greatest Solo Beatle Songs", the song placed fourth, with the editor commenting: "The track is deceptively simple, and more layers become apparent the more often you play it." "What Is Life" has featured in Bruce Pollock's book "The 7,500 Most Important Songs of 1944–2000", Treble website's "The Top 200 Songs of the 1970s" (ranked at number 101) and Dave Thompson's "1000 Songs That Rock Your World" (at number 247). "What Is Life" was included on the 1976 compilation "The Best of George Harrison" as well as 2009's "". The song has also been featured