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
Billy the Fish The nickname also became his callsign. Billy the Fish Billy the Fish is a long-running cartoon strip in the British comic "Viz" that first appeared in 1983. Created by artist Chris Donald and writer Simon Thorp (who later took on both roles), "Billy the Fish" is, like many "Viz" strips, a lampoon of British comics – in "Billy the Fish"'s case, that of football-themed strips such as Roy of the Rovers. The cartoon was adapted into an animated film by Channel 4 in 1990. The strip chronicles the football team Fulchester United F.C. (Fulchester is the name of the fictional