When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going

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Released in December of 1985, this song was included in the soundtrack for the film The Jewel of the Nile. The single hit #1 in the UK Official Charts and #2 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. It was also included in Billy Ocean's sixth album Love Zone The music video for the song features Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, and Danny DeVito as lip-synching backup singers. View wiki
Released in December of 1985, this song was included in the soundtrack for the film The Jewel of the Nile. The single hit #1 in the UK Official Char… read more
Released in December of 1985, this song was included in the soundtrack for the film The Jewel of the Nile. The single hit #1 in the UK Official Charts and #2 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 1… read more

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Billy Ocean (born Leslie Sebastian Charles, 21 January 1950, Fyzabad, Trinidad) is a Grammy Award-winning British popular music performer who had a string of rhythm and blues-tinged international pop hits in the 1970s and 1980s. He was the main British R&B singer / songwriter of the 1980s. He waited seven years after scoring his first four UK top 20 successes, before accumulating a series of transatlantic successes, including three U.S. number ones. He was born in Fyzabad, Trinidad and Tobago to Grenadian parents, and moved to England with his family at the age of eight. Oceans&… read more
Billy Ocean (born Leslie Sebastian Charles, 21 January 1950, Fyzabad, Trinidad) is a Grammy Award-winning British popular music performer who had a string of rhythm and blues-tinged interna… read more
Billy Ocean (born Leslie Sebastian Charles, 21 January 1950, Fyzabad, Trinidad) is a Grammy Award-winning British popular music performer who had a string of rhythm and blues-tinged international pop hits in the 1970s and 1980s. He was… read more

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