Red Light Spells Danger – Billy Ocean 1977

Billy Ocean is a Grammy Award-winning British-based popular music performer who had a string of rhythm and blues-tinged international pop hits in the 1970s and 1980s. He was the top British-based R&B singer / songwriter of the 1980s. He was born in Fyzabad, Trinidad and Tobago to Grenadian parents (born Leslie Sebastian Charles, 21 January 1950,) and moved to England with his family at the age of eight. He released his first single in 1972 on Spark Records as Les Charles. By 1975 he adopted the name Billy Ocean, taking the surname from the ‘Ocean Estate’ where he lived in East London. The following year, 1976, was when he recorded his debut album, Billy Ocean, with its first single release, “Love Really Hurts Without You,” charting at number 2 in the UK Singles Chart and number 22 in the US Billboard Hot 100. More hits followed, including as “LOD (Love On Delivery)”. He also wrote songs for other artists such as LaToya Jackson.[2] In 1981 he hit the US R&B chart with “Nights (Feel Like Getting Down)”. Ocean’s period of greatest success began with Suddenly in 1984 and its main single “Caribbean Queen”. The song’s title and lyrics were changed for different regions, such that the song is also known as “African Queen” or “European Queen”. The song won Ocean the Grammy Award for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance at the 1985 Grammy Awards. The album’s title track also became a hit, peaking at #4 in the US, and the song “Loverboy”, while also being a #2 US hit in 1985, from the …