BILLY OCEAN - CARIBEAN QUEEN

CARIBEAN QUEEN

BILLY OCEAN

SONGWRITER: BILLY OCEAN

COUNTRY: U. K.

ALBUM: SUDDENLY

LABEL: BATTERY STUDIOS

GENRE: SOUL

YEAR: 1984

Suddenly is the fifth Studio album by British recording artist Billy Ocean, released in 1984. It featured his first major U.S. pop hit single "Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run)", which reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 record chart. Prior to that, his biggest success in the U.S. charts had been a #22 placing for "Love Really Hurts Without You" in 1976, which was one of a number of British hits he had achieved by the release of this album. Despite these earlier hits, Suddenly became Ocean's first charting album in the UK, reaching #9 on the UK Album Chart. It also reached #9 in the US, and produced two additional top ten singles in the title track and "Loverboy".

Leslie Sebastian Charles MBE (born 21 January 1950), known professionally as Billy Ocean, 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 Trinidad–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 No. 1's. His 1985 hit "When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going" reached No. 1 in the UK and No. 2 in the US. In 1985, Ocean won the Grammy Award for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance for his worldwide hit "Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run)" and in 1987 was nominated for the Brit Award for Best British Male Artist. His 1988 hit "Get Outta My Dreams, Get into My Car" reached No. 1 in the US and No. 3 in the UK. His 1986 hit "There'll Be Sad Songs (To Make You Cry)" also reached No. 1 in the US.

In 2002, the University of Westminster, London, awarded Ocean an honorary doctorate of music. In 2010, Ocean was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the MOBO Awards. On 29 July 2011, Ocean became a Companion of the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, presented to him by Sir Paul McCartney. He is a member of the Rastafari movement. 

She's simple awesome

She dashed by me in painted on jeans

And all heads turned 'cause she was the dream

In the blink of an eye I knew her number and her name yeah

Ah she said I was the tiger she wanted to tame

Caribbean queen

Now we're sharing the same dream

And our hearts they beat as one

No more love on the run

I lose my cool when she steps in the room

And I get so excited just from her perfume

Electric eyes that you can't ignore

And passion burns you like never before

I was in search of a good time

Just running my game

Love was the furthest

Furthest from my mind

Caribbean queen

Now we're sharing the same dream

And our hearts they beat as one

No more love on the run

Caribbean queen

Now we're sharing the same dream

And our hearts they beat as one

No more love on the run

Caribbean queen

Now we're sharing the same dream

And our hearts they beat as one

No more love on the run.