He became one of the most successful soul/R&B artists of the 1980s. Very few people even realized Billy Ocean had been recording for nearly a decade before massive crossover smashes like "Suddenly" ...

Paul McCartney and Wings threw that question out in 1976, and thankfully a cavalcade of artists a decade later joined him in saying "here I go again," creating a plethora of great 80s love songs ...

“So he said, ‘What about ‘I’m all out of love, I’m so lost without you’?’ And I thought, Yeah, that sounds great.” It’s hard to overstate the magnitude of the ‘80s power ballad ...