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“Loverboy” is Billy Ocean’s 2nd single from his 1984 album, Suddenly. The song was played in the first episode of the long-running BBC One medical drama Casualty on 6 September 1986. [ wikipedia ] Year: 1984 Synth-Pop can apply to pretty much any pop music dominated by synthetic sounds. The synth-pop genre, though, primarily originates in late 1970s / early 1980s [New Wave], the post-punk "alternative" rock movement that encompasses a wide range of styles and attitudes. There are some non-New Wave synth- pop bands like Pet Shop Boys, but on the whole, the synth-pop scene of the 1980s was dominated by a faction of New Wave bands that embraced the use of electronic instruments and DiscoOne of the main genres of dance music of the XX century, which arose in the early 1970s. |
 Billy Ocean Leslie Sebastian Charles (born 1950), known professionally as Billy Ocean, is a Trinidadian-born British singer and songwriter. Between 1976 and 1988, he had a series of hit songs in the UK and internationally.
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