{"id":17646,"date":"2025-05-26T14:01:28","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T13:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/letrat.eu\/?p=17646"},"modified":"2025-09-27T06:00:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T05:00:45","slug":"billy-ocean-loverboy-1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/letrat.eu\/?p=17646","title":{"rendered":"Billy Ocean – Loverboy, 1984"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n
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\n“Loverboy<\/strong>” 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.
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Year: 1984
\nGenre: Electronic
\nStyle: Disco, Synth-Pop<\/p>\nSynth-pop<\/strong><\/span>

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<\/p>

|\u2794|<\/a><\/div><\/span>\nDisco<\/strong><\/span>

One of the main genres of dance music of the XX century, which arose in the early 1970s.<\/p>\n<\/span>\n<\/td>\n

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\nBilly Ocean<\/strong><\/span>

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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Main references<\/strong>

Sky Division, Viberate, Discogs, Melodigging, Wikipedia, Pandora, Soundcloud, BandCamp, Genius, NPR, Y2Mate, Smule, Deezer, Musixmatch, Chordtela, Reverb, Spotify, Hitmotop, Letras, Shazam, Musify, Int. Archive... and other sources<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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