Greatest Hits (Billy Ocean album)
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| Released | 16 October 1989[1] | |||
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| Length | 56:15 | |||
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Greatest Hits is a greatest hits album by British R&B singer and songwriter Billy Ocean, released in 1989. The album features Ocean's biggest hit singles of the 1980s, along with two new singles, "I Sleep Much Better (In Someone Else's Bed)" and "Licence to Chill", the latter of which became Ocean's twelfth and final US top 40 hit to date, reaching No. 32. Greatest Hits became Ocean's best-selling release in the UK, becoming his only album to reach Platinum status there. It has also been certified Platinum in the US.
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Going" | Billy Ocean, Robert John "Mutt" Lange, Wayne Brathwaite, Barry Eastmond | 4:08 |
| 2. | "License to Chill" | Ocean, Lange | 4:52 |
| 3. | "Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run)" | Ocean, Keith Diamond | 4:06 |
| 4. | "There'll Be Sad Songs (To Make You Cry)" | Ocean, Brathwaite, Eastmond | 4:50 |
| 5. | "Loverboy" | Ocean, Diamond, Lange | 4:09 |
| 6. | "Suddenly" | Ocean, Diamond | 3:51 |
| 7. | "Get Outta My Dreams, Get into My Car" | Ocean, Lange | 4:43 |
| 8. | "Love Zone" | Ocean, Brathwaite, Eastmond | 4:13 |
| 9. | "Here's to You" | Ocean, Brathwaite, Eastmond, Jolyon Skinner | 4:11 |
| 10. | "I Sleep Much Better (In Someone Else's Bed)" | Ocean, Lange | 5:15 |
| 11. | "The Colour of Love" | Ocean, Brathwaite, Eastmond, Skinner | 4:22 |
| 12. | "Calypso Crazy" | Ocean, Lange | 4:28 |
| 13. | "Mystery Lady" | Ocean, Diamond, James Woodley | 3:55 |
| Total length: | 56:15 | ||
On the US issue, "Tear Down These Walls" (Ocean, Lange, Teddy Riley) replaces "Calypso Crazy".[3]