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Speaker 1: Billy Ocean is coming to town in September. He's going

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Speaker 1: to be at the Riverside Theater September seventeen as part

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Speaker 1: of his one World tour. Tickets are available through a

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Speaker 1: Trinky Tech and Billy is with us now.

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Speaker 2: Helloa Billy, good morning, good Hi, I'm here come wait

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Speaker 2: to come down and.

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Speaker 1: See your congratulations on your landmark album suddenly fairly recently

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Speaker 1: celebrating its fortieth anniversary.

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Speaker 3: Forty that's right, forty.

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Speaker 1: Can you believe you're still touring the world.

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Speaker 2: I know, I don't know how long will I how

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Speaker 2: long will I be doing it for? God knows?

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Speaker 3: Are you're on a young seventy fifth.

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Speaker 2: You know, seventy five, a couple of weeks ago.

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Speaker 3: That's right, Absolutely, I know.

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Speaker 2: I just keep on. I'll just keep on doing it

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Speaker 2: until until I don't do what I don't know.

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Speaker 1: Sounds like a plan.

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Speaker 3: That's a great plan. And speaking of the birthday, no, no,

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Speaker 3: you're not much of a drinker. But howd you celebrate

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Speaker 3: the seventy fifth?

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Speaker 2: Well, I was taken out to dinner, I had a curry, went,

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Speaker 2: I had a night. In fact, you know, I celebrate

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Speaker 2: my birthday for the whole month. It's not a day, wait,

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Speaker 2: a whole year. Yeah, you had a whole year to

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Speaker 2: celebrate one day. No, I keep. I try and get

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Speaker 2: as much as I could, you know, for that month.

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Speaker 2: And I'm planning. There's a place that there's a new,

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Speaker 2: newest sort of Chinese restaurant in London they called the Shard,

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Speaker 2: which is like you heard, you heard of it. I

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Speaker 2: think it's the tallest building in Europe. Yeah. And then

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Speaker 2: I'm going to a new Chinese place, another Chinese place,

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Speaker 2: and uh, you know about the show one day was

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Speaker 2: I was, I think I was going to America and

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Speaker 2: the shot came up above the clouds. It was the

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Speaker 2: most It was like something like Ferity, but I didn't

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Speaker 2: have my camera with me to take it. It was

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Speaker 2: n't believable. But there you go.

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Speaker 1: We Chinese try out in Perth when you come and

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Speaker 1: one of them is called Billy.

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Speaker 2: Well listen, one of the nicer world Australia. You know,

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Speaker 2: in the meeting of people performing your cuisine is unbelievable.

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Speaker 2: I love, I love, I'm looking forward. That's something I

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Speaker 2: look forward to very much. And you.

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Speaker 3: Have to check it out. The food's great. Some beautiful

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Speaker 3: vegetarian for you.

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Speaker 2: It's vegetarian as well, because you know, vegetarian and vegetarian.

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Speaker 3: It's got a huge Yeah, you'll be pages and pages. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 3: it's plice to be hometown. But you mentioned you love Maty.

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Speaker 3: The people, the fans have been very loyal to you,

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Speaker 3: and they'll they'll be coming out and drives for this show.

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Speaker 3: But what is it You must be seeing multiple generations

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Speaker 3: rocking up the gigs now, yeah, I know.

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Speaker 2: Yes, I see, I see somebody see three or four generations, Grandma, kids, parents, Yes,

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Speaker 2: I mean it's great, it's great. And the amazing thing

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Speaker 2: I've seen the kids singing the old song like Lovely

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Speaker 2: Hurts some.

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Speaker 1: Red Light and yeah, I know all the words. The

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Speaker 1: Grammys have just been on just recently. When you watch,

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Speaker 1: if you do watch the Grammys, does it take you

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Speaker 1: straight back to that night you picked up one for

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Speaker 1: Caribbean Coin.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it does. I'm looking forward to maybe one day.

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Speaker 2: I hope it's not my only Grammy. I'd like to

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Speaker 2: get a couple more, you know, But you know why not.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's achievements, isn't it. You know? But

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Speaker 2: maybe wonder who knows, But at least at least if

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Speaker 2: I don't get another one, I can say at least

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Speaker 2: I had I have had a Grammy.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, people as Grammy winning Billy Osha made one.

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Speaker 2: That's true.

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Speaker 3: That's big.

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Speaker 2: No, I've had quite a few awards, you know, like MBS, Grammys,

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Speaker 2: Ivon no Vello, doctorates. Yeah, I mean yeah, you know,

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Speaker 2: for somebody who really has had no sort of you know,

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Speaker 2: academic qualities, I think I've done quite well. I'm quite

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Speaker 2: I'm quite pleased with some of the I've had in

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Speaker 3: Yeah, what was it like being a twenty six year

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Speaker 3: old and all of a sudden you're dominating the world's

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Speaker 3: charts with love really hurts without you. It was nineteen

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Speaker 2: I was nervous and still come on, you sort of

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Speaker 2: sort of older confidence, but in them days, oh my god,

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Speaker 2: it was like please, how do you? How do you

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Speaker 2: deal with it? You just sort of just sort of

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Speaker 2: go with the flow, and you sort of everybody's patting

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Speaker 2: you on the back, Telly, how great you are, and

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Speaker 2: you have to you really have to see, Yeah, you

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Speaker 2: have to be very disciplined within yourself and sort of

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Speaker 2: you know, don't don't sort of don't sort to take it,

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Speaker 2: don't don't want to take it off for granted, you know,

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Speaker 2: just sort of realized and treated for what it is

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Speaker 2: and realize that one day maybe it's not going to

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Speaker 2: happen anymore. Fortunately enough to have quite a few more

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Speaker 2: after that. I thought at one time that would be

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Speaker 2: the only thing, but it wasn't. I mean, I'm still

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Speaker 2: out here, still recording and still write and still sing

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Speaker 2: and still enjoy it. Is that true?

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Speaker 1: Before you were grabby winning Belly Ocean, you were a

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Speaker 1: bespoke taylor in London several roads.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, what definitely was. Yeah, that's not where I got

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Speaker 2: my suits and things, you know, consider I was working there.

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Speaker 2: Now that's why I'm buying my suits and all my

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Speaker 2: nice sharp looking suits. I get it from time time.

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Speaker 3: You're very smooth, That's what that's what we're thinking we

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Speaker 3: think of Robert Palmer, David Bowie, Billy Ocean.

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Speaker 2: Yeah that good. Not you know, why not look good? Yes,

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Speaker 2: it's important to look good. Look you know what, you know,

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Speaker 2: if you're going to look shabby, why look shabby? Look good? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: You know you're there. Yeah, Yeah, that's what I say.

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Speaker 3: Was there a manager or someone involved, or a record

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Speaker 3: company involved in giving you the name Billy Ocean or

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Speaker 3: such not Leslie Cheles, did you know?

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Speaker 2: No, No, I did that myself. Yeah, I did that myself,

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Speaker 2: because you know, no, back in the day, what happens

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Speaker 2: is that a producer got you, and they wrote the songs,

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Speaker 2: and they give your name, and they sort of they

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Speaker 2: sort of treated you like a package and took this

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Speaker 2: package to the record company. But the problem is, if

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Speaker 2: anything happened, you never had that name. They took the

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Speaker 2: name back. So I got vise to all that. And

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Speaker 2: when once I started writing and learning to write and

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Speaker 2: do my apprenticeship, I came up with this name, Billy Oshan,

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Speaker 2: and I thought, you know, I'm going to keep I

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Speaker 2: like that. I'm going to keep that for whenever, you know,

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Speaker 2: for whenever it's necessary. And I did. I had lovely hearts.

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Speaker 2: I took this name out of my back pocket and

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Speaker 2: that was it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, who's that rapper Frank Ocean? I think he must

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Speaker 1: have been a bit influenced by your name, and he's

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Speaker 1: tinched it, Billy. Before we let you go, we must

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Speaker 1: ask you a question we like to ask everyone. Do

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Speaker 1: you remember the first time you heard yourself on the radio.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it was the most amazing, amazing thing ever,

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Speaker 2: because that's the sort of thing you stried for. You

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Speaker 2: hear the Beatles, you hear the Stones, all these different people,

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Speaker 2: and one day you hear yourself on the radio. It's like, wow,

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Speaker 2: it's a dream contry. It's an unbelievable, amazing feeling of

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Speaker 2: good and bad because suddenly there you are acclaimed in

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Speaker 2: the radio. But now, how do you deal with it?

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Speaker 2: Are you prepared for it? You're not a rolling stone,

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Speaker 2: You're not a You never you know if you're equipped

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Speaker 2: enough to deal with it. But you know, you do.

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Speaker 2: You know, you go out there and you do it,

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Speaker 2: and you sort of become confident as you get older.

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Speaker 1: Basically, well, clearly you have because all these years later,

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Speaker 1: we're going to see you on September seventeen at the

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Speaker 1: Riverside Theater in the One World to a really ocean.

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Speaker 1: We can't wait.

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Speaker 2: Well, look forward to seeing your.

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Speaker 3: We'll see you're coming down Georgia's Terrace in your shop.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, you bet when I'm on the stage, you

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Speaker 2: probably won't recognize when I'm not by Thank you, Bye,