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Copyvio?

This article is suspiciously close to the AMG profile of Billy Ocean. It's not word for word, but it's clearly written by someone who had read it.

Lives in Milton Keynes?

Strange how it doesn't get a mention anywhere except here and copies of here. Taken out.

Shenfield?

I'm a bit dubious about the Shenfield reference. Can anyone provide any citation to back that one up?

And the chart positions seem a bit US-centric for a UK-based artist. I'll probably go through later and augment the information with UK chart stats using my Guiness book, if nobody objects? David Brider 14:56, 13 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Fair use rationale for Image:Bocean.jpg

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Article needs image

Should this image be used? http://www.nndb.com/people/033/000024958/ocean01.jpg -Yancyfry 04:28, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Birth Name and Stage Name

according to my sources, at his concert at the Cresset Peterborough he said he got his name from the estate where he grew up, The Ocean Estate, London. Please check into this.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.6.202.46 (talk) 16:32, 1 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

What, precisely, is stopping you from checking into this ? Derek R Bullamore (talk) 22:23, 28 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
According to this that is correct - I'll edit the page and add the appropriate cite. (He's also literally the only famous person ever to have gone to my old school...) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.135.1.183 (talk) 14:14, 28 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Billy did grow up on the Ocean estate bow —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.153.60.133 (talk) 10:46, 10 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

According to the reference quoted right after his birth name, his last name was Charles, not Ocean, so clearly whoever did that edit and whomever else has been editing this article has been plain old asleep at the switch. I edited the information based on the reference and the multiple mentions that he later took the "ocean" stage name, making it very unlikely his birth name was Ocean. 74.102.175.157 (talk) 16:58, 12 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Questionable information

It says: "A remix of the single by Will.I.Am was released in 2005, and it later appeared on Pitchfork's "Top 500 Tracks of the 2000s" countdown, at #87.[11]". But I couldn't find mention of this on the Will.I.Am page on wikipedia, or anything on the link supplied.

Ditto. #87 on the Pitchfork list is Mike Jones (ft. Paul Wall and Slim Thug) "Still Tippin" -Dwchin (talk) 13:04, 9 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Gay?

Is it true that Billy Ocean is a gay man?71.185.238.95 (talk) 18:51, 3 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Well I just saw him and he introduced his daughter as one of his backup singers and he kissed quite a few ladies in the audience... DJParker39 (talk) 04:08, 12 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Recent Photo

If anyone wants to incorporate them into the article (I'm not sure how), here are a couple pictures I took of Mr. Ocean while he was performing in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada on May 11th, 2011:

http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/222205_10150608811960534_873120533_18788505_5630920_n.jpg

http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/226614_10150608798245534_873120533_18788308_4527271_n.jpg

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