‘When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Going’ is a single by Trinidadian-British singer/songwriter Billy Ocean. The song peaked at No. 01 in the UK Singles Chart in 1986.
Billy OceanBilly Ocean (born Leslie Sebastian Charles, 1950) is a Trinidadian-British singer-songwriter who became the most successful Black British pop-R&B artist of the 1980s. After moving to London as a child, he scored early hits like “Love Really Hurts Without You.”
Ocean achieved monumental global superstardom in the mid-1980s with a string of international number-one hits, including “Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run),” “Suddenly,” and “When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going.” Renowned for his smooth vocals and infectious pop-soul melodies, he won a Grammy Award and has sold over 30 million records worldwide.