Billy Ocean is the biggest selling black recording star Britain has ever produced and has sold over 30 million records in his lifetime to date. Having achieved extraordinary success as both an artist and a songwriter, Billy has collected multiple Gold and Platinum records across the world and hit the number one spot worldwide in the pop charts including the USA, Australia, Germany, Holland, and the UK.
2016 saw the Here You Are: The Best Of Billy Ocean album released in the UK, gaining a Top 10 chart position at Number 4 this was Billy’s highest charting album since 1989. This year Billy celebrated the 35th year anniversary of his ground-breaking album, Suddenly. Originally released in 1984 the record spawned the monster hits Caribbean Queen (No More Love On The Run), Mystery Lady and Loverboy. Gearing up for the highly anticipated release of his new album, 2020 is set to be another big year for Billy.
There has been a theatre on George Street for almost 185 years. The first theatre was built in 1836, and a second in 1886. In 1908, the Dorrill family took over the venue and finally in 1934, the third Theatre opened; the ‘New Theatre’. Stanley Dorrill masterminded the rebuilding of the theatre as we know it today. He commissioned a new building from the well-known theatre architects William and T.R. Milburn of Sunderland. The Milburns developed the decadent art-deco interior with T.P Bennett and Sons, who also designed the Saville Theatre in London.