BILLY OCEAN
ONE WORLD
It feels churlish denouncing Billy Ocean’s 11th album. All Over The World, a lightweight reggae variation on Let it Be, insists we “do it for the children”, for “peace and unity”, and its energetic title song advocates global unity, or, in his words, “a love revolution”. It’s phrases like these, though, that are indicative of the record’s Achilles heel: One World has a bad case of the trites.