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When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going (song)

"When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going"
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Single by Billy Ocean
from the album The Jewel of the Nile Soundtrack and Love Zone
Released 15 November 1985 (US)
January 1986 (UK)
Format 7", 12" single
Recorded 1985
Genre R&B, funk
Length 5:44 (album version)
4:08 (radio edit)
Label Jive
Writer(s) Wayne Anton Brathwaite, Barry James Eastmond, Mutt Lange, Billy Ocean
Producer(s) Barry Eastmond, Wayne Brathwaite
Billy Ocean singles chronology
"Suddenly"
(1985)
"When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going"
(1986)
"There'll Be Sad Songs (To Make You Cry)"
(1986)
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"When the Going Gets Tough"
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Single by Boyzone
from the album By Request
Released 1 March 1999
Genre Pop
Length 5:44 (album version)
4:08 (UK radio edit))
2:59 (US radio edit)
Label Universal
Writer(s) Billy Ocean
Producer(s) Mike Mangini, Trevor Steel, Carl Sturken, Nigel Wright, Absolute, Jim Steinman, Ian Curnow, Mark Hudson
Boyzone singles chronology
"I Love the Way You Love Me"
(1998)
"When the Going Gets Tough"
(1999)
"You Needed Me"
(1999)

"When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going" is a song co-written and originally recorded by English singer Billy Ocean in 1985.

Written by Wayne Brathwaite, Barry Eastmond, Mutt Lange and Billy Ocean, the song was used as the theme song for the Michael Douglas film, The Jewel of the Nile, the sequel to the hit blockbuster film, Romancing the Stone. The saxophone solo is by Vernon Jeffrey Smith.

Aided by a video featuring Michael Douglas and co-stars Kathleen Turner and Danny DeVito as lip-synching backup singers, the song became a major international hit reaching number one on the UK Singles Chart for four weeks in February 1986, and number two on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, stalling behind "How Will I Know" by Whitney Houston.

The Irish boyband Boyzone recorded a cover version for the 1999 Comic Relief telethon, shortening the title to "When The Going Gets Tough". Their version reached number #1 on the UK Singles Chart. The song received a platinum certification in the UK. The video included Graham Norton, Jo Brand, Phill Jupitus, Mel Smith, Davina McCall, Harry Hill, Steve Collins, John McCririck, Jimmy White, Mystic Meg, Will Mellor, James Dreyfus, the cast of Emmerdale, Adam Buxton and Joe Cornish, and Ulrika Jonsson and Saracen from Gladiators.


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