When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going

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When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going
  DE 2 02/03/1986 (17 weeks)
  AT 8th 03/15/1986 (12 weeks)
  CH 2 02/16/1986 (14 weeks)
  UK 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 01/25/1986 (16 weeks)
  US 2 11/30/1985 (23 weeks)

When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going is a song by Billy Ocean from the year 1985 , which he, Robert Lange , Wayne Brathwaite and Barry Eastmond was written. It is a soundtrack to the film In Search of the Jewel of the Nile .

history

When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going was released worldwide on November 15, 1985, from then on it became a number one hit in the UK , Ireland , Australia , Canada , the Netherlands , Belgium and Norway .

The song is 5:44 minutes long and appeared on the Love Zone album . On the B-side is a remix version of the song.

Music video

Michael Douglas , Danny DeVito and Kathleen Turner star in the music video . The clip also contains some scenes from the film. At the beginning of the video, Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner talk to each other, then they run away and soldiers shoot them with guns. In another scene, Billy Ocean sings the song on a stage. During his performance he is accompanied by a band in which one of the drums, another keyboard , some wind instruments and another guitar play. Douglas, DeVito and Turner also play back the background vocals.

Cover versions

The title has been covered several times. Parts of it were used as samples in other works, including the song We Like to Party! from the Vengaboys .

Meaning of the title

When the going gets tough, the tough get going is the motto of the Kennedy family and is attributed to Joseph P. Kennedy , the father of the murdered US President John F. Kennedy . In March 2005, then Chancellor Gerhard Schröder quoted this idiom in the sense of When times get tough, the tough guys only really get going.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Charts DE Charts AT Charts CH Charts UK Charts US
  2. ↑ Music video in mojvideo.com
  3. ^ When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going in Whosampled.com
  4. ↑ Ekkehard Zöfgen (Ed.): Idiomatics and Phraseology . In: Foreign languages ​​teaching and learning . Vol. 21, 1992, p. 101.
  5. ↑ Jens König: Tough guys in tough times . In: taz , March 19, 2005.