The song refers to Electric Avenue in London, and to the 1981 Brixton riot in the Brixton district of the city. In the United States, with the help of the MTV video he shot for it, it was one of the biggest hits of 1983. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License additional terms may apply."Electric Avenue" is a song written, recorded and produced by British singer and songwriter Eddy Grant, who released it on his 1982 album Killer on the Rampage. He has produced music for the likes of Sting, Mick Jagger, and Elvis Costello. The album Walking on Sunshine produced the popular tracks 'I Don't Wanna Dance' and 'Gimme Hope Jo'anna'.Grant owns and operates a leading recording studio called Blue Wave in Barbados, near St Lawrence Gap, and it has hosted some of the world's top recording artists and producers over the years. Grant openly used his songwriting for political purposes, as in ' Police on My Back', and later 'Gimme Hope Jo'anna' about the then-current apartheid regime of South Africa.By the early 1980s Grant released Killer on the Rampage, using MTV exposure to have big hits in the U.S., the U.K., and Australia with the '80s techno reggae of 'Electric Avenue', and following that up with the title song for the successful 1984 film Romancing the Stone. He sported dyed blonde hair, and had his first million-selling number-one hit in 1968, when he was the lead guitarist and main songwriter with his song 'Baby Come Back'. As a teenager he formed the multi-racial group The Equals. 1948) is a Guyanan musician.Born Edmond Montague Grant on the 5th March 1948 in Plaisance, Guyana, he emigrated with parents to London, England when he was still young. Phillip, Barbados GenreReggae, funk, reggae fusion, new wave, synth-pop, disco, rock Length41:39 LabelPortrait ProducerEddy Grant Eddy Grant chronology Can't Get Enough Killer on the Rampag. Killer on the Rampage Studio album by Eddy Grant Released1982 Recorded1982 StudioBlue Wave Studios, St. It features the hits 'Electric Avenue', 'I Don't Wanna Dance' and 'War Party'.
It remains his most successful album, hitting the top 10 in the US and the UK. Killer on the Rampage is an album by Eddy Grant.
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