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"Electric Avenue" is a song by Guyanese-British musician Eddy Grant. Written and produced by Grant, it was released on his 1982 studio album Killer on the Rampage. In the United States, with the help of the MTV music video he made, it was one of the biggest hits of 1983. The song refers to Electric Avenue in London during the 1981 Brixton riot.
In 2001, a remix of "Electric Avenue" reached no. 5 in the UK and an attendant Greatest Hits album reached no. 3 in that country. [28] In 2004, Grant created a song for the yogurt based drink Yop, to the tune of "Gimme Hope Jo'anna". [29] On 18 April 2006, Grant released the album Reparation. [30]
On Monday, Donald Trump lost a lawsuit against singer Eddy Grant over the his usage of the song "Electric Avenue" in a 2020 campaign ad.
For most of its history, the show opened by playing "Electric Avenue" by Eddie Grant and closed by playing (an often re-mixed version of) "Take On Me" by A-ha. For example, the April 14, 2021, episode ended with the vocals of "Take On Me" dubbed over the song from the Buick commercials. [10]
Electric Avenue was originally recorded before it was released on the Greatest Hits album. Trump's lawyer argued that the individual songs in Dylan's "The Basement Tapes" and Swift's "Taylor's ...
A federal judge in Manhattan found Trump liable in the "Electric Avenue" copyright case, saying he offered no real defense for using the song.
Electric Avenue is a street in Brixton, London built in 1888. [1] It was the first market street to be lit by electric lights. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Today, Electric Avenue contains national retail chains ( Boots , Greggs , and Iceland ), as well as various local food and housewares retailers.
Singer Eddy Grant has revealed he took Donald Trump to cover “over a lack of respect” after the former president used his song Electric Avenue in his 2020 presidential campaign. Grant ...