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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.
Electric Avenue was formed in 2013 when a group of musicians came together to perform 1980s music for a one-time event. [4] [5] Following shifts in the music industry influenced by platforms like Napster and iTunes, which impacted traditional album sales, the group decided to become a permanent tribute band. [4]
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 ...
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.
A federal judge in Manhattan found Trump liable for damages in the "Electric Avenue" copyright case. Trump has zero defense for a 2020 tweet that included 40 seconds of the dance hit, the judge found.
It was later reissued as the B-side of Grant's "Electric Avenue". The song expresses Eddy's farewell to Britain being a land of class and colour divisions. Grant explained to the Daily Telegraph on June 27, 2008: "I Don't Wanna Dance can mean that you don't want to go out on the dancefloor or it could mean that you don't want to go along with ...
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Trump's side is set to argue Grant never copyrighted the master for his 1983 hit "Electric Avenue." Grant sued Trump four years ago over the song's use in a campaign tweet making fun of Joe Biden.