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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.
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.
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]
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 in the "Electric Avenue" copyright case, saying he offered no real defense for using the song.
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 ...
Eddy Grant's 1982 song "Electric Avenue" refers to the Brixton riot, although there was actually little rioting in Electric Avenue itself. [31] Linton Kwesi Johnson's poems "New Crass Massahkah" and "Di Great Insoreckshan" (1984) [30] were written in response to the Brixton riot. [32]
Electric Avenue, a 1988 BBC series on the application of computers to everyday life; A radio program hosted by Richard Z. Sirois in Quebec and Ontario, Canada; Electric Avenue (New Zealand festival) is a music festival held in Hagley Park, Christchurch, New Zealand; A seafront arcade in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England