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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 ]
It’s impossible to overstate the impact MTV had when it launched in 1981. The bold new cable station captured the zeitgeist, putting the new medium of music videos at the forefront of pop culture.
The 1983 hit, which made Grant one of the first Black artists to be played on MTV, is named after Electric Avenue in South London’s Brixton, and it was written after riots against over-policing ...
At midnight on Aug. 1, 1981, Martha Quinn, Mark Goodman, Nina Blackwood, Alan Hunter, and J.J. Jackson stood inside the Loft restaurant in Fort Lee, N.J., to watch ...
"Electric Avenue" Eddy Grant: 23 "She Blinded Me with Science" Thomas Dolby: 24 "Africa" Toto: 25 "Little Red Corvette" Prince: 26 "Back on the Chain Gang" The Pretenders: 27 "Up Where We Belong" Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes: 28 "Mr. Roboto" Styx: 29 "You Are" Lionel Richie: 30 "Der Kommissar" After the Fire: 31 "Puttin' on the Ritz" Taco: 32 ...
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 ]
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.