<Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> <Ul> <Li> file </Li> <Li> help </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Ul> <Li> file </Li> <Li> help </Li> </Ul> <P> "Electric Avenue" is a song written, recorded and produced by Eddy Grant, who released it from his 1982 album Killer on the Rampage . In the United States, with the help of the MTV video he shot for it, it was one of 1983's biggest hits of the year . The song's title refers to Electric Avenue in the south London district of Brixton which was the first market street to be lit by electricity . The area is now known for its high population of Caribbean immigrants . At the beginning of the 1980s, tensions over unemployment, racism and poverty culminated in the street events now known as the 1981 Brixton riot . Grant, horrified and enraged, wrote and composed the song in response; a year afterwards, the song was playing over the airwaves . </P> <P> Grant initially released it as a single in 1982, and reached No. 2 on the UK Singles Chart . In 1983, CBS decided to launch the single in the U.S., where it spent five weeks at No. 2 on Billboard Magazine's Hot 100 charts and hit No. 1 in Cash Box Magazine . (It was kept out of the top spot on Billboard's Hot 100 by a combination of two songs, "Flashdance...What a Feeling" by Irene Cara and that year's song of the summer, "Every Breath You Take" by The Police .) "Electric Avenue" was a hit on two other US charts: On the soul chart it went to No. 18, and on the dance charts, it peaked at No. 6 . It was nominated for a Grammy Award as Best R&B Song of 1983, but lost to Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean ." </P>

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