<Tr> <Th> Songwriter (s) </Th> <Td> Eddy Grant </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Producer (s) </Th> <Td> Eddy Grant </Td> </Tr> <P> "I Don't Wanna Dance" is a 1982 single by Eddy Grant . It went to number one on the UK Singles Chart and held there for three weeks in November 1982 . It was later released in the United States, but only reached No. 53 on the Billboard Hot 100 in late 1983 . It was later reissued as the B - side of Grant's "Electric Avenue". </P> <P> 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 an idea . That's how I try to write: you take it how you want, but I am basically a writer of protest ." </P>

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