Electric Avenue (song)

"Electric Avenue"
UK cover
Single by Eddy Grant
from the album Killer on the Rampage
Released18 April 1983
StudioBlue Wave (Barbados)
Genre
Length
  • 3:47 (album version)
  • 3:12 (radio edit)
LabelIce
Songwriter(s)Eddy Grant
Producer(s)Eddy Grant
Audio sample
"Electric Avenue"
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Music video
"Electric Avenue" on YouTube

"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.