<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> `` 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>
when did the song electric avenue come out
when did the song electric avenue come out
1982
1982