| 词条 | Electric Avenue (song) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| name = Electric Avenue | cover = Electric Avenue UK single cover.jpg | alt = | caption = UK cover | type = single | artist = Eddy Grant | album = Killer on the Rampage | released = 1982 1983 (US) | format = | recorded = | studio = | venue = | genre = Funk[1] | length = 3:48 | label = {{hlist|CBS|Portrait|Parlophone|EMI}} | writer = Eddy Grant | producer = Eddy Grant | prev_title = | prev_year = | next_title = | next_year = | misc = {{Audio sample | type = single | file = Eddie Grant - Electric Avenue.ogg | description = "Electric Avenue" }}{{External music video|{{youtube|zRnnKLy_fyM|"Electric Avenue"}} | type = single | header = Audio }} }}"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. According to Grant, he first became aware of the street's existence during a stint acting at the Black Theatre of Brixton.[2] 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. Grant had left the UK shortly after the riots to live in Barbados: his most recent batch of songs had been lost in baggage transit, and "Electric Avenue" was one of the songs he wrote immediately afterwards to make up for the lost material.[2] 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[3] 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,[4] and on the dance charts, it peaked at No. 6.[5] It was nominated for a Grammy Award as Best R&B Song of 1983,[6] but lost to Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean". Music videoThe video was the crucial element for this song to go mainstream in America. It was filmed in Barbados.[2] The song was already a hit in the UK. When MTV ran music videos on its network, the producers put the song into rotation to add some racial diversity. MTV in their early years played videos by white artists almost exclusively and were criticized by famous musicians like David Bowie for not having black artists on the network.[7] After "Billie Jean" aired and was successful, soon MTV was scrambling to get other black artists into their rotation. Once "Electric Avenue" aired, it did not take long for the song to climb up to the no. 2 spot on the Billboard Hot 100.[8] Other release informationThe original B-Side to this song was a non-LP track titled "Time Warp". The 45 sold more than one million copies in the United States, earning a platinum certification. It was later re-issued with "I Don't Want to Dance" as the flip side. "Electric Avenue" was re-released in 2001. The single featured the "Ringbang Remix," and reached number 5 in the UK Singles Chart in June 2001, as well as reaching number 16 on the US dance chart. The Ringbang Remix was also featured on Now That's What I Call Music! 49 as track 1 of disc 2. Refugee Camp All-Stars versionRefugee Camp All-Stars covered the song in 1997 for the original soundtrack of the movie Money Talks. This cover was titled "Avenues" and featured reggae artist Ky-Mani Marley. Their version peaked at No. 35 on the Billboard Hot 100.[9]ChartsWeekly charts{{col-begin}}{{col-2}}Original version
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See also{{Portal|1980s}}
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All Media Network |url= http://www.allmusic.com/artist/eddy-grant-mn0000796763/awards |accessdate= 6 May 2016}} 14. ^{{cite web|url= http://cashboxmagazine.com/archives/80s_files/19830709.html |title= CASH BOX Top 100 Singles – Week ending JULY 9, 1983 |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20120911042452/http://cashboxmagazine.com/archives/80s_files/19830709.html |archivedate= 11 September 2012}}. Cash Box. 15. ^{{cite web|title= Forum – ARIA Charts: Special Occasion Charts – Top 100 End of Year AMR Charts – 1980s |publisher= Australian-charts.com. Hung Medien |url= http://australian-charts.com/forum.asp?todo=viewthread&id=40275 |accessdate= 6 May 2016}} 16. ^{{cite web|title= Jaaroverzichten 1983 |publisher= Ultratop. Hung Medien |accessdate= 6 May 2016 |url= http://www.ultratop.be/nl/annual.asp?year=1983 |language= nl}} 17. ^{{cite magazine|title= The Top Singles of 1983 |magazine= RPM |volume= 39 |issue= 17 |date= 24 December 1983 |accessdate= 6 May 2016 |url= http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/image.aspx?Image=nlc008388.6699&URLjpg=http%3a%2f%2fwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca%2fobj%2f028020%2ff4%2fnlc008388.6699.gif&Ecopy=nlc008388.6699}} 18. ^{{de icon}} {{cite web|url= https://www.offiziellecharts.de/charts/single-jahr/for-date-1983 |title= Jahrescharts – 1983 |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20150509000529/https://www.offiziellecharts.de/charts/single-jahr/for-date-1983 |archivedate= 9 May 2015}}. Offiziellecharts.de. GfK Entertainment Charts. 19. ^{{cite web|title= Top 100-Jaaroverzicht van 1983 |publisher= Dutch Top 40 |accessdate= 6 May 2016 |url= http://www.top40.nl/bijzondere-lijsten/top-100-jaaroverzichten/1983 |language= nl}} 20. ^{{cite book|editor-first= Peter |editor-last= Scaping |year= 1984 |title= BPI Year Book 1984 |chapter= Top 100 singles: 1983 |publisher= British Phonographic Industry |pages= 42–43 |isbn= 0-906154-04-9}} 21. ^{{cite web|title= Top 100 Hits for 1983 |publisher= The Longbored Surfer |accessdate= 6 May 2016 |url= http://longboredsurfer.com/charts/1983}} 22. ^{{cite web|url= http://cashboxmagazine.com/archives/80s_files/1983YESP.html |title= The CASH BOX Year-End Charts: 1983 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20120911042042/http://cashboxmagazine.com/archives/80s_files/1983YESP.html |archivedate= 11 September 2012}}. Cash Box. 23. ^{{cite web|title= ChartsPlusYE2001 |publisher= UKChartsPlus |accessdate= 6 May 2016 |format= PDF |url= http://www.ukchartsplus.co.uk/ChartsPlusYE2001.pdf}} External links
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