"Electric Avenue" is a song written, recorded and produced by Eddy Grant, from his 1982 album Killer on the Rampage. In the United States, with the help of the MTV video, it was one of 1983's biggest hits of the year. The song's title refers to an area historically known as Electric Avenue; a reference to the first place electricity lighted the streets in the market area of Brixton, South of London. This is an area known in the modern times for its high population of Caribbean immigrants and high unemployment. Tensions grew until violence hit the street now known as the 1981 Brixton riot. A year later, this song played over the airwaves.