How we made Eddy Grant's Electric Avenue

‘I’d watched the Brixton riots. People felt they were being left behind and there was a potential for violence. The song was intended as a wake-up call’

British society in the 1960s wasn’t quite ready for my first group, the Equals, which had a multicultural lineup of three black boys and two white boys. DJs used to smash our records live on air, but we somehow made a connection with young people. Baby Come Back went to No 1, and we bought Aston Martins to show other young people that anything was possible.

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