Eddy Grant

Eddy Grant is a musician, who had his first number one hit in 1968, when he was the lead guitarist and main songwriter of The Equals, with "Baby Come Back".

In 1982, he released the album, Killer on the Rampage, with the song "I Don't Wanna Dance" which spent three weeks at Number one in the UK Singles Chart.

His most-well known song "Electric Avenue" was both a UK and US number 2 in 1983, selling over a million copies. In 1984, Grant had a minor hit single in the US with his original song written to accompany the Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner film, Romancing the Stone. The song was Grant's last Hot 100 hit and he released the song as a single with the original video that featured scenes from the film.

"Gimme Hope Jo'anna" was written about the apartheid regime in South Africa and was subsequently banned in South Africa. He wrote other political protest songs such as "War Party" and "Living On The Front Line".

Grant set up his own recording company, Ice Records and the Coach House studio. He has also produced for the various other artists including Sting, Mick Jagger and Elvis Costello.