Q 01/05

Eddy Grant wrote Electric Avenue in anger at 1981 riots in which London district?

A) Tottenham

B) Brixton

C) Hackney

D) Lewisham

Answer · why

B) Brixton

Brixton is home to the real Electric Avenue, the first market street to be lit by electricity, which Grant knew from a spell acting at a local Black t...

Q 02/05

Eddy Grant wrote Electric Avenue in a hurry in 1982 after what happened to his newest songs?

A) Lost in airline baggage

B) Destroyed in a studio fire

C) Stolen from his car

D) Erased from the tapes

Answer · why

A) Lost in airline baggage

Lost in airline baggage as Grant moved to the Caribbean, the songs never turned up, so he had to write a whole new album from scratch.

Q 03/05

Which politician did Eddy Grant sue in 2020 for using Electric Avenue in a campaign video?

A) Joe Biden

B) Mike Pence

C) Bernie Sanders

D) Donald Trump

Answer · why

D) Donald Trump

Donald Trump had posted the animated clip online, where it drew more than 13 million views; a court rejected his fair-use defence in 2024 and the two ...

Q 04/05

In Eddy Grant's anti-apartheid hit Gimme Hope Jo'anna, the name Jo'anna stands for which city?

A) Pretoria

B) Cape Town

C) Johannesburg

D) Port Elizabeth

Answer · why

C) Johannesburg

Johannesburg stood in for the whole apartheid government, which banned the single on release, though it was widely played in South Africa all the same...

Q 05/05

Eddy Grant's Electric Avenue lost the Best R&B Song Grammy to which 1983 smash?

A) Little Red Corvette

B) All Night Long

C) Ain't Nobody

D) Billie Jean

Answer · why

D) Billie Jean

Billie Jean, by Michael Jackson, had months earlier pushed MTV to play Black artists, and once the channel aired Grant's video his single climbed quic...