The Quiz: Which of these is a title of a 1983 hit for Eddy Grant, and not a property on a classic Monopoly board?
Baltic Avenue
Atlantic Avenue
Pacific Avenue
Electric Avenue
“Electric Avenue” is a song written and recorded by British singer Eddy Grant. In the United States, with the help of the MTV video he shot for it, it was one of the biggest hits of 1983. 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. 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 the song in response to these events.
The correct answer to this quiz is Electric Avenue.