Electric Avenue is a street in Brixton, London. Built in the 1880s, it was the first market street to be lit by electricity. Today, the street contains several butchers and fish mongers and hosts a part of Brixton Market, which specializes in selling a mix of African, Caribbean, and Portuguese products. It is located just round the corner from Brixton tube station (1972). The elegant Victorian canopies over the pavements survived until the 1980s.
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The road gave its name to Eddy Grant's 1982 single "Electric Avenue", which reached #2 on both the UK and U.S. singles charts.[1]
Bombing [link]
On 17 April 1999 the neo-nazi bomber David Copeland planted a nail bomb outside a supermarket in Electric Avenue (junction with Brixton Road) with the intention of igniting a race war across Britain.[2] The bomb went off, injuring 39 people. Copeland planted two more bombs before he was caught: on 24 April in Brick Lane in the East End of London, which has a large South Asian community; and on 30 April in the Admiral Duncan pub in Soho's Old Compton Street, the heart of London's gay community. The bomb killed three. He was later caught and sentenced to serve six life terms.
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- ^ Laurel A. Saunders (2007). I Have Wings, So Why Am I Here?. Trafford Publishing. pp. 145. ISBN 978-1-4251-1936-2. https://books.google.com/books?id=-4F82HNfrPkC&pg=PA145&dq=electric+avenue+became+the+first+shopping+street&hl=en&ei=hPDWTJGpFIq-sQODkJ2NCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCwQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=electric%20avenue%20became%20the%20first%20shopping%20street&f=false.
- ^ "Profile: Copeland the killer". BBC News. 30 June, 2000. https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/781755.stm. Retrieved 2011-04-16.
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Coordinates: 51°27′44″N 0°06′50″W / 51.46229°N 0.11377°W
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Electric Avenue (TV series)
A programme from the 1988 BBC series 'Electric Avenue' was a late-night TV Series follow on from Micro Live broadcast in 1988/90 and presented by Fred Harris.
Programmes
The series was split into 11 programmes, each about 24 minutes long and dealing with a particular subject area. They were as follows (original airdates in brackets):
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Plug-in electric vehicles in the United States
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As of January 2016, there were 26 highway legal plug-in cars available in the American market from over a dozen car manufacturers, plus several models of electric motorcycles, utility vans and neighborhood electric vehicles (NEVs). As of December 2015, cumulative sales are led by the Nissan Leaf with 89,591 units, followed by the Chevrolet Volt with 88,750 units. Ranking third is the Tesla Model S with 63,161 units. The Model S was the top selling plug-in car in the U.S. in 2015.As of 31 January 2016, the United States had 12,203 charging stations across the country, led by California with 2,976 stations (24.4%). In terms of public charging points, there were 30,669 public outlets available across the country by the end of January 2016, again led by California with 9,086 charging points (29.6%).
Electric Avenue (disambiguation)
Electric Avenue is a market street in Brixton, London, England.
Electric Avenue may also refer to:
Electric Avenue (song)
"Electric Avenue" is an RIAA platinum-certified single by Eddy Grant, from his 1982 album Killer on the Rampage. In the United States (U.S.), it was one of 1983's biggest hits of the year. The song's lyrics refer to the 1981 Brixton riot, the title referring to Electric Avenue, a market street in the Brixton area of London.
It was initially released as a single in 1982, and reached #2 on the UK Singles Chart. In March 1983, CBS decided to launch the single in the U.S., where it spent five weeks at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 (kept out of the top spot by a combination of two songs, "Flashdance... What a Feeling" by Irene Cara and that year's song of the summer, "Every Breath You Take" by The Police) and hit #1 in Cash Box magazine. "Electric Avenue" was a hit on two other US charts: On the soul chart it went to #18. On the dance charts, it peaked at #6.
The song is featured in the films, Pineapple Express, Wrong Turn 2: Dead End and Jackass 3D. This song is also featured in Season 1, Episode 14 of the series 3rd Rock from the Sun.
Podcasts:
Electric Avenue
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- Best of Bonzaï, Volume 2 released: 2002
- Recon' Version released: 2001
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Electric Avenue
by: RenaissanceBrought up and lived by the modern age
Brought a new spot to my life
I love the power you have over me
Amaze my friends and set me free
Here we are walking in step
We've got ideas that we haven't used yet
There's so much left that I want to do
Automatically I think of you
You beginning and you to end
You were the first you never bend
You walk beside me everywhere I go
Our secret's safe they'll never know
But here we are walking on down Electric avenue
Part of today in every way Electric avenue
I'm insecure and I'm not so sure
Cause you mean this much to me
Your heart is cold and you won't grow old
I'm full of tricks so watch and see
I can disappear without a trace
Just say the word I'll be gone from this place
There's so much left that I want to do
I'm automatic that I think of you
You beginning and you to end
You were the first you never bend
You walk beside me everywhere I go
Our secret's safe they'll never know
But here we are walking on down Electric avenue
Part of today in every way Electric avenue
You beginning and you to end
You were the first you never bend
You walk beside me everywhere I go