The Dreams and the Songs!
I have been having this very strange dreams, most of the time funny and weird! And there are some rare evenings when I get the creepy nightmare, and those I don’t like as you may relate.
I usually go back to sleep and then at some point I wake up with a song in my head! I usually forget quite quickly, but I am always surprised with the tune in my head, it’s so random!
The other day I woke up and the song was super clear, I didn’t know the singer, but I was able to look up the words in the chorus, which were electric avenue and there he was, Eddy Grant! I learned he is a Guyanese-British singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist and was part of the band the Equals.
But there is more! the song has quite the background, per wikipedia:
The title of the song refers to Electric Avenue in the south London district of Brixton, the first market street to be lit by electricity. According to Grant he first became aware of the existence of the street during a stint acting at the Black Theatre of Brixton.[1] The area is now known for its high population of Caribbean immigrants. At the beginning of the 1980s, as identified by the Scarman Report, tensions over unemployment, racism and poverty exacerbated by racist policing culminated in the street events now known as the 1981 Brixton riot. Grant, horrified and enraged, wrote and composed a song in response to these events. Shortly after, Grant left the UK to live in Barbados, and his most recent batch of songs was lost during baggage transit. “Electric Avenue” was one of the songs he wrote immediately afterwards to make up for the lost material.
I had no idea!
I will try to keep an eye on the upcoming songs in my head and see what I can learn, this has been a very enlightening exercise!
Brownie! 