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When he was still a young boy, his parents emigrated to the UK , where he settled. He had his first Number One hit in 1968 , when he was the lead guitarist of the multi-racial outfit, The Equals . It was his self-penned song, " Baby Come Back " that flew to the chart summit. The tune also later topped the UK charts again when covered by Pato Banton . In 1982 , his solo recording of " I Don't Wanna Dance " spent three weeks at Number 1 in the UK Singles Chart . He scored a Top Ten Album in the same year, with ''Killer On The Rampage''. His later single, "Give Me Hope Jo'anna", during the Apartheid regime ("Joanna" stands for Johannesburg , South Africa , ) was a song about apartheid in that Country. It included the lines: : Well Joanna she runs a country, she runs in Durban and Transvaal. : She makes a few of her people happy, she don't care about the rest at all. : She got a system they call apartheid, it keeps a brother in subjection. : But maybe pressure will make Joanna see, how everybody can live as one. " Electric Avenue " was both a UK and U.S. number 2 in 1983 , selling over a million copies. Plus, a later remix of the song was a UK Top Ten hit again in 2001 . In 1984 Eddy Grant had a 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 also called "Romancing the Stone." Eddy set up his own recording company, ICE Records, but more recently has returned to the West Indies from London, choosing Barbados as a more realistic venue for a recording company, rather than his country of origin. He has also produced the likes of Sting , Mick Jagger and Elvis Costello . UK CHART SINGLES
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