Formed in 1965, this group was fronted by
Eddy Grant with Derv and Lincoln Gordon from Jamaica, along with Pat Lloyd and
John Hall. The group also had the twins Lincoln and Derv Wilson.
Their only
single as The Equal sin the 1970s was Black Skinned Blue Eyed Boys which to No.
9 in the UK.
Eddie was born in 1948 in Guyana and moved
to the UK in the 1960s and played with a band in North London. Eddy suffered
from a collapsed lung in 1971 and had to leave the group, he also had heart
issues and after his rest he went solo. He released three albums in the 1970s
that all went nowhere at all.
Eddy did not give in and in the 1979 had
come back fighting with Living On The Front Line. A 1979 top twenty UK hit on
the Mercury label. Bigger things were to come in the 1980s with Electric
Avenue. Although The Equals only just touched the 1970s as a group, Eddy would
remain a huge influence in pop culture just as he did in the 1960s and the
1980s.
