"I Don't Wanna Dance" was a UK #1 single by Eddy Grant. It was a #1 single for three weeks in November 1982. It was also released in the US in the fall of 1983.
Written and produced by Grant, it was the most successful of his solo singles in the UK and his first number one since "Baby Come Back" by The Equals in 1968.
"I Don't Wanna Dance" was covered by grindcore band Anal Cunt in 1993 on their album Morbid Florist, by the Belgian jazzy pop band Lady Linn and her Magnificent Seven in 2008, and by the Newfoundland-based folk group Shanneyganock in 2009.
Famous quotes containing the words wanna, dance and/or grant:
“Capt. Rev. Samuel Clayton: You wanna quit Ethan?
Ethan Edwards: That’ll be the day.”
—Frank S. Nugent (1908–1965)
“Ah, it is sweet on the hills,
to dance in sacred faun-pelt,
to dance until one falls faint,
to beat the sacred dance-beat
until one drops down
worn out.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)
“America had no use for Adams because he was eighteenth-century, and yet it worshipped Grant because he was archaic and should have lived in a cave and worn skins.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)