I Don't Wanna Dance" was a UK number one single for three weeks in November 1982 for Eddy Grant. 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.
I Don't Wanna Dance" was a UK number one single for three weeks in November 1982 for Eddy Grant. 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.