Going for Broke by Eddy Grant

Going for Broke, Eddy Grant's seventh studio album, came out on Portrait in 1984 with the unenviable job of following Killer on the Rampage, a major success for the Guyanese-born British singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who had started out in the Equals. He stuck with the approach that had worked, the same reggae-rooted, genre-hopping mix of sticky grooves and socially conscious lyrics, but this time the payoff was smaller.

The big one was "Romancing the Stone", meant for the 1984 film of the same name and even announced on American Top 40 as its title song, only to end up barely used in the movie itself; clips from the film still appeared in a video for it, and the closing credits give it a mention. It became a US hit anyway. "Till I Can't Take Love No More" and "Boys in the Street" followed as singles, and the video for the latter went into MTV rotation that October.

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