"Dancing in the Streets"

The first Handsworth riot took place between September 9-11, 1985. The Number One song in the UK that week was David Bowie and Mick Jagger's cover of "Dancing in the Streets",  a 1964 song written by Marvin Gaye, William Stevenson and Ivy Jo Hunter and made famous by Martha and the Vandellas later that year.

Martha and the Vandellas' version entered the U.S. charts on August 22, 1964, the same day Mary Lou Hamer gave this speech at the Democratic National Convention: