St Pauls, Bristol the British African-Caribbean community organised the Bristol Bus Boycott to protest against the racist employment policy of the Bristol Omnibus Company which operated a colour bar, refusing employment to non-white workers as bus crews. This policy was overturned in August of that year after sixty days of protest and the action helped establish the Race Relations Act 1968. A riot followed a police raid on the Black and White Café in St Pauls on 2 April 1980. The St Pauls riot started when the police entered the Black and White Café, knowing that the premises was being used for drug
Riot in English were release from the album. The lead single "Simon Simon" managed to be successful in dance charts, peaking inside the top forty on the "Billboard" Dance Club Songs chart. However, the following singles "Riot in English" and "Overtime" failed to chart. Joe Viglione from AllMusic gave the album three and a half out of five stars. He praised Bozzio's lyrics saying that "she knows how to pull a chic cliché and envelope it" and also added that Prince gave her "the opportunity to prove she's as charming on record as she is in person and a talent in her own