"Man Next Door" (also known as "Quiet Place" or "I've Got to Get Away") is a song composed and adapted by John Holt and first recorded by his group The Paragons in 1968.
[1] The song has been covered by numerous other reggae artists including Dennis Brown, UB40 and Horace Andy who also sang on a more electronic version of the song for the Massive Attack album Mezzanine, with samples of the drum break from Led Zeppelin's cover of "When the Levee Breaks"[2] and The Cure's "10:15 Saturday Night".
's rap version, while Horace Andy's "Quiet Place" was used as the basis of deejay versions from Dr Alimantado ("Poison Flour" and "I Shall Fear No Evil"), I-Roy ("Noisy Place") and The Dirty Heads ("Neighborhood").
U-Roy recorded a deejay version of the song with "Peace and Love in the Ghetto" and later again in his album Solid Gold, with the participation of Santigold.
[5] In 2012, the electronic music group Sweet Valley sampled "Man Next Door" in their track "Golden Gauntlet".