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Dexys Midnight Runners

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Album Releases

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Let The Record Show: Dexy (2016)	One Day I'm Going to Soar (2012)	Don't Stand Me Down (1985)
Too-Rye-Ay (1982)	Searching for the Young S (1980)

Members
9 Mixed

Popularity

62

Followers
289,699

Origin
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Birmingham, England, UK

Genre
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Pop

Style
Rock/Pop

Mood
Excitable

Born

1978

Active
1978 to Present...

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Alternate Name
Dexys

Most Loved Tracks

Track	Last.FM Listens	Youtube views	Loves
Come On Eileen	3,528,742	720,983 views	6 users
Geno	264,717		5 users
Jackie Wilson Said (I'm in Heaven When You Smile)	69,510		3 users
Burn It Down	41,680		1 users
I Couldn't Help If I Tried			1 users
Let's Make This Precious	48,128	176,731 views	1 users

Music Video Links

There, There, My Dear	Let's Make This Precious	Come On Eileen
Jackie Wilson Said	Geno

Artist Biography
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Dexys Midnight Runners is een Britse popgroep uit Birmingham aangevoerd door zanger/gitarist Kevin Rowland (17 augustus 1953, Wolverhampton); de band bestond (officieel) van 1978 tot en met 1986. In 2003 werd de draad weer opgepakt onder de naam Dexys.
Kevin Rowland (vocals, guitar, at the time going under the pseudonym Carlo Rolan) and Kevin "Al" Archer (vocals, guitar), both previously of the Killjoys, founded the band in 1978 in Birmingham, England, naming the band after Dexedrine, a brand of dextroamphetamine popularly used as a recreational drug among Northern Soul fans at the time. The "midnight runners" referred to the energy the Dexedrine gave, enabling one to dance all night. "Big" Jim Paterson (trombone), Geoff "JB" Blythe (saxophone, previously of Geno Washington's Ram Jam Band), Steve "Babyface" Spooner (alto saxophone), Pete Saunders (keyboard), Pete Williams (bass) and Bobby "Jnr" Ward (drums) formed the first line-up of the band to record a single, "Dance Stance" (1979)