Dexys Midnight Runners in Dutch

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Dexys Midnight Runners

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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)

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9 Mixed

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Birmingham, England, UK

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Pop

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Rock/Pop

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Excitable

Born

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1978 to Present...

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Alternate Name
Dexys

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Dexys Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen
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Dexys Midnight Runners - Geno
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Dexys Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen

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

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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)