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Dexy's Midnight Runners

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Dexys Midnight Runners are a British pop group with soul influences, who achieved their major success in the early to mid 1980s. They are best known for their songs "Come On Eileen" and "Geno", both of which went No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart. Career 1978-1980: Foundation and first singles: 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...

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Discography

  • Let's Make This Precious: The Best of Dexys Midnight Runners, 2003
  • Searching for the Young Soul Rebels, 1988
  • Too-Rye-Ay, 1996
  • Dance Stance / I'm Just Looking, 1979
  • The Projected Passion Revue, 2007
  • Don't Stand Me Down, 1985
  • There, There My Dear, 1980
  • BBC Radio One Live in Concert, 1995
  • Master Series: Dexys Midnight Runners, 1996
  • The Very Best of Dexys Midnight Runners, 1991
  • Show Me / Soon, 1981
  • Geno, 1983
  • Because of You, 1993
  • 1980-1982: The Radio 1 Sessions, 1995
  • Come On Eileen, 1987
  • Don't Stand Me Down: The Director's Cut, 2002
  • The Very Best Of
  • It Was Like This, 1996

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On Nov 18, 2009. 10:13pm
Tegan said

Thank you, thank you, thank you for finding that LIVE video of Come on Eileen. just wonderful.

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