Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Four decades ago, soulful British post-punks Dexys Midnight Runners, now simply known as Dexys, became unlikely pop superstars ...

Four decades ago, soulful British post-punks Dexys Midnight Runners, now simply known as Dexys, became unlikely pop superstars when their skiffle-inflected banjo jam “Come On Eileen” went to No. 1 in ...

Few pop songs evoke such an overwhelming, immediate rush of pure joy more than Dexys Midnight Runners’ No. 1 hit “Come On Eileen.” In the world of 1982 pop radio, there was simply nothing like it – ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Chiu is a freelance music writer based in New York. Sometime around 2016, Kevin Rowland, the driving force behind the ...

Dexys, the current version of Kevin Rowland‘s Dexys Midnight Runners, just released Feminine Divine, their first album in seven years. (Stream it below.) In support, the band have just announced ...

More than 40 years since the release of Dexys’ 1980 debut, Searching for the Young Soul Rebels, and breakthrough, Too-Rye-Ay, in 1982, which featured the band’s No. 1 hit “Come on Eileen,” Rowland ...

Dexys, Kevin Rowland’s current incarnation of Dexys Midnight Runners, were set to embark on their first North American tour in 40 years later this month, but it has now been canceled. The band write: ...

Classic Album Sundays founder Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy will be joined by Dexys’ Kevin Rowland and Jim Paterson at the Royal Albert Hall, as part of the National Album Day 2022 celebrations to discuss ...

Context is a funny thing. In the UK, Dexys Midnight Runners were a troubled institution -- a chaotic young band who couldn't stop breaking apart and reforming and who still managed to tap into some ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Storied English pop-rock band Dexys (formerly Dexys Midnight Runners) — who are ...