Artist
Dexys Midnight Runners
Dexys Midnight Runners is a pop artist from Birmingham, England, UK formed in 1978. 24 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Pop · Birmingham, England, UK · Best pop albums
- 24
- Releases
- 1980–2026
- Active years
- 1978
- Formed
Artist
Dexys Midnight Runners is a pop artist from Birmingham, England, UK formed in 1978. 24 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Pop · Birmingham, England, UK · Best pop albums
Most popular
Searching for the Young Soul Rebels
1980
Too-Rye-Ay
1982
Don't Stand Me Down
1985
LOVE
2026
The Feminine Divine + Dexys Classics: Live!
2024
The Feminine Divine
2023
Too-Rye-Ay (As It Should Have Sounded 2022)
2022
Plan B (Lve)
2020
Come On Eileen (Live)
2020
Live At The Royal Court Liverpool 2003 (Live)
2019
Let The Record Show: Dexys Do Irish and Country Soul
2016
Nowhere Is Home
2014
One Day I'm Going to Soar
2012
The Projected Passion Revue
2007
It Was Like This
1996
My Life In England Pt. 1
Single · 2026
Dance With Me (Dutch Uncles Remix)
EP · 2024
My Submission
EP · 2023
Old (Single Edit Version)
Single · 2022
Come On Eileen / Dubious
Single · 2009
John Peel Session (26th February 1980, rec 26/2/80 tx 13/3/80)
EP · 2009
Kid Jensen Session (1980)
EP · 2009
Come On Eileen
Single · 1982
The Celtic Soul Brothers
Single · 1982
Dexys Midnight Runners (currently called Dexys) are an English 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. 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). The song was released on the independent Oddball Records, was named "single of the week" by Sounds, and reached number 40 in the British charts, but the next single, "Geno" – about G…