
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…