Reminisce (Part Two)" includes "I'll Say Forever My Love" (James Dean, William Weatherspoon, Stephen Bowden). a b Smith, Adam (16 March 2022). "Dexy's cancel 40th anniversary Come On Eileen tour due to motorbike accident". Express & Star. Archived from the original on 16 March 2022 . Retrieved 16 March 2022. Dexys Midnight Runners were founded in 1978 in Birmingham, England, by Kevin Rowland (vocals, guitar, at the time using the pseudonym Carlo Rolan) [5] and Kevin "Al" Archer (vocals, guitar). Both had been in the short-lived punk band the Killjoys. Rowland had previously written a Northern soul-style song that the two of them sang, "Tell Me When My Light Turns Green", which became the first Dexys "song". [6] The band's name was derived from Dexedrine, a brand of dextroamphetamine used as a recreational drug among Northern soul fans to give them energy to dance all night. [5] While recruiting members for the new band, Rowland noted that "Anyone joining Dexys had to give up their job and rehearse all day long... We had nothing to lose and felt that what we were doing was everything." [6] "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 John Jay (drums) formed the first lineup of the band, which began playing live at the end of 1978. [7] Chiu, David (10 July 2015). "Goodbye Is Forever: Duran Duran, Live Aid & the End of the Second British Invasion". Medium. Archived from the original on 10 January 2017 . Retrieved 15 January 2017. Press Office – BBC says fond farewell to Top of the Pops". BBC. 20 June 2006. Archived from the original on 13 November 2019 . Retrieved 30 January 2020.

Don't Stand Me Down is the third studio album by English pop band Dexys Midnight Runners, released in September 1985 by Mercury Records. The title of the album was inspired by a line in the album's song "The Waltz". a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Simpson, Dave (16 October 2014). " 'We were always hard workers': Kevin Rowland and Big Jim Paterson on their favourite Dexys songs". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 8 November 2020 . Retrieved 24 January 2016. Kevin Rowland and Helen O'Hara give rare interviews about a pivotal time in Dexys Midnight Runners' history. Having been the best-selling UK band of 1982 with their massive hit single Come On Eileen and the hugely popular album Too-Rye-Ay, Dexys took some time to consider what to do next. Cooper, Leonie (10 February 2012). "Dexys Midnight Runners to release first new album in 27 years". NME.com. Archived from the original on 29 January 2020 . Retrieved 30 January 2020. Documentary Nowhere is Home – a Film about Dexys". walesartreview.com. 22 May 2014. Archived from the original on 22 December 2015 . Retrieved 9 November 2015.Dexys made its only two live appearances of 2016 to support this release: one at a private reception at the Embassy of Ireland in London on 6 June and one at Rough Trade East in London on 3 June. [46] They also performed two songs on the ITV program Weekend on 11 June. [47] For these three performances, O'Hara temporarily rejoined Dexys in place of Morgan, who was unavailable. [46] By the middle of 1979, Bobby "Jnr" Ward had replaced Jay on drums. [7] Clash manager Bernard Rhodes then signed them and sent them into the studio to record a Rowland-penned single, "Burn It Down", which Rhodes renamed " Dance Stance". [5] [6] In response to Rhodes' criticism of Rowland's singing style, Rowland developed a "more emotional" sound influenced by General Norman Johnson of the Holland–Dozier–Holland band Chairmen of the Board [8] and the theatricality of Bryan Ferry. [2] Key, Iain (3 April 2023). "Watch This! New Dexys single and album announcement". Louder Than War. Archived from the original on 4 April 2023 . Retrieved 4 April 2023. Because the band's lineup had been reduced to a quartet by the time of the recording, a number of performers and session musicians filled the other roles during the lengthy recording sessions, including Vincent Crane (ex- Atomic Rooster) on piano, Julian Littman on mandolin, Tim Dancy (who had been Al Green's drummer) on drums, Tommy Evans on steel guitar, and former Dexys members "Big" Jim Paterson on trombone, John "Rhino" Edwards on bass, and Robert Noble on organ and synthesizer. In an interview with HitQuarters Gatfield later described the recording process as "very long and painful", [22] and he left the group after a short tour of France and the UK. The album's most controversial feature was its use of conversational dialogue in the songs; [23] Rowland said, "The idea of a conversation in a song is interesting to me." [24] Commenting on this, O'Hara said that "we had to keep going ahead with what we believed" despite the length of time that the production took. [25] Most contemporaneous reviewers strongly disliked this latest incarnation of Dexys, comparing the new look to "double glazing salesmen" and condemning the album as "a mess" and "truly awful". [21] [26] [27] Only a few reviewers were supportive; for example, writing in the Melody Maker, Colin Irwin described it as "quite the most challenging, absorbing, moving, uplifting and ultimately triumphant album of the year". [28]

Some reviewers were highly critical, [4] with Trouser Press characterizing the release as "a torpid snore that denies entertainment on every level", although writing in the Melody Maker, Colin Irwin described it as "quite the most challenging, absorbing, moving, uplifting and ultimately triumphant album of the year". [7] The album is now considered something of a lost treasure: it was featured in 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, published in 2006 by Universe, where it was referred to as "a towering achievement... a Pet Sounds for the 1980s". [8] Writing for Uncut in 2007, Paul Moody called it a "neglected masterpiece". [2] a b c d Kinney, Fergal (26 October 2014). "Dexy's: Nowhere is Home – Kevin Rowland and Jim Paterson in depth interview". Louder Than War. Archived from the original on 15 April 2016 . Retrieved 1 April 2016. On the original issue, just Alan Winstanley and Rowland were credited as producers, but Adams and O'Hara were added as co-producers in 1997, when the CD was reissued on Creation Records; at the same time, the titles to two of the songs were changed. During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Dexys went through numerous personnel changes over the course of three albums and 13 singles, with only singer/songwriter/co-founder Kevin Rowland remaining in the band through all of the transitions and only Rowland and "Big" Jim Paterson (trombone) appearing on all of the albums. By 1985, the band consisted only of Rowland and long-standing members Helen O'Hara (violin) and Billy Adams (guitar). The band broke up in 1987, with Rowland becoming a solo artist. After two failed restart attempts, Dexys was reformed by Rowland in 2003 with new members, as well as a few returning members from the band's original lineup (known as Dexys Mark I). Dexys released their fourth album in 2012 and a fifth followed in 2016.With Paterson and Billingham's departures, the core of Dexys became Rowland, Adams, and O'Hara. In September, touring behind the hit album, Dexys embarked on The Bridge tour. [7] On 10 October 1982, the Dexys performance at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London was recorded by Steve Barron and then released on videodisk and videocassette (and later DVD) as an edited 9-song set also entitled The Bridge. Let the Record Show - Dexys Do Irish and Country Soul by Dexys Midnight Runners". Official Charts. The Official UK Charts Company . Retrieved 3 August 2023. In September 1985, Dexys released their first new album in three years, Don't Stand Me Down. [7] Production was originally credited to Alan Winstanley and Rowland, although reissues also credit Adams and O'Hara. [21] The four remaining members were pictured on the album cover in the band's fourth look, an Ivy League, Brooks Brothers look, [7] wearing ties and pin-striped suits (except for O'Hara, who wore a grey women's business suit), and with neatly combed hair. Rowland described Dexys' new look as "so clean and simple; it's a much more adult approach now". [9] Just booked: Dexys to perform at York Barbican". YorkMix. 6 September 2021. Archived from the original on 8 September 2021 . Retrieved 8 September 2021. After more treatment, Rowland returned once more as a solo performer and signed to Creation Records, although, in his words, "every other record label advised [Creation] against it because I was trouble." [8] In 1997, he released his first project on Creation: a remastered and reprocessed version of Don't Stand Me Down with extensive liner notes, revised credits and titles, and two extra songs, which helped contribute to a significant reversal of opinion with regard to the album, which was now increasingly being re-evaluated and recognized as an unfairly overlooked masterwork. [29] [23] Following this, in 1999 Rowland released a new solo album of interpretations of "classic" songs called My Beauty, which received virtually no publicity or radio airplay and sold poorly but attracted attention for Rowland's cross-dressing cover attire. [8] [29] Rowland limited his pre-release publicity for the album to one interview, and he "auditioned" potential interviewers before selecting Jon Wilde. [8] However, the negative reaction to My Beauty and the demise of Creation Records shortly after its release meant that Rowland's planned follow-up album, which would have featured Dexys performing new material, was never made. The failure caused Rowland more problems; in his own words from 2003, "Four years ago, I was nuts." [29] Later, in March 2010, Rowland said that signing to Creation was "definitely a mistake". [31] Dexys Mark IV: 2003–present [ edit ] Dexys reformed [ edit ]