Dexys Midnight Runners (now Dexys), pulled their name from the drug Dexedrine, which was used as a “pep pill” by the 1960s. The second half of the band’s name referred to the energy the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dexys – formerly known as Dexys Midnight Runners – have announced their first new album of original music in over a decade, and shared the lead single ‘I’m Going To Get Free’. Check it ...

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 ...

Well, except for karaoke, of course. Dexys, formerly known as Dexys Midnight Runners, are embarking on a 12-concert tour supporting their sixth studio album “The Feminine Divine” this fall ...

Andy Leek, one of the founding members of the band Dexys Midnight Runners, has passed away. He was only 66 years old and died after a tough, lengthy battle with Parkinson’s disease. He was set ...

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