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Dexys Midnight Runners

Dexys Midnight Runners has been played on NTS shows including Yesterday's News, with Geno first played on 9 June 2013.

Dexys Midnight Runners - the name consistently spelled without an apostrophe - were a British post-punk and Northern Soul band who achieved their major success in the early to mid 1980s. The word Dexys in this case, comes from a colloquialism of dextroamphetamine, a type of amphetamine diet pill that was a popular 'upper' drug with England's Northern Soul scene in the 1960s.

Founded in 1978 by former singer of the Killjoys, Kevin Rowland, and guitarist Kevin "Al" Archer, in Birmingham (United Kingdom), the band was…

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Come On Eileen
Dexys Midnight Runners, The Emerald Express
Mercury1982
Come On Eileen
Dexys Midnight Runners, The Emerald ExpressMercury1982
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This Is What She's Like
Dexys Midnight Runners
EMI2003
This Is What She's Like
Dexys Midnight RunnersEMI2003
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Jackie Wilson Said
Dexy's Midnight Runners
Old Gold1989
Jackie Wilson Said
Dexy's Midnight RunnersOld Gold1989
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Geno
Dexys Midnight Runners
EMI2000
Geno
Dexys Midnight RunnersEMI2000
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Geno
Dexy's Midnight Runners
Late Night Feelings1980
Geno
Dexy's Midnight RunnersLate Night Feelings1980
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Seven Days Too Long
Dexys Midnight Runners
Parlophone, Late Night Feelings1980
Seven Days Too Long
Dexys Midnight RunnersParlophone, Late Night Feelings1980
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