(1-35 of 35 song lyrics)Average rating for Dexys Midnight Runners songs is 7.66/10 [438 votes]. Selected popular Dexys Midnight Runners song of Thursday, November 21 2024 is "There, There, My Dear".
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Live at the Royal Court Liverpool 2003 [2019]
John Peel Session (26th February 1980, Rec 26/2/80 TX 13/3/80) - EP [2009]
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" or "purple hearts," a type of amphetamine diet pill that was a popular "upper" drug with England's Northern Soul scene in the 1960s. Founded by former singer of the Killjoys, Kevin Rowland and guitarist Kevin "Al" Archer, in Birmingham (UK) 1978. The band name was taken from a colloquialism for dextroamphetamine (ie, "dexies" or "dexys"), a drug commonly abused by the UK's Mod/Northern Soul... read more