Context is a funny thing. In the UK, Dexys Midnight Runners were a troubled institution -- a chaotic young band who couldn't stop breaking apart and reforming and who still managed to tap into some ...

Four decades ago, soulful British post-punks Dexys Midnight Runners, now simply known as Dexys, became unlikely pop superstars when their skiffle-inflected banjo jam “Come On Eileen” went to No. 1 in ...

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 like it – ...

Kevin Rowland, frontman of Dexys Midnight Runners — now known as Dexys — joins Yahoo Entertainment’s Lyndsey Parker to talk about how his conservative upbringing informed the 1982 hit “Come on Eileen” ...

To most of the world, Dexys Midnight Runners are the definition of a one-hit wonder. In reality, however, they achieved significantly more success in their homeland. The British band is best known for ...

With the launch of MTV in 1981, British bands swept into the U.S. with bright and edgy pop. Among the groups that had immediate success was Dexys Midnight Runners, with the hit “Come On Eileen.” ...

(CBS 11) - If you are into 80s pop/rock music, you know about Dexys Midnight Runners. This band is British, originally from Birmingham, England. They formed in 1978 and were active through 1986, then ...

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,” Rowland ...

Formed in Birmingham, England in 1978, 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 ...

With the launch of MTV in 1981, British bands swept into the U.S. with bright and edgy pop. Among the groups that had immediate success was Dexys Midnight Runners, with the hit “Come On Eileen.” ...