I’d have stuck with the original Dexys Midnight Runners look we started in 1978, which became known as the New Romantic look a couple of years later. Our management and record label talked us out of it. Later, Duran Duran and Spandau came out with that look and that made us look old-fashioned.
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Kevin Rowland
British singer
United Kingdom · b. 1953
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Born in Wolverhampton, Kevin Rowland, 71, was a hairdresser before forming Dexys Midnight Runners. The band had their first hit in 1980 with Geno. In 1982, Come On Eileen was Britain’s bestselling single; the following year, it went to No 1 in the US. Over five decades, Dexys released six studio albums including The Feminine Divine in 2023. As a solo artist, Rowland released two albums, The Wanderer in 1988 and My Beauty in 1999. Bless Me Father, Rowland’s memoir, has just been published. He lives in London and has a daughter.
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The contentment I have now.
My brother Pete passing on in 2005.
Gerry Adams, because he’s got incredible integrity and vision, and he’s had to put up with so much flak.
I worked in the stores of Edgware hospital when I was about 17, and it was grey and depressing.
Insanity. I am on a recovery programme – clean from drugs and drink for many years – and if I stopped doing all that stuff I’d go crazy pretty quick and pick up drugs again, because I was a real fucking addict.
Shakespeare said, “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so” – I think that’s true.
My dad said, “You’re going nowhere.” I was seven or eight.
On stage – the Old Vic in 1981 and Glastonbury last year.
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