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Yes, he says, the project sprang from a dark place: by the end of the 80s, Dexys had split following a lacklustre reaction to what many now regard as their masterpiece, Don’t Stand Me Down. In 2012 Rowland re-launched Dexys Midnight Runners as "Dexys" with a new album Since around 2005, Rowland has hosted a popular DJ tour in clubs and venues throughout the UK.
And Kevin is his own man. He doesn’t understand me! Does this mean Springsteen has heard it himself? It’s not a gimmick.”Besides, he adds, “the people saying the dress was all part of my craziness and that I was mad – well, not to be disparaging, but they wouldn’t exactly be the people I was going to for style tips.”Perhaps the peak of the criticism came during his infamous appearance at Reading and Leeds festival where he performed a short guest spot dressed in a white dress and stockings. "Prices on an ounce [of weed] have gone up from £160 to £240. IMDB Wikipedia.

If there’s anybody next to you about to throw a bottle do me a favour – stop.’ And a big round of applause came out from the crowd. Kevin Rowland is a very dapper gent. “I just get on so much better with young people,” says Rowland. “There’s a part of you that starts to believe it,” he says.

As lead singer in Dexys Midnight Runners, he was responsible for the perennial floor-filler "Come On Eileen". Kevin Rowland: ‘I woke up at 3am with my chest so tight I thought that was it’ The Dexys star on his his brush with Covid-19, the misunderstood My Beauty album, and rediscovering his femininity I had lots of demons and pain in me, but they really came out in the last three years of my cocaine addiction.

I can’t wait for the new Dexys record, which will be out in 2012. I’d started having panic attacks – traumatic events where I’d be out of the house and suddenly feel like I had no control over my body or mind – and when I received medication for those I was left bed-bound with depression.At the time it felt like I’d never get better.

Published: 10 … I'm lucky. How many of us can say that? “You can’t pretend to be a murderer … but you can find something, a memory within you, that will make you very angry so that you feel like you could murder.” He built a little cocoon in the studio around the microphone, decorated it with clothes and photographs that triggered the painful memories, and sang his heart out: Greatest Love of All offers striking vulnerability (“It’s over, no more. This is a truth acknowledged by all right-thinking people.

Four, five, maybe six. Kevin Rowland was born on August 17, 1953 in Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England.


© 2020 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. It wasn’t until several years later that the album finally made sense to me. Would I still wear those clothes? Now, with Springsteen’s management’s approval, the album can be heard as was originally intended. I think that’s what it was for me when I heard Greatest Love in the car. Kevin Rowland Parents. That people got so worked up about what someone was He sighs. It was a way out of it.”Since then, I’ve come to regard My Beauty as one of the most misunderstood albums of all time. I finished it with more gusto than I’d had previously and we walked off victorious.”The Leeds leg he admits was trickier. “It really was,” says Rowland. For a period of time I probably did deny that feminine side of myself, because of the reaction. That’s it! Two decades on, he hits back – and relives the night he thought Covid-19 was going to kill himIndeed, what really strikes you, as My Beauty gears up for a 21st-birthday reissue on pink vinyl, is just how well it chimes with the current times. But I got into a programme of recovery in '93 and that was like my protection. His parents emigrated from Crossmolina, County Mayo, Ireland in … He became hooked on cocaine – “not doing too many drugs, hopelessly addicted”, he emphasises – and was living in a squat. “I Still, he knows we’re in a more open-minded era now. 2: Before achieving fame in Dexys Midnight Runners, he was a member of an art-rock band called Lucy And The Lovers, who were heavily influenced by Deaf School. “I don’t know what happened, man, it was highly unusual, because I’d never registered that song before, if anything I thought it was corny. “Can you believe it?