We will never forget the night we caught Dexy’s Midnight Runners in LA in 1981.  The big band came out on stage, horns-a-blaring, and immediately set the joint ablaze with Kevin Rowland and crew nailing their early songs, Geno, Come On Eileen, Tell Me When My Light Turns Green and, of course, Burn It Down (Dance Stance).  Unfortunately, the band rarely returned to the States and disbanded in the mid-’80s.  Rowland and various band members reappeared in various permutations over the years, but never really captured that light in that bottle again.

The good news:  the Dexys are back together again, and have a new album coming out in early June entitled One Day I’m Going to Soar.  In advance of the new album’s release, the Dexys appeared on Later Live with Jools Holland.  Check out the reconstitution below performing their new song Free off the new album, and their mega-hit from ’81, Come On Eileen.

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