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 ...

The "one-hit wonder" tag is always more complicated than it sounds. The phrase implies a band or artist excelled just the one time; sometimes that's true, and sometimes the listening public has a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Chiu is a freelance music writer based in New York. Sometime around 2016, Kevin Rowland, the driving force behind the ...

Last year, Ted Leo played a St. Patrick’s Day show at Brooklyn’s Bell House where he led a Dexys Midnight Runners tribute act called Too-Rye-Ay. While the that show was certainly fun, Dexys are not a ...

Andy Leek, one of the founding members of the band Dexys Midnight Runners, has passed away. He was only 66 years old and died after a tough, lengthy battle with Parkinson’s disease. He was set to ...