Don't Stand Me Down (The Director's Cut)

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a b Paphides, Pete (17 May 2012). "Dexys Midnight Runners: Don't Stand Me Down". BBC. Archived from the original on 8 March 2021 . Retrieved 4 July 2018. The song "It's Alright Kevin (Manhood 2023)" is a re-recorded version of the song "Manhood" which was released before on the 2003 compilation album Let's Make This Precious: The Best of Dexys Midnight Runners and on the live album At The Royal Court 2003. Petridis, Alexis (27 July 2023). "Dexys: The Feminine Divine review – Kevin Rowland worships at the altar of women". The Guardian . Retrieved 1 August 2023. a b "Dexys announce special London performances". The Irish World. 25 May 2016. Archived from the original on 26 May 2016 . Retrieved 30 June 2016. Dance Stance", which Rhodes produced, was released on Oddball Records, which Rhodes owned, and which was distributed by EMI. [7] Although it was named "single of the week" by Sounds, [5] it stalled at number 40 in the British charts, [7] which EMI and Rowland believed was due to Rhodes' poor production. [6] Rowland said, "We learned that early on, that the wrong producer can totally screw your record up." [6] As a result, Dexys fired Rhodes and signed with EMI, and EMI immediately put Pete Wingfield in charge of their production. [6] Saunders and Ward left the band, replaced by Andy Leek (keyboards) and Andy "Stoker" Growcott (drums). [7] Searching for the Young Soul Rebels and first band split [ edit ]

Mason, Phil (3 December 2013). "Searching for the Old(er) Soul Rebel: An Interview with Dexys' Kevin Rowland". PopMatters.com. Archived from the original on 13 February 2016 . Retrieved 13 February 2016. The band performed two new songs, "Manhood" and "If I Ever", on the UK Channel 4 TV show Saturday Zoo

Just booked: Dexys to perform at York Barbican". YorkMix. 6 September 2021. Archived from the original on 8 September 2021 . Retrieved 8 September 2021. Curran, Shaun (21 July 2023). "The Feminine Divine: Dexys". Record Collector . Retrieved 1 August 2023. Archer (and Leek) eventually formed The Blue Ox Babes, while the other departing members—Blythe, Spooner, Williams, "Stoker", and Talbot—formed The Bureau, which Wingfield continued to produce. With Paterson and Billingham's departures, the core of Dexys became Rowland, Adams, and O'Hara. In September, touring behind the hit album, Dexys embarked on The Bridge tour. [7] On 10 October 1982, the Dexys performance at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London was recorded by Steve Barron and then released on videodisk and videocassette (and later DVD) as an edited 9-song set also entitled The Bridge. Some reviewers were highly critical, [4] with Trouser Press characterizing the release as "a torpid snore that denies entertainment on every level", although writing in the Melody Maker, Colin Irwin described it as "quite the most challenging, absorbing, moving, uplifting and ultimately triumphant album of the year". [7] The album is now considered something of a lost treasure: it was featured in 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, published in 2006 by Universe, where it was referred to as "a towering achievement... a Pet Sounds for the 1980s". [8] Writing for Uncut in 2007, Paul Moody called it a "neglected masterpiece". [2]

a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Simpson, Dave (16 October 2014). " 'We were always hard workers': Kevin Rowland and Big Jim Paterson on their favourite Dexys songs". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 8 November 2020 . Retrieved 24 January 2016. Happy Birthday: Siobhan Fahey of Bananarama". Rhino Records. Archived from the original on 16 February 2016 . Retrieved 12 February 2016.

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Key, Iain (3 April 2023). "Watch This! New Dexys single and album announcement". Louder Than War. Archived from the original on 4 April 2023 . Retrieved 4 April 2023.

a b c d Kinney, Fergal (26 October 2014). "Dexy's: Nowhere is Home – Kevin Rowland and Jim Paterson in depth interview". Louder Than War. Archived from the original on 15 April 2016 . Retrieved 1 April 2016. Cooper, Leonie (10 February 2012). "Dexys Midnight Runners to release first new album in 27 years". NME.com. Archived from the original on 29 January 2020 . Retrieved 30 January 2020.

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After more treatment, Rowland returned once more as a solo performer and signed to Creation Records, although, in his words, "every other record label advised [Creation] against it because I was trouble." [8] In 1997, he released his first project on Creation: a remastered and reprocessed version of Don't Stand Me Down with extensive liner notes, revised credits and titles, and two extra songs, which helped contribute to a significant reversal of opinion with regard to the album, which was now increasingly being re-evaluated and recognized as an unfairly overlooked masterwork. [29] [23] Following this, in 1999 Rowland released a new solo album of interpretations of "classic" songs called My Beauty, which received virtually no publicity or radio airplay and sold poorly but attracted attention for Rowland's cross-dressing cover attire. [8] [29] Rowland limited his pre-release publicity for the album to one interview, and he "auditioned" potential interviewers before selecting Jon Wilde. [8] However, the negative reaction to My Beauty and the demise of Creation Records shortly after its release meant that Rowland's planned follow-up album, which would have featured Dexys performing new material, was never made. The failure caused Rowland more problems; in his own words from 2003, "Four years ago, I was nuts." [29] Later, in March 2010, Rowland said that signing to Creation was "definitely a mistake". [31] Dexys Mark IV: 2003–present [ edit ] Dexys reformed [ edit ] Rowland at first refused to issue any singles from the album, comparing Dexys to bands like Led Zeppelin that never released singles. [8] By the time a 3-minute edit of the 12-minute " This Is What She's Like" was released, it was too late to save the album from commercial failure, and the "Coming to Town" tour that followed the album was played before "half-empty theaters". [8] Rowland said, "I felt that we couldn't do anything better than [ Don't Stand Me Down]. It took so much out of me, but the record company threw the towel in. I think they wanted to teach me a lesson." [6] In the aftermath, Rowland started to have issues with drug abuse. [8] However, Dexys returned to the U.K. charts in late 1986 with the single "Because Of You", again written by and featuring the nucleus of Rowland, O'Hara and Adams (and which was used as the theme tune to a British sitcom, Brush Strokes). [7] Dexys disbanded in early 1987. [7] Rowland solo and failed Dexys reunions: 1987–2002 [ edit ] Michaels, Sean (13 February 2012). "Dexys Midnight Runners to release first new album in 27 years". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 23 April 2019 . Retrieved 17 April 2014. Things You Didn't Know: "Come On Eileen" By Dexys Midnight Runners". WCBS-FM. 29 March 2013. Archived from the original on 4 February 2016 . Retrieved 12 February 2016.

Dexys News. "New Dexys Album out in June". dexys.org. Archived from the original on 6 May 2016 . Retrieved 9 April 2016. In September 1985, Dexys released their first new album in three years, Don't Stand Me Down. [7] Production was originally credited to Alan Winstanley and Rowland, although reissues also credit Adams and O'Hara. [21] The four remaining members were pictured on the album cover in the band's fourth look, an Ivy League, Brooks Brothers look, [7] wearing ties and pin-striped suits (except for O'Hara, who wore a grey women's business suit), and with neatly combed hair. Rowland described Dexys' new look as "so clean and simple; it's a much more adult approach now". [9]On the original issue, just Alan Winstanley and Rowland were credited as producers, but Adams and O'Hara were added as co-producers in 1997, when the CD was reissued on Creation Records; at the same time, the titles to two of the songs were changed. a b c d e f g h i j Reynolds, Simon (2005) Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978–1984, Faber & Faber, ISBN 0-571-21570-X, p. 293–296 In an interview with HitQuarters, saxophonist Gatfield described the recording as a "long drawn out painful process". [1] Gatfield, who did not play on Too-Rye-Ay, felt that the new album marked a telling and troubling shift from it, as unlike that record, which he claimed was made very inexpensively and "had an energy about it", Don't Stand Me Down cost a huge amount of money and, according to Gatfield, "felt uncomfortable and unnatural". [1]