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Dexy's Midnight Runners: Too-Rye-Ay

Roy Trakin, Creem, April 1983

WHEN WE LAST left Dexy's pugnacious leader Kevin Rowland, he wore a knit stocking cap, a navy peacoat, a pencil-thin mustache and the leering mug of a swaggering stevedore, daring all comers to meet his idea of the new soul rebel.

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