Dexys Midnight Runners: Searching For The Young Soul Rebels (Parlophone)
David Hepworth, The Face, August 1980
YOU WON'T go short of excuses for snickering at Dexys Midnight Runners from behind your hand. There's the lofty self-esteem, the leather uniforms, the missionary pronouncements, the moustaches that perch like merit badges above those carefully set lips. There's last month's announcement that nobody was going to rush them into making an album. Oh, and if rock and roll is dead, boys, why does it take so many people to hold the coffin lid down?
Total word count of piece: 469
