This meant IRA suspects could be detained without trial. Photograph: BBC. “It was August 9, 1971, just after 3 o’clock in the afternoon, and a squad of guys kicked our door in. The image is so dramatic it featured on the cover of Dexy’s Midnight Runners’ album ‘The Search For The Young Soul Rebels’. It didn’t sink in until the next morning. "Come On Eileen" is a song by English group Dexys Midnight Runners (credited to Dexys Midnight Runners and the Emerald Express), released in the United Kingdom on 25 June 1982 as a single from their album Too-Rye-Ay. But little has ever been known about the youngster whose face stares out from its cover. Read Leo in his own words below, and hear the radio version at the audio link. I thought it was a dream and in the morning everything would be okay, I don't even remember the photographer doing the picture.". Dexy’s Midnight Runners would enjoy commercial success with two other tracks from Searching for the Young Soul Rebels – Burn It Down and There There My Dear – and would claim their second No.1 hit with Come On Eileen in 1981. The Cranberries classic ‘Zombie’ closes in on one billion Youtube views! Famously, the gig at the Ulster Hall is recalled in the history of the building because fans broke the solid oak floor which had been bought by the American Embassy during World War II. Each segment focuses on a musician or band whose career in the United States is defined by a single monster hit, and explains why their catalog has much more to offer. IT’S one of the most iconic pictures from the early years of civil unrest in Northern Ireland – and it was taken almost 50 years ago hours after the British Government introduced Internment – a measure of arresting suspected terrorists without trial. Celebrating rock music – often with an Irish twist. ", Geoff Blythe, Dexys' saxophonist, 54, said: "It was wonderful to see Anthony. Firemen tried to get down the street but weren’t allowed because supposedly shots had been fired. A lot of people don't know his story or where the picture came from. 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My late mother Kathleen is in the background wearing glasses. It could have been from anywhere but I was secretly glad that it was from Ireland.”. It was a measure that literally backfired and helped organisations like the IRA recruit more members. When his picture was taken as he fled his Belfast home in the 1970s Anthony O'Shaughnessy had no idea it would become a classic album cover. Lead singer and co-founder of the band Kevin Rowland grew up in Wolverhampton with parents originally from County Mayo and has enjoyed a highly acclaimed solo career since parting ways with Dexy’s Midnight Runners. 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Halloween in Belfast will be Hotter Than Hell with KISS and AC/DC tribute show! Let’s make Christmas rock for a great cause! We were pushed into the kitchen and these guys saw the Sacred Heart of Mary picture on the wall and said to us, ‘it’s up to yourselves’. Kevin Rowland (born 17 August 1953) is a British singer-songwriter of Irish descent and frontman for the pop band Dexys Midnight Runners (currently called Dexys), which had several hits in the early 1980s, the most notable being "Geno" and "Come On Eileen", both of … Tue 27 Mar 2012 15.00 EDT. DEXYS MIDNIGHT RUNNERS: (Singing) Back in '68 in a sweaty club - oh, Geno. LEO: It was a huge hit in the U.K. and virtually unknown here. Ted Leo performs in Oct. 2010 in New York. to the four with Headless tour next year, Video: Rock legend Doug Aldrich backs Gary Moore statue campaign, Hairy Bikers will bring their food and frolics to Belfast in 2020, Man who claims to be Phil Lynott’s son has been ‘tortured’ by social media reaction. Whole communities were being intimidated out of districts as Belfast was carved up into sectarian ghettos and the scene in the photo depicts the O’Shaughnessy family shortly after they received a warning to leave Cranbrook Gardens in the north of the city. Dexys Midnight Runners appearing on Top of the Pops in 1982. When his picture was taken as he fled his Belfast home in the 1970s Anthony O'Shaughnessy had no idea it would become a classic album cover. I don’t know who took it all. In retrospect, it fits with what I now know to be Dexys' R&B roots. I had a plastic bag with two or three Subbuteo teams, clothes, a couple of toys and I had an electric heater in the suitcase under my right arm. He was one of five children who went on the run with his parents seeking refuge in a Catholic church before moving in to a house left by a fleeing Protestant family. The picture appeared in the Evening Standard in London the day afterwards and was picked up by Dexys nine years later. Originally published on February 28, 2020 10:09 am. That particular record, Too-Rye-Ay, was a bit of an apotheosis of where the band had been moving.
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