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Music's Lost History Artist Edition Only One Egg From A Cracked Band · Arroe Collins Music's Lost History

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  Speaker 1: Music's Lost History Name the song before we do Back, back,
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  Speaker 1: back Music's Lost History.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to Music's Lost History, the Artist's Edition.
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  Speaker 2: One of the most unusual, fascinating British bands hailing from
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  Speaker 2: the music generation's second British invasion. Oh yeah, the 1980s.
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  Speaker 2: Now most people think that they know this band. They're
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  Speaker 2: known globally for one song, but there's more to this
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  Speaker 2: story as we get deeper into the complication. They joined
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  Speaker 2: forces in Birmingham, England. It was two Kevins, both on guitar.
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  Speaker 2: Kevin No. 1 comes from the British punk rock scene,
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  Speaker 2: but here's the thing. He wasn't interested in playing punk
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  Speaker 2: music in this brand new collaboration with the other Kevin.
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  Speaker 2: Their biggest inspiration was Northern and American soul music with
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  Speaker 2: a touch of Irish heritage. The band's very first name
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  Speaker 2: was Dexedrine. Yeah, I'm talking about the amphetamine, which was
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  Speaker 2: associated with the Northern Soul scene. Ironically, the band had
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  Speaker 2: one big rule. No drugs, no alcohol, no excuses. Kevin,
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  Speaker 2: as in Roland, was a hardcore man about rehearsals, stretching
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  Speaker 2: late into the night. I mean, the music and the clothes,
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  Speaker 2: the entire image had to be 100% distinctive. Coming up next,
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  Speaker 2: this band finally releases their debut album, but it comes
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  Speaker 2: with a lot of problems. And there's a horn section
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  Speaker 2: in punk music? What?
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  Speaker 1: Name the artist before we tell you. Music's lost history.
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  Speaker 1: Arrow Collins is back.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, thanks for coming back to Music's Lost History, the
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  Speaker 2: Artist Edition, the year 1980. The band finally releases their
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  Speaker 2: debut album, but it's got a lot of inner battles,
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  Speaker 2: complete with a horn section connected to soul music and
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  Speaker 2: punk music? Yeah, the band was on their way, right?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no.
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  Speaker 2: No, they weren't. They broke up already. In fact, any
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  Speaker 2: and every shape of this band has always broken up.
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  Speaker 2: But it's not Fleetwood Mac. Two years later, album number
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  Speaker 2: two hit the charts. Gone was the urban soul look.
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  Speaker 2: In were fiddles, accordions, and denim scarves and plenty of
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  Speaker 2: rural clothing. Oh my God, where are we going with this?
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  Speaker 2: From that album came the band's very first No. 1
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  Speaker 2: song in Britain as well as America. Although Kevin No. 1, Roland,
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  Speaker 2: gets credit for writing the song, uh-uh. It was the
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  Speaker 2: ousted Kevin's real work, and oh, it did not sit
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  Speaker 2: well with Kevin No. 2. Oh, he was deeply hurt
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  Speaker 2: with the song's success. But they couldn't come up with
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  Speaker 2: a great follow-up to Come On Eileen. Kevin Rowland was
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  Speaker 2: always trying things with new ideas. Well, that's what kind
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  Speaker 2: of led Dexy's Midnight Runners into the point of being remembered,
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  Speaker 2: but only as a one-hit wonder. The band we're talking about,
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  Speaker 2: Dexy's Midnight Runners. I'm Arrow, and that's Music's Lost History.