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Kevin Rowland is a British singer and musician best known as the frontman for the pop band Dexys Midnight Runners . The band had several hits in the early 1980s, the most notable being "Geno" and "Come On Eileen", both of which reached number one on the UK Singles Chart. Wikipedia  

✵ 17. August 1953
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Famous Kevin Rowland Quotes

“The only way to change things is to shoot men who arrange things.”

Kevin Rowland

lyric to "There There My Dear" (1980)

“Old clothes do not make a tortured artist.”

Kevin Rowland

liner notes to Searching For the Young Soul Rebels (1980)

“I never did feel like a star. I was always uptight about something and uncomfortable and not very good. I felt weighed down by it, the pressure. It's terrible I should have enjoyed it but I didn't; I was thinking about what we should do all the time, I wasn't able to run with it.”

Kevin Rowland

Interview - March 2010

“I did loads of stupid things, like the way I used to argue with EMI Records. I just look back to the time now and wonder how I would have reacted to some prick coming into my office shouting and kicking things.”

Kevin Rowland

NME - July 1982

“I went to an art exhibition recently, and the guy had a quote of mine from that song there — "The only way to change things is to shoot men who arrange things." I wouldn't agree with shooting people at all. I was just anti-love. I feel differently now. But, you know. It's OK. That's how it was then, and it's good.”

Kevin Rowland

Tangents 2001 interview

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