{"name":"Dexys Midnight Runners","title":"Dexys Midnight Runners","id":5051,"slug":"dexys-midnight-runners-2","url":"https://www.guitarparty.com/api/v3/core/authors/5051/?format=json","bio_short":"Dexys Midnight Runners - the name consistently spelled without an apostrophe - were a British <a href=\"http://www.last.fm/tag/post-punk\" class=\"bbcode_tag\" rel=\"tag\">post-punk</a> and <a href=\"http://www.last.fm/tag/northern%20soul\" class=\"bbcode_tag\" rel=\"tag\">northern soul</a> band who achieved their major success in the early to mid 1980s. The word &quot;Dexys&quot; in this case, comes from a colloquialism of &quot;dextroamphetamine&quot; or &quot;purple hearts,&quot; a type of amphetamine diet pill that was a popular &quot;upper&quot; drug with England's Northern Soul scene in the 1960s.   ","artist_img":"//guitarparty.overcastcdn.com/images/DexysMidnightRun.2e16d0ba.fill-1200x675-c100.format-jpeg.jpg","songs":[]}