Editing Dexys Midnight Runners (section)

===Rowland solo and failed Dexys reunions: 1987–2002===
Rowland became a solo singer with the release of 1988's poorly received album, ''[[The Wanderer (Kevin Rowland album)|The Wanderer]]''.<ref name="bio" /> Rowland suffered from financial problems, drug addiction and depression.<ref name="2003int">{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2003/sep/19/2 |title='I was nuts' |first=Dave |last=Simpson |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |date=18 September 2003 |access-date=31 January 2016 |archive-date=28 January 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160128104759/http://www.theguardian.com/music/2003/sep/19/2 |url-status=live }}</ref> Rowland said: "I'd been too confident, too arrogant. I thought everyone would hear our new music and go: 'Wow.'"<ref name=":0" /> When he went to sign on for a [[Jobseeker's Allowance|jobseeker's allowance]], another unemployed person recognised him and sang "Come On Eileen".<ref name=":0" />

Dexys returned to the charts that year with the greatest-hits TV compilation ''[[The Very Best of Dexys Midnight Runners]]'', which featured a number of songs that had never been released on CD, reached #12 on the charts, and was certified "Gold". Consequently, Rowland "spent most of my time in rehab" in 1993 and 1994.<ref name="Wilde" />  As part of that, Rowland made plans to reform Dexys together with Big Jim Paterson and Billy Adams, although these plans resulted in little more than a solitary TV performance in 1993.<ref name="bio" /><ref>The band performed two new songs, "Manhood" and "If I Ever", on the UK [[Channel 4]] TV show ''Saturday Zoo''</ref>  Rowland then went on the dole; as he put it in 1999, "Insanity is no fun, mate. People try to romanticize the idea of the suffering artist. At my lowest ebbs there was no romance to it at all."<ref name="Wilde" />

After more treatment, Rowland returned once more as a solo performer and signed to [[Creation Records]], although, in his words, "every other record label advised [Creation] against it because I was trouble."<ref name="Wilde" />  In 1997, he released his first project on Creation: a remastered and reprocessed version of ''Don't Stand Me Down'' with extensive liner notes, revised credits and titles, and two extra songs, which helped contribute to a significant reversal of opinion with regard to the album, which was now increasingly being re-evaluated and recognized as an unfairly overlooked masterwork.<ref name="2003int" /><ref name="Holland" />  Following this, in 1999 Rowland released a new solo album of interpretations of "classic" songs called ''[[My Beauty]]'', which received virtually no publicity or radio airplay and sold poorly but attracted attention for Rowland's [[cross-dressing]] cover attire.<ref name="Wilde" /><ref name="2003int" />  Rowland limited his pre-release publicity for the album to one interview, and he "auditioned" potential interviewers before selecting Jon Wilde.<ref name="Wilde" />  However, the negative reaction to ''My Beauty'' and the demise of Creation Records shortly after its release meant that Rowland's planned follow-up album, which would have featured Dexys performing new material, was never made. The failure caused Rowland more problems; in his own words from 2003, "Four years ago, I was nuts."<ref name="2003int" />  Later, in March 2010, Rowland said that signing to Creation was "definitely a mistake".<ref>[http://www.davehaslam.com/control.php?_command=/DISPLAY/170/42//6000/30003 Dave Haslam, Author and DJ – Official Site]. Davehaslam.com. Retrieved on 25 August 2011. {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120304091320/http://www.davehaslam.com/control.php?_command=%2FDISPLAY%2F170%2F42%2F%2F6000%2F30003 |date=4 March 2012 }}</ref>