Let’s Make This Precious

Too-Rye-Ay As It Should Have Sounded? Dexys go back to go forward.

Ian Harrison

THE HOT NEWS AND BIZARRE STORIES FROM PLANET MOJO WHEN MOJO calls Kevin Rowland in late September he’s quarantining in a hotel in Thailand, listening to new mixes of 1982’s Number 1 album Too-Rye-Ay. He’s conferring with mixing engineer Pete Schwier and returned violinist/bandleader Helen O’Hara: the current song they’re working on? The transcendence-chasing Let’s Make This Precious. Is the new version, as the lyric demands, crying pure and true? “A lot more than it was,” says Rowland. The journey to Too-Rye-Ay As It Could Have Sounded, as with most things in Rowland’s mercurial career, has not been simple. While the original LP and its classic single Come On Eileen both topped the UK charts in summer 1982, he says he was prevented by his label from mixing it to his satisfaction.…

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