BLESS ME FATHER

A searingly honest memoir from Dexys iconic frontman one of the great mavericks and creative geniuses of British music At home the prayerful eight year old altar boy was planning to attend college to train to be a priest Elsewhere he was thieving lying swearing fighting and rarely out of trouble In this astonishing memoir Kevin takes us from the juvenile courts of his troubled teenage years to the early days of the New Romantic scene in the late 70s An unwavering passion for music and highly tuned sense of fashion and style ignited an unstoppable drive within him compelling him down a path that led to his huge chart successes with Dexys Midnight Runners in the early 1980s However despite being celebrated as a creative genius inner turmoil was never far away and a terrifying series of self sabotaging events were to follow including a serious cocaine addiction leaving him in the wilderness in the 1990s bankrupt living in a bedsit on the dole Always resilient in the face of adversity after a massive upheaval Kevin found his way back He charts his return journey from shocking audiences with his pioneering embrace of gender fluidity with My Beauty right through to Dexys triumphant appearance at Glastonbury in 2024 Vividly detailed and with a