Dust off your dungarees - Dexy's Midnight Runners are back. The stomping Eighties band is returning to Top Of The Pops for the first time in 17 years.

Led by Brighton frontman Kevin Rowland, the former chart-toppers will take to the stage this week to perform their new single Manhood.

A greatest hits album and 17-date UK tour are also on the cards as part of the comeback.

The most memorable hit from Dexy's was Come On Eileen in which Kevin created his own look, which incorporated denim dungarees, stubble and a neckerchief.

It became a national pop anthem for the Eighties, with its foot-pounding craze continuing in student union bars around Britain well into the next decade.

Since then the 50-year-old frontman has become known for his clothing experiments, including forays into female fashion.

Not every style has been successful with fans. When Kevin appeared at the Reading Festival in a mini-dress he was pelted with bottles.

For his album My Beauty, offensive graffiti was daubed on posters showing him in a blue velvet dress hitched up to reveal black suspenders and underwear.

Dexy's Midnight Runners last appeared on Top Of The Pops in 1986 when the pop legends performed Because Of You, the theme tune from sitcom Brush Strokes.

The comeback will see original members Pete Williams and Lucy Morgan teaming up with Kevin for their first tour since 1985.

It includes a show at London's Royal Albert Hall on November 10.

In an interview in the October issue of Mojo magazine, Kevin said: "This is the first proper tour since 1985 but it's not going to be a greatest hits show.

"We'll do Geno and Come On Eileen but other songs will be reinterpreted to be relevant to us now."

The Top Of The Pops recording will be shown on October 1 in an edition of TOTP2 on BBC2.

The greatest hits collection, titled Let's Make This Precious, will be released on Monday, which will also include new tracks Manhood and Life In England.