Apollo Road, Oldbury

‘What’s so landmark and historic about a small, anonymous residential road on the edge of Oldbury?’ I hear you ask. Well in the case Apollo Road, what’s so special about it is that it’s where Kevin Rowland lived in the late 1970s, around the time he formed Dexys Midnight Runners.
When I moved to this part of the world, I knew that he had once lived round here and was chuffed to find that the leader of one of my favourite bands had lived just a few minutes stroll from own doorstep. However, anyone expecting blue plaques, guided tours or people dancing round in dungarees will be sorely disappointed. Despite it’s significance in local music history, Apollo Road does still remain a small, anonymous residential road on the edge of Oldbury. Only really worth a look if you’re a big Dexys fan and want to walk down the road trying to work out which house he lived in, whilst humming ‘Geno’. That’s what I did anyway, and it made me feel good.