For a few years at its peak, Dingo was one of the most popular Finnish rock bands and caused a phenomenon called "Dingomania" all over Finland.

[8] Through different phases the band reached its permanent line-up and sent a demo to a number of labels including Finnlevy, CBS, EMI[9] and Poko Rekords.

Hits on Dingo's debut album included Sinä ja minä, Levoton Tuhkimo, Lakatut varpaankynnet and Pistoolisankari.

In January 1984 Dingo's song Sinä ja minä appeared on the Levyraati game show which it also ended up winning.

In the public, Dingo became known as a band for teenage girls, who screamed and cried of happiness seeing their idols live.

By the time the album Kerjäläisten valtakunta was published, the number of pre-orders reached the amount of a Finnish gold record (over 50 000 copies).

They influenced several different Finnish bands and musicians such as Pyhät Nuket (the hit Enkelit sulkivat silmänsä), SIG and Pave Maijanen.

[15] On Midsummer in 1985 Dingo earned 130 thousand markka for one single gig, which was an unprecedented amount of money for a domestic artist in Finland at the time.

[6]: 93 [2]: 374 According to Peter von Bagh and Ilpo Hakasalo the "Dingo fever" of 1984 to 1985 was a unique phenomenon in the history of Finnish popular culture.

[6]: 26–27 "Dingo's records are being sold like Päätalo's books and girls are falling down like grandmas at Yli-Vainio's meetings."

[11]: 87 [6]: 26–27 [19] The most enthusiastic fans set up camp around the band members' apartments in hopes of getting an autograph.

[6]: 29  For example, one time when the band's drummer Quuppa was mowing his lawn, he noticed a busload of people on the street following his actions.

[2]: 374 The band started getting frustrated with the byproducts of their huge popularity,[20] and they set limits on the number of interviews.

[13]: 19  Because of safety reasons, photographers for newspapers and magazines were no longer allowed on stage or at the backstage rooms.

[6]: 137  The press took this heightened security as a sign of arrogance and started writing about Dingo in a more critical tone.

The band members were in danger of suffocating inside their boxes when the fans surrounding them were blocking their air holes.

[21][2]: 374 In 1985, the singer-songwriter Juha Vainio published a song called Mies joka tapasi Dingon (Finnish for: "The man who met Dingo").

[20] After the show was published, young girls started asking Vainio on the street if he was indeed the man who had met Dingo.

[23] Neumann's philosophical preferences, the conscious avoiding of publicity and several trips to Ireland started to alienate Dingo's younger audience.

"Pyhä klaani" also became a number 1, but the album only sold 80,000 copies, due to changes in Neumann's musical style and especially his lyrics.

When the fans gathered in Nivala, Tuiskula in the autumn of 1986, they were shocked by the news of their favourite band falling apart.

The journey of S.E.X remained rather short, releasing only a few singles: "Uuden aamun kitarat", "Canada", and arguably "Vierivä kivi" sung by Pepe.

In 1993, the band reunited to record a new song, "Perjantai", for the compilation album Sinä ja minä.

Dingo has continued to release new material in the 2000s, including the single "Musta leski" in June 2005 and a whole album in the end of 2005.