Pete Burns - dead!

[AmexRuislip]

I remember watching him and his band at the Milton Keynes bowl, way back, it ended up them getting pelted with fruit and other such delights
No I wasn't involved

 

[chaileyjem]

Did anyone else on here see him/Dead or Alive when they toured in 1984 at the (i think) Top Rank ?

 

[The Lemming Stomper]

Did anyone else on here see him/Dead or Alive when they toured in 1984 at the (i think) Top Rank ?

I saw Dead or Alive at the Dome in about 85/86...

Not much kop, lots of pre-recorded stuff with Burns singing over it...

Still, RIP Pete

 

[Norman Baker suck my lozenge]

He wasn't

Well according to itv player he was,suppose if he threw a seven yesterday it would explain why he never turned up.

 

[Pavilionaire]

Will he be buried or melted down?

Going by his name - cremated.

I'm gutted, I f*cking love Spitting Image

 

[rocker959]

RIP apart from the terrible cosmetic surgery he was a very quick acid tongued funny man at times . Too young.

 

[MF'84]

He promised he'd be on there, dead or alive*.



*Sorry that was a bad joke. He's probably spinning in his grave at that one.

Spinning right round? Like a Record?

 

[Durlston]

I thought it was the guy that went out with Kate Moss at first. Pete Doherty.

57 is far too young these days. What is it with this year and celebrity deaths?

 

[CliveWalkerWingWizard]

Bobby Vee has gone as well !

Not coming bouncing back from this one

 

[Ninja Elephant]

I've been listening to the extended version of You Spin Me Round for the last few days, it's been stuck in my head. Bizarre timing.

 

[ROSM]

I saw Dead or Alive at the Dome in about 85/86...

Not much kop, lots of pre-recorded stuff with Burns singing over it...

Still, RIP Pete

I was there too. He looked like a badly plucked chicken in a white stringy outfit. Singer some song like lover come back to me.

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

Bit off more than he could chew sadly
regards
DR

 

[Easy 10]

He's being described as a "true visionary" - he had one hit with You Spin Me Round in 1985, appeared on Big Brother, and, errr...

Its sad that he's passed, 57 is no age. But lets not go too OTT on the plats.

 

[the wanderbus]

I had a Scouse girlfriend back in the mid eighties and went up to Liverpool to visit her family. She took me to a record shop owned or run by Pete Burns, I'd never heard of him at the time. He was wearing a yellow rubber jump suit and make up, the first time I'd ever seen a real live " gender bender ".....very strange to a boy from the backwaters of Sussex

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

I had a Scouse girlfriend back in the mid eighties and went up to Liverpool to visit her family. She took me to a record shop owned or run by Pete Burns, I'd never heard of him at the time. He was wearing a yellow rubber jump suit and make up, the first time I'd ever seen a real live " gender bender ".....very strange to a boy from the backwaters of Sussex

I was dragged along to see Dead or Alive at The Dominium in London by a friend. As I worked in London I went in my suit but the audience was full of weirdos I felt totally out of place and the time went so slowly, this was 1980 something, support act was The Flowerpot Men or something like that, totally not my scene but to be fair Pete had a very good and powerful voice and You Spin Me Round was a very good pop song written by Stock, Aitkin and Waterman I think.

 

[dangull]

I cant understand people who butcher their face with cosmetic surgery. Do they really think it looks better ( Michael Jackson)

Sean Connery was a sex symbol a few years ago

 

[NooBHA]

I had a Scouse girlfriend back in the mid eighties and went up to Liverpool to visit her family. She took me to a record shop owned or run by Pete Burns, I'd never heard of him at the time. He was wearing a yellow rubber jump suit and make up, the first time I'd ever seen a real live " gender bender ".....very strange to a boy from the backwaters of Sussex

I loved that era for music and clothes. I was very conservative clothes wise up until about 18 then that music scene came along. It was brilliant. Where I came from, you had bands like Aztec Camera, Orange Juice, Deacon Blue, Texas, Hipsway, Wet Wet Wet, The Jesus & Mary Chain, Lloyd Cole & the Commotions, The Bluebells etc all doing the local bars and clubs near me so people from that era it is always sad when we lose anyone from around then

 

[Perfidious Albion]

I didn't know who he was until yesterday . Now I do.....if I wrote what I think - I'd get modded.

 

[Trufflehound]

Pete had a very good and powerful voice

Very much this. He may have been a prima donna in real life, but boy could he sing. Some of the early Dead or Alive singles like Number Eleven or It's Been hours Now were spine-tingling. They were goth not disco back then, and Wayne Hussey played with them for a couple of years before joining Sisters of Mercy.

Sadly ironic oft-overlooked fact: Before they changed their name in 1980, Dead or Alive were called Nightmares in Wax. Seems Pete Burns' professional life went in a full (Misty) Circle(s).

RIP

 

[cheshunt seagull]

Hardly a rock legend but maybe as a human being deserving off a little bit more respect.