Pete Burns: the story of the lead singer of Dead or Alive

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Pete Burns is a British singer/songwriter who rose to prominence through his participation in the band Dead or Alive. In this team, he was a soloist, and the performance of a hit called You Spin Me Round opened the way for the guys to fame in 1985.

Musician biography

Pete Burns, whose photo you can see below, was born in August 1959 in Port Sunlight. His father was a native Englishman, and his mother was Jewish, born in the German city of Heidelberg.

At first, Pete Burns attracted public attention only with his outrageous image, but the release of the single You Spin Me Round changed everything. It was this composition by the Dead or Alive group that received gold status, more than 500 thousand copies were purchased in the world. The single has been at the top of many charts for a long time.

Pete Burns was initially mistaken for a homosexual due to his androgynous appearance. In fact, the musician is bisexual. At one time he was even married to a girl whom he met at the hairdresser, a colleague of Lynn Corlett.

Creative career

Pete Burns took his first step into music by taking a job as a salesman in Liverpool at Probe Records. In this place, it used to be very often possiblemeet young musicians striving for development and fame.

Before the formation of Dead or Alive, Burns was a member of the Nightmares in Wax and Mystery Girls bands, who played in the goth-punk style that was so popular at the time. And even the release of the compositions Birth of a Nation and Black Leather did not lead to the creation of at least one album.

Appearance transformation

Pete Burns, whose before and after photos you can see below, has repeatedly tried to change his appearance. The musician made his lips more voluminous with polyacrylamide injections, and implants were inserted into his cheeks. The shape of his nose also changed and became new each time.

Pete Burns has undergone a very large number of operations in his life. This process just became uncontrollable and turned the guy with thin features into something outrageous and indescribable.

And one of the plastic surgeries not only worsened Burns' appearance, but also tied him to the house. Surgical intervention in 2006 went wrong, and for 8 months because of this, the musician did not go out, after which he endured recovery for another year and a half. At times, Burns wanted to commit suicide. He even filed a lawsuit against the London clinic surgeon who operated on him. The judge sided with the lead singer of Dead or Alive, and the doctor was ordered to pay him 500 thousand pounds.

A lot of time and a lot of money was spent on correcting the consequences of an unsuccessful surgical intervention, but this did not affect Pete at all, andhe purposefully continued to change his appearance further. And the story of 18 months of life after the tragedy was used to make a documentary film.

After recovering, the musician showed everyone his new look at the upcoming London Fashion Week. By this time, he managed to acquire a new hobby - piercing. Burns came to the fashion show with his boyfriend Michael Simpson, with whom he was in an official relationship. Literally a year later, the couple had a fight, but their love reunited hearts again.