Pete Burns

Person · Open Library

Works

2

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Film & TV

Port Sunlight, Cheshire, England

Pete Burns was an English singer-songwriter and television personality. He founded the pop band Dead or Alive in 1980, in which he was vocalist and songwriter, and which rose to mainstream success with their 1985 single "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)". He later rose to further celebrity status in the British media following his appearance on Celebrity Big Brother 4, in which he finished in…

Known for

• The Hit Factory: The Stock Aitken & Waterman Story2012
• Big Brother's Bit on the Side — Self2011
• Celebrity Big Brother's Bit on the Side — Self2011
• The Noughties...Was That It? — Self2009
• The Alan Titchmarsh Show — Self2007
• Katie & Peter: Unleashed2007
• Pete's PA2007
• Pete Burns - Unspun2006
• Cosmetic Surgery Nightmares — Self- Presenter2006
• The Friday Night Project — Self2005

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Female

Origin

United States

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

2,493

Total plays

25,326

Before forming Dead or Alive, Burns was a member of the short-lived Mystery Girls, and then Nightmares in Wax, an early proto-Goth, semi-punk group that formed in Liverpool around 1980. Nightmares in Wax put out a 12" single, "Black Leather," and a 7" single, "Birth of a Nation," each containing the same three songs, but never did an album. Burns has accused fellow pop star Boy George of copying his style and mainstreaming his unique image, although the pair have since buried the hatchet with Bu

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Family name

Burns

Gender

male

Citizenship

United Kingdom

Place of birth

Port Sunlight

Place of death

London

Occupation

autobiographer

Languages spoken

English language

Genre

Hi-NRG

Instrument

voice

Record label

Cleopatra Records

Image

Pete Burns1.jpg

Voice type

baritone

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