In his big year, the year 1985, Pete Burns made it two Times on the cover of “Smash Hits”, the British teenager Bible of the eighties. Once alone, in semi-profile, with an open view on his with dark Makeup painted eyes. More spectacular was the other Cover: As Burns and his singer Mr Morrissey each other huddled, the title line of all: “The very odd couple”.
Because of this “strange Couple” is embodied, at least at first glance, the greatest contrasts of the British Pop of that era. As the lead singer of the Smiths, the guitar sounds, the flowers in the jeans pocket and texts about bullying and moor the antithesis of murders gave to the prevailing artificiality. was And on the other hand, Pete Burns, the engine of this artifice on the top.
in 1985, was managed Pete Burns and his Band Dead Or Alive the big hit, a big hit single, which was to Evergreen, for a certain, quite hysterical mood, when the party night is far advanced: “You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)”. A number one in England, Canada and Switzerland. In Germany, the Single went to number two in the Charts.
“You Spin Me Round” was the first Top Hit for the production team Stock-Aitken-Waterman, the surrogate of the charts the second half of the Eighties certain: with a signal-coloured plastic-sounding Soul, the radiant young people like Kylie Minogue or Rick Astley Hits on a conveyor band. However, in Dead Or Alive are some interesting spots on the dirt-repellent Stock-Aitken-Waterman were still surface.
This was, of course, of Pete Burns, a extremely flamboyanten character that purred on the Cover of the first Dead-Or-Alive-album in a leopard suit crawling on all fours in the camera. In the Video to “You Spin Me Round”, presented Burns with a black eye-patch of the wild high backcombed hair when he is not in the purple Kimono under a disco ball, the hips to the Hi-NRG Beat waving.
But Flamboyanz was Yes – it should change soon – in those years, almost a prerequisite to find the way into the teenage heart. Just think of Culture Club-singer Boy George, who describes in his autobiography “Take It Like A Man”, that Burns already at the end of the Seventies in the club scene of Liverpool with such a legendary reputation that echoed up to him in the distant city of London.
The Rock singer Julian Cope, who had also his socialization of Liverpool’s Eric’s Club, describes his first impression: “An overweight girl who was poured into her black dress, stood there with the swishy guy I had ever seen. Both had black make-up, dyed hair, white Theatre, and paint-and-leather-clothes. The girl was really sexy and was called Lynne. The type was beautiful and it was Peter Burns.” They were then, in 1976, a Pair, both 17. Soon after, she and sold punk clothes were married, with Pete Burns mocked the young Punks, his customers, happy times. Burns’ sharp tongue got Boy George to feel When the two of them in 1982 came to know that accused Burns Boy George, his androgynous Look stolen.
“A seal of approval of British music”
Musically, lagged behind because of Burns’ Band the soulful Pop of Culture Club, but still a whole piece: Dead Or Alive debuted in 1980 with a New Wave-Single (“I’m Falling”), and the Gothic feeling scene, and the temporary band member Wayne Hussey with Sisters of Mercy and The Mission was later to be a hero. However, a cover version of a seventies disco hits “That’s The Way (I Like It)” made in 1984 on the way to the Band with “You Spin Me Round” is danced to the chart.
Morrissey and Pete Burns, the so-opposing Stars of the year in 1985, they came in the “Smash Hits”-double-interview, of course, magnificent. Yes, they even said to each other, they were friends. “He sent me 26 roses to my birthday,” said Morrissey about the Burns, “and I gave him 48 naked Sailors.” Then Morrissey “You Spin Me Round called” “a seal of approval of the British music that will never be old.” – “You provocative little minx!”, Burns’ answer was.
But Morrissey has been right, somehow. The German DJ Westbam told in his memoirs how he dazwischenmixte the bass line of the song, from its beginnings in the Berlin Metropolitan up to the Mayday. And in 2009, the US Rapper Flo Rida took the chorus to land his biggest Hit, “Right Round”,.
For Pete Burns, it went no further, however, so radiant. While Dead Or Alive in the mid-Eighties, there are still some minor succession of hits; “Brand New Lover”, for example, had it made in 1986 to the number one on the U.S. dance charts, and also in Japan, there were still successes. However, in the nineties, Burns made less with the new Hits than with botched plastic surgery. So it is almost logical that he moved in 2006 to the British “celebrity Big Brother”house. Result: “You Spin Me Round” returned to the Charts. Commented on Burns with the words: “It is, as one would wear with 46 years of his school uniform again.”
About his sexual orientation, wrote Burns in his autobiography “Freak Unique”: “If I’m gay, bi or trans? Forget everything. You would need a completely different terminology, and I don’t know if the has already been invented. I’m just Pete.” On Monday evening, his Ex-wife Lynne, to be temporarily registered life partner, Michael Simpson and his Manager Steve Coy know via Twitter that Pete Burns died on Sunday of cardiac arrest. He was 57 years old.
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