Pete Burns: The Story of a Soloist Dead or Alive

Pete Burns is a singer and songwriter from the UK who became famous for his participation in the Dead or Alive musical group. In this collective he was a soloist, and the performance of the hit called You Spin Me Round opened the way for the boys to glory in 1985.

Biography of a musician

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.

First, Pete Burns attracted public attention only in his shocking way, but the output of the single You Spin Me Round changed everything. It was this composition of the band Dead or Alive that got the status of gold, more than 500 thousand copies were purchased in the world. The single was in many charts for a long time in the lead.

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

Creative career

Pete Burns took the first step toward music, settling in as a seller in Liverpool at the Probe Records store. In this place it was very often possible to meet young musicians, who are striving for development and glory.

Before the formation of the Dead or Alive team, Burns was a member of the bands Nightmares in Wax and Mystery Girls, who played in the style of goth punk, 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.

Transformation of appearance

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

Pete Burns for his life suffered a very large number of operations. This process simply became uncontrollable and turned a guy with subtle facial features into something outrageous and indescribable.

And one of the plastic surgery not only worsened the appearance of Burns, but also tied him to the house. Surgical intervention in 2006 went wrong, and for 8 months because of this musician did not go out into the street, and then another year and a half transferred the restoration. Sometimes Burns wanted to commit suicide. He even filed a lawsuit against the surgeon of the London clinic, who operated it. The judge took the side of the soloist Dead or Alive, and the doctors ordered him to pay 500 thousand pounds sterling.

The correction of the consequences of the unsuccessful surgery wasted a lot of time and a lot of money, but this did not affect Pete at all, and he 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 the restoration, the musician demonstrated to everyone his new image at the nearest Fashion Week in London. By this time he managed to get a new hobby - a piercing. At the fashion show, Burns came along with his boyfriend Michael Simpson, with whom he was in official relations. Literally a year later the couple quarreled, but their love reunited the hearts again.