Pete Burns – IMDb: Pete Burns, Soundtrack: The A-Team. Pete Burns was born on August 5, 1959 in Port Sunlight, near Liverpool, to Francis and Eva Burns. His father is British and his mother was a refugee from Germany. According to Pete, he felt a need to be different and began experimenting with his hair and looks at age 12. However, he looked so “freakish” that he was endlessly taunted by teachers …
Dead or Alive singer Pete Burns dies at 57: Pete Burns, the singer behind the dark new wave band Dead or Alive, has died of cardiac arrest, according to a statement released by his family and management. He was 57.
Pete Burns arrested after gay bar fight: Eighties singer Pete Burns was arrested over the weekend after a fight with his ex fiancé outside a gay nightclub.Burns was accused of attacking Michael Simpson and clawing his face at the Ghetto bar when he turned up with a new lover.Witnesses told the Sun, “There was fur flying everywhere. It was a really ferocious little fight.
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Pete Burns – 10 of the best: From waspish Wirral weirdo via thong-clad club bunny to cosmetically enhanced reality TV star, Burns was never, ever boring. Here are 10 of his best songs
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Pete Burns obituary: Lead singer with Dead Or Alive best known for their 1985 hit You Spin Me Round who later became a reality TV star
My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: Peter Jozzeppi Burns was an english musician, singer, songwriter, and television personality . in 1979 he founded the band Nightmares In Wax; in 1980 changes were made to the band’s line he appeared on further television reality shows, including as a presenter . he had a powerful singing voice and was known for his ever-changing appearance . had an older brother named Tony (born 1948) they got on burns’ mother, Evelina Maria Bettina Quittner von Hudec, was german and hailed from Heidelberg . as her father was Jewish, she moved to Vienna to escape the nazis . she met sally kohn: i lived a very solitary childhood . she says she had nothing to compare it with, so it seemed fine to her . a secret world she shared with her mother, she says burns spoke german until he was five, which resulted in local children shouting “Heil Hitler” Burns dropped out of school at the age of 14 after being summoned to the headmaster’s office . burns was notorious for his maltreatment of customers . he sometimes threw their purchases at them because he disapproved of their selection . burns first performed as a member of the short-lived Mystery Girls burns had a number one hit in the UK in 1985 with “You Spin Me Round” the song went on to become a hit all over the world . he refused to allow record company staff to hear his music before it police subsequently confiscated the coat and tests were performed on it . it revealed that it was not gorilla, but was made out of the fur of colobus monkeys . in the early 2000s Burns recorded the single “Jack and Jill Party” with the Pet Shop Boys . on 7 September 2010 Burns’s solo single “Never Marry an Icon” was released to the iTunes he entered a civil partnership with his boyfriend Michael Simpson shortly afterward in 2007 . Burns stated in a Howard Stern interview that his husband has a daughter . burns had extensive polyacrylamide injections into his lips, cheek implants, several rhinoplasties and many tattoos . “don’t get me wrong – I love women; I love men, too, and I’m burns spent most of his life savings on reconstructive surgery after a cosmetic procedure on his lips went wrong . in 2007 he announced he was planning to sue the cosmetic surgeon, Maurizio Viel, for £1 million hosts Claudia Winkleman and Tess Daly pay tribute to burns and send condolences to his family . Freak Unique: My Autobiography. John Blake Publishing. ISBN 978-1844-542-987 Freak Unique, My Autobiography (1 (paperback) ed.). John Blake Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84454-438-7.