Pete Burns

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Peter Jozzeppi "Pete" Burns (born August 5, 1959 in Bebington , Cheshire , † October 23, 2016 in London ) was a British pop singer, songwriter and television personality. In the 1980s he became known as the singer of the new wave band Dead or Alive .

Life

Pete Burns, who was discharged from school early, made his first musical contacts by working in an alternative record store, which at the time was a meeting place for young musicians. The extravagant and androgynous dressed Burns briefly became the singer of the music group Mystery Girls . He later founded the dark wave formation Nightmares in Wax , which would later be renamed Dead or Alive . With a changing image and a new sound, away from Gothic and post-punk to pop music suitable for disco clubs, the band made their breakthrough in the international charts in the mid-1980s.

After the short-term commercial success of Dead or Alive had waned, Burns devoted himself to his solo career in the early 1990s, which, however, hardly produced any noteworthy recordings. Under the pseudonym International Chrysis , he published the David Bowie cover Rebel Rebel in 1994 , which reached number 76 on the British pop charts . The song was later re-released on the Dead-or-Alive album Nukleopatra (1995). Ten years later he managed to return to the top 100 of the British charts with the song Jack and Jill Party produced by the Pet Shop Boys .

In the 1990s, Burns had a few cosmetic operations that changed his appearance significantly. This earned him media coverage, as well as ridicule and malice. He dressed and acted feminine too. Burns later described his operations as unsuccessful, but successfully marketed himself as a freak or trash star.

Burns' participation in the British version of the reality show Celebrity Big Brother brought him a comeback in 2006, as a result of which he appeared in numerous television shows and celebrity specials in various TV formats in the UK. In the same year his autobiography Freak Unique and the television documentary Pete Burns Unspun appeared . In October 2007 Burns got his own reality TV show on Sky Living under the title Pete's PA (English: Pete's Personal Assistant ) . The ten episodes of the show ran until December 2007.

In 2009 he sued his cosmetic surgeon for a failed lip augmentation. Burns had to undergo multiple operations to correct the procedure. He was awarded £ 450,000 in compensation for pain and suffering. Burns declared himself bankrupt in 2015 after unable to pay the rent on his apartment.

Pete Burns died on October 23, 2016 at the age of 57 from complications from a heart attack .

Discography

Chart positions
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Singles
Jack and Jill Party
  UK 75 06/19/2004 (2 weeks)

album

  • 1992: Love, Pete ( MC with acoustic piano ballads; no label)

Singles

  • 1994: Sex Drive (with Glam )
  • 2004: Jack and Jill Party
  • 2010: Never Marry an Icon

Filmography (selection)

Television appearances

  • 1985: Top of the Pops
  • 1987: Razzamatazz
  • 2000: VH-1 Where Are They Now?
  • 2003: V Graham Norton
  • 2006: Pete Burns Unspun
  • 2006: Celebrity Big Brother
  • 2006: Cosmetic Surgery Nightmares
  • 2007: Wife Swap
  • 2007: Pete's PA
  • 2007: The Podge and Rodge Show
  • 2009: The Alan Titchmarsh Show
  • 2009: The Noughties… Was That It?
  • 2010: VH1 News Presents: Plastic Surgery Obsession
  • 2011: Come Dine with Me
  • 2011–2016: Big Brother's Bit on the Side
  • 2013: Celebrity Wedding Planner
  • 2013: The Body Shocking Show
  • 2015: The Nation's Favorite 80s Number One
  • 2016: Trailblazers Of Pop
  • 2016: Celebrity Botched Up Bodies
  • 2016: Pete Burns the last interview

Documentation / video

  • 1988: Dead or Alive: Rip It Up Live

Publications

  • With Ian Cranna: Pete Burns - Freak Unique: My Autobiography . John Blake, London, 2006, ISBN 978-1-84454-298-7 .

Web links

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  1. ↑ Andrew Griffin: Pete Burns dead: Singer and Celebrity Big Brother star dies at 57 . In: The Independent , October 24, 2016, accessed October 24, 2016.
  2. ↑ Pete Burns: Deterrent example of OP mania PromiFlash , September 23, 2010, accessed October 24, 2016.
    Ouch, what happened to Pete Burns? vip.de, February 21, 2011, accessed October 24, 2016.
  3. ↑ Jody Thompson: Pete Burns: 'My face might fall off but I'll keep having plastic surgery' . Daily Mail , February 4, 2011, accessed October 24, 2016.
    Sylvia Patterson: 'I don't really do reality' . The Guardian , April 19, 2003, accessed October 24, 2016.
    The King Of Queer Pop - Pete Burns . poptrashaddicts.blogspot.de, April 7, 2007, accessed on October 24, 2016 (English).
    Fay Strang: Pete Burns' appearance shocks viewers as he makes rare TV appearance . Mirror Online , February 6, 2016, accessed October 24, 2016.
  4. ^ Fay Strang: Pete Burns declared bankrupt after spending hundreds of thousands on surgery . ( Memento of the original from July 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Mirror Online , April 21, 2015, accessed October 24, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mirror.co.uk
  5. ↑ Cathrine Schermann: Pete Burns († 57) is dead! Bunte , October 24, 2016, accessed October 25, 2016.
  6. ↑ Chart data UK
personal data
SURNAME Burns, Pete
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Burns, Peter Jozzeppi (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British pop singer, songwriter and a television personality
DATE OF BIRTH 5th August 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Bebington , Cheshire
DATE OF DEATH October 23, 2016
Place of death London