Pete Burns – Dead or Alive
Pete Burns was a British singer and songwriter, best known as the lead singer of Dead or Alive. He became popular in 1985 with the release of the single You Spin Me Round (Like a Record). He also was a television personality. He appeared on further television reality shows including Celebrity Big Brother 4, in which he finished in fifth place.
Peter Burns was born in August 5, 1959 in Port-Sanlayte (English county of Merseyside). His father was an Englishman, and his mother was a Jew from German Heidelberg.
His biography is more like a tangled series – his personal life combined with the singer’s career, plastic surgery and scandals.
At first Pete attracted the attention of the public only thanks to his outrageous appearance, but then he released the single You Spin Me Round (Like a Record), which received the status of gold, being sold in an amount of more than 500 000 copies and took the top places in the charts worldwide (# 1 UK Singles Chart).
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