Peter Jozzepi Burns, a.k.a. Pete Burns, born in 1959 near Wirral, England, to an English father and a German mother, who escaped the Jewish progroms of the Nazi 1930s, is probably the - shall we say - most flamboyant of UK's celebrities since Adam Ant. Most famous to the oldskool people amongst us as the lead singer of Dead or Alive in the 1980s, the younger generation may still recognise him for Dead or Alive's track 'You Spin Me Round' or, rather more unglamorous, for his 2006 appearance in the UK Version of Celebrity Big Brother on Channel 4 or a the £1 million payout over a blotched facelift job. Originally labelled as gay, perhaps owed due to his gender atypical appearance and sexual relations with men, Pete is actually bisexual and was married to Lynne Corlett. Thanks to my friend Franck, I did dig out this treasure from 2004, one of two of his solo career tracks, produced by the very majesties of synth pop: the Pet Shop Boys.
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