Pete Burns is a musician, singer, lyricist and leader of the band Dead or Alive. Popularity and fame were brought to him not only by creativity. A scandalous character, ambiguous behavior, a tendency to outrageous, a huge number of plastic surgeries - all this attracted everyone's attention to Pete Burns for many years.
In early August - on the 5th - 1959, Pete Burns (Peter Joseph Burns) was born. The boy was born in a place called Port Sunlight. This town is located in the county of Merseyside in the UK. The father of the future outrageous musician by nationality was an Englishman, his name was Francis Burns. Her mother, Evelina Maria Bettina Kuitner von Hudeck, was born in Germany, in the town of Heidelberg, and was Jewish. The parents had a significant age difference: the father was 10 years younger than his wife.
Biography of Pete Burns: childhood and adolescence
Pete was literally an adored child in the family, despite having an older brother, Tony. Evelina gave birth to her second son very late, at the age of 46. The parents raised the boy extremely gently, numerous pranks were forgiven him. Mother and father did not express anything against Pete's interests and hobbies. Perhaps such an upbringing ultimately left a certain imprint on the formation of Pete Burns' personality and led to a corresponding result.
From an early age, gravitating towards creativity and various arts, Pete Burns tried to express himself. However, he often did it in some unconventional way. So, for example, a boy by nature had a very unusual - androgynous - appearance, which he began to use while still in school. He borrowed her makeup from his mother, he could spin in front of the mirror for a long time. At school, Pete often shocked teachers and classmates with his extravagant appearance, choosing a peculiar and too flashy, outrageous style of clothing.
Perhaps it was the desire to express oneself, to always be in the center of everyone's attention, the desire to shock, surprise people around, and brought Burns into the sphere of art and creativity. He never finished school: he was expelled from an educational institution because of his appearance and inappropriate behavior. However, incomplete education did not become a hindrance to career development.
Burns career and career
Initially, Pete began to get involved in music, getting a job as a salesman in a music store in Liverpool. A distinctive feature of Probe Records - that was the name of the music store - was that not only records were sold here, but also beginning musicians gathered, communicating, getting to know each other, coming up with new projects.
Thanks to the acquaintances that Pete Burns managed to make at Probe Records, at the start of his career, he managed to collaborate with the following musical groups:
- Mystery Girls;
- Nightmares in Wax.
Both bands played punk rock style. This direction in music was gaining momentum at the time. In addition, it was the style of punk culture that allowed one to express oneself, allowed the recklessness and outrageousness to which Pete Burns gravitated so much.
Burns did not stay in the first team. Even because this group was able to perform on stage only once. After that, conflicts and problems began. Pete decided not to waste his time and separated from the team. The group finally broke up in 1979.
Burns' collaboration with Nightmares in Wax resulted in the recording of two singles, titled "Black Leather" and "Birth of a Nation". But, unfortunately, these records were not very popular, they could not withstand intense competition. This collective never recorded a full-fledged album.
Some time later, in 1980, Pete Burns, deciding not to stop there and still dreaming of becoming famous all over the world, gathered some former members of Nightmares in Wax and formed a new musical group - Dead or Alive. Having recorded the song "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)", the band released it as a single and shot a video in support of it, which immediately got into rotation on TV channels. It was a complete success. The song broke into many charts, it was actively played on radio stations. The appearance and demeanor of the band's frontman Pete Burns only added to the popularity of the group Dead or Alive. It all happened back in 1985. It is also worth saying that it was Pete who wrote the lyrics and music for this hit song.
After such a dizzying success, Dead or Alive continued their activities, however, they did not succeed in jumping over their heads and releasing something even more grossing than the aforementioned single.
Pete Burns as a shocking personality
Having achieved popularity, becoming famous, Pete Burns made his childhood dream come true. However, he was still not satisfied with life. The thing is that, despite his naturally attractive appearance, Pete always wanted to make changes to his appearance. This desire pushed him to plastic surgery. In addition, Burns believed that in this way, combining plasticity and catchy make-up, he gave his creative nature another way for self-expression.
In addition to plastic surgeries, they say that Burns had more than 300 of them, Pete became interested in piercings and tattoos. This made him even more shocking, strange compared to other stars. His constantly transforming appearance was the subject of gossip and discussion. Defiant behavior was another reason why Burns was talked about a lot and often, both in the press and on television, on the Internet. The musician and singer himself only enjoyed the developing situation.
Not all face-lifting surgeries went smoothly. In 2006, Burns underwent an unsuccessful lip augmentation and reshaping procedure. Because of this, the singer began to have serious health problems. As Pete himself said, he had to spend a lot of money to recover. In 2007, he sued his surgeon and won the trial. This process became another scandal in the biography of Pete Burns.
Over time, the musical career completely faded into the background. Pete practically gave up vocals, almost stopped writing lyrics and music. He increasingly took part in various scandalous television projects, for example, at one time he was a participant in a foreign television show, which is an analogue of the Russian "Dom-2".
Personal life of a shocking star
Pete Burns has never hidden the fact that he is bisexual.
In 1980, he officially married. Lynn Corlett became his wife. Their relationship lasted nearly 28 years. Pete filed for divorce in 2006.
In 2007, Pete Burns introduced his “common-law husband” to the public, who became Michael Simpson. However, a year later it became known that this couple broke up.
Details of the death of Pete Burns
Lately before his death, Pete lived alone in London.
Information that the musician left this world appeared in the press and on the Internet on October 23, 2016. At that time, Pete Burns was only 57 years old.
The cause of death of the shocking star was named an unexpected cardiac arrest.
