'PETE BURNS THANK YOU FOR SPINNING US AROUND'...KHAARTOUM SINGS and ORCHESTRATES his own VERSION of 'YOU SPIN ME ROUND' as a TRIBUTE at the recent sudden death of ECCENTRIC BRITISH POP STAR: PETE BURNS [1959-2016] from the BAND: DEAD or ALIVE.
PETE BURNS was a CONTEMPORARY of 1980s ANDROGYNOUS [NOT CLEARLY MALE or FEMALE] MEN IN MAKE UP BRITISH POP STARS like BOY GEORGE, MARYLIN and MAKE UP 'PRETTY BOYS' like band DURAN DURAN and band leader of JAPAN, DAVID SYLVIAN [PRETTY BOY OF THE YEAR]. It may be said that these 80s MEN IN MAKE UP were a LEGACY of BRITISH GLAM ROCKERS like DAVID BOWIE, MARC BOLAN, WIZARD, THE SWEET...
PETE BURNS autobiography tells of a STRANGE INSULAR CHILDHOOD with his Jewish mother who left Germany for UK. They seemed to have known nobody and lived in a world of dreaming of being famous and dressing up. PETE said his MOTHER KNEW he WOULD BE FAMOUS and that is what LEAD him to his ECCENTRIC CLOTHES and GRAVITATION to MUSIC.
PETE BURNS is a TYPICAL LEO star sign like fellow LEOs: MADONNA, KATE BUSH, MICK JAGGER, MAE WEST, OLIVER REED and his dear LEO friend, outspoken UK activist and politician GEORGE GALLOWAY...PETER the LEO was LIVING for ART and GLAMOUR and BEAUTIFUL CLOTHES and ROMANCE and ENJOYING PEOPLE and PARTIES and THE LIMELIGHT...Where would be be without LEO EXHIBITIONISTS! What a DULL WORLD! So PETE LOVED GLAMOUR and BEING AS OUTRAGEOUS in DRESS and SHARP TONGUE.
However, behind the SHARP TONGUE and KEEN FISTS [BURNS was a ROUGH LIVERPUDLIAN and could handle FIGHTS in LIVERPOOL STREETS!]...PETE BURNS was, as he said, "I am a totally different person inside myself compared to this external appearance". I assume that he was quite a COMPLEX, SHY and RETIRING PERSON who was a bit LOW in CONFIDENCE who LIKED the AMOUR and FLIRTING and GLAMOUR and 'LOOKING DIFFERENT' to COMPENSATE for a more LOW-KEY INNER SELF.
PETE BURNS eventually made it in to POP with DEAD or ALIVE in the 1980s. He was PRODUCED by 'THE HIT FACTORY' with STOCK-AITKIN and WATERMAN and produced his 'YOU SPIN ME RIGHT ROUND LIKE A RECORD' which I sing today to this dear dear inspiring human being and artisan. The album 'YOUTHQUAKE' charted well... BURNS could not stand the MAINSTREAM of S.A & W., much as he continued friendship with PRODUCER: PETE WATERMAN until his death. PETE felt STIFLED being in the 'HIT FACTORY' stable of KYLIE MINOGUE, JASON DONOVAN, RICK ASTLEY and all of that MIDDLE OF THE ROAD, but quite ICONIC PROCESSED POP that made him FAMOUS.
DEAD or ALIVE became a DUO and went INDEPENDENT because PETE wanted ART not COMMERCE for his MUSIC. The result was just a long DECLINING CAREER of LUKEWARM ALBUMS and then CEASING to RECORD.
BURNS went on 'CELEBRITY BIG BROTHER' in the UK in the 200s and thought of REVITALISING his CAREER. His NOTORIETY DID INCREASE, but the RECORD SALES DID NOT. His RE-LAUNCH of CAREER was a FAILURE. Also he was AGEING, he had lost a lot of his HAIR so on his return was WEARING WIGS and his FACE had AGED.
'PETE BURNS UNSPUN' DOCUMENTARY on LIVINGTV was the POST-BIG BROTHER promotion to RE-LAUNCH the STAR'S CAREER that NEVER RE-STARTED:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yftls...
COSMETIC SURGERY started from a BROKEN NOSE from FIGHTING in LIVERPOOL which went wrong...Then a long stream of BAD COSMETIC SURGERY lead to an ADDICTION to SURGERY and RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY for LIPS and JAW that nearly needed AMPUTATION. 300 SURGERIES and the BLOOD CLOTS plus his HEAVY SMOKING probably gave PETE BURNS his EARLY DEATH from HEART FAILURE.
PETE BURNS' on 'BOTCHED UP BODIES: COSMETIC SURGERY GONE WRONG' on CHANNEL 4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9S6H...
BURNS was 'ALL MAN' and although DRESSED as a WOMAN, said, "I think of myself as a man". He was married to his wife LYNNE for 26 years. PETE had a CIVIL PARTNERSHIP with his 'HUSBAND' MICHAEL SIMPSON. BURNS and SIMPSON [see 'UNSPUN'] began a TEMPESTUOUS RELATIONSHIP of INFIDELITY and BURNS' JEALOUS BEAHVIOUR SPINNING OUT OF CONTROL to a TEMPORARY COURT ORDER and COURT CASE by SIMPSON...The PAIR MADE UP, but the RELATIONSHIP was UNSTABLE and EXTREME. BURNS spoke in the press about his HETEROSEXUAL MARRIAGE being EFFECTIVE but TWO MEN in a RELATIONSHIP being 'TOO PREDATORY' [JUNG said, "There is not enough 'woman' in a relationship between two malhttp://www.towleroad.com/2008/05/dead... for it to succeed"].
By 2016, BURNS was BANKRUPT and EVICTED from his FLAT. SELLING his POSSESSIONS and CLOTHES to pay for RECONSTRUCTIVE FACIAL SURGERY. The LATER BURNS' FACE was UNATTRACTIVE, BLOATED and UNNATURAL and his TEETH were all ROTTED. His BLOATED ARTIFICIAL APPEARANCE was like a CONTEMPORARY TURKISH TRANSEXUAL POPULR SINGING STAR: BÜLENT ERSOY, pictured on TURKISH TELEVISION recently:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRrwa...
ERSOY and BURNS had both been RELATIVELY ATTRACTIVE up to the 2000s, but ADVANCING AGE and LIFE STYLE and COSMETIC SURGERY spoiled them.
