Pete Burns
Sign in to saveAlso known as Peter Jozzepi Burns, Peter Jozzeppi Burns
English singer (1959–2016)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 2
Top works
- Essential Guide to the Art of Dog Training
- Freak Unique
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- Listeners
- 2,493
- Total plays
- 25,326
Tags
popballadsdancevisual keiglam
Before forming Dead or Alive, Burns was a member of the short-lived Mystery Girls, and then Nightmares in Wax, an early proto-Goth, semi-punk group that formed in Liverpool around 1980. Nightmares in Wax put out a 12" single, "Black Leather," and a 7" single, "Birth of a Nation," each containing the same three songs, but never did an album. Burns has accused fellow pop star Boy George of copying his style and mainstreaming his unique image, although the pair have since buried the hatchet with Bu
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Burns
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Port Sunlight
- Place of death
- London
- Occupation
- autobiographer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- Hi-NRG
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Cleopatra Records
- Image
- Pete Burns1.jpg
- Voice type
- baritone
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- start of work period
- 1979-00-00
- cause of death
- cardiac arrest
- date of birth
- 1959-08-05
- Commons category
- Pete Burns
- birth name
- Peter Jozzeppi Burns
- date of death
- 2016-10-23
- manner of death
- natural causes
- name in native language
- Pete Burns
- place of burial
- Kensal Green Cemetery
- member of
- Dead or Alive
- pseudonym
- Pete
- copyright representative
- PRS for Music
- sexual orientation
- bisexuality
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