barneyg42 Posted October 24, 2016 Share Posted October 24, 2016 Cardiac arrest on Sunday I'm reading!! :-( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stingrayPete1977 Posted October 24, 2016 Share Posted October 24, 2016 Wow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bassman Sam Posted October 24, 2016 Share Posted October 24, 2016 Just saw this on Facebook. I watched a documentary a couple of weeks ago about him. It was tough to see how ill he's been due to bodged surgery. RIP Pete. You deserved better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy Apple Posted October 24, 2016 Share Posted October 24, 2016 Just heard.. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-37755445 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bassman Sam Posted October 24, 2016 Share Posted October 24, 2016 Merge the threads Sean. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ezbass Posted October 24, 2016 Share Posted October 24, 2016 2016 continues to suck the life out of the arts - literally Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HowieBass Posted October 24, 2016 Share Posted October 24, 2016 I know he was more known these days for his plastic surgery than his earlier music but I'm still sad to hear of his passing. A friend of mine once paid for a taxi ride home with Pete and Margox (Margi Clarke) from Manchester - they didn't have any cash. The next day Pete turned up at my mates house and paid him back for the taxi. A couple of weeks later my mate's mother calls him over to the TV when Dead or Alive were performing 'You Spin Me Round' on TOTP, saying something like 'Isn't that the guy who came round the house the other day?'. My mate had no idea who Pete Burns was or that he was about to become famous. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ezbass Posted October 24, 2016 Share Posted October 24, 2016 And now Bobby Vee too! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-37756170 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LayDownThaFunk Posted October 24, 2016 Share Posted October 24, 2016 [quote name='FinnDave' timestamp='1477337442' post='3161579'] Sorry, but even after googling the name, I have no idea who he was. Sorry to hear of his passing, but not a clue. [/quote] Why comment on this thread then? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FinnDave Posted October 24, 2016 Share Posted October 24, 2016 [quote name='LayDownThaFunk' timestamp='1477342880' post='3161643'] Why comment on this thread then? [/quote] Fair enough, I'll delete it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raymondo Posted October 24, 2016 Share Posted October 24, 2016 [quote name='LayDownThaFunk' timestamp='1477342880' post='3161643'] Why comment on this thread then? [/quote] Because he might be interested in finding out who he is? Why be so antagonistic? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimR Posted October 24, 2016 Share Posted October 24, 2016 [quote name='FinnDave' timestamp='1477343446' post='3161652'] Fair enough, I'll delete it. [/quote] No. I agree. Dead or Alive had a few hits in the mid 80s but he wasn't exactly a household name and not one of the big 60s/70s artists now in their 70s who will now be regularly appearing in the obits. Even as a teenager in the 80s I only know his name because he was on Never Mind the Buzzcocks a couple of times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fleabag Posted October 24, 2016 Share Posted October 24, 2016 [quote name='LayDownThaFunk' timestamp='1477342880' post='3161643'] Why comment on this thread then? [/quote] Because he had something to say on the subject. Unlike your post Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo Posted October 25, 2016 Share Posted October 25, 2016 I always thought of him as a 'celebrity' rather than a musician. He was a friend of Boy George IIRC and found his way into the limelight by association. I know only of that one song. Nevertheless, I thought he was a strong personality and challenging in a positive way. Definitely too young to pass in that way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebigyin Posted October 25, 2016 Share Posted October 25, 2016 (edited) [quote name='Raymondo' timestamp='1477343971' post='3161657'] Because he might be interested in finding out who he is? Why be so antagonistic? [/quote] Well said Edited October 25, 2016 by thebigyin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Sausage Posted October 25, 2016 Share Posted October 25, 2016 [quote name='TimR' timestamp='1477346060' post='3161674'] No. I agree. Dead or Alive had a few hits in the mid 80s but he wasn't exactly a household name and not one of the big 60s/70s artists now in their 70s who will now be regularly appearing in the obits. Even as a teenager in the 80s I only know his name because he was on Never Mind the Buzzcocks a couple of times. [/quote] They must have been strong drugs you were on it the 80s. Buzzcocks only started in 96 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonard Smalls Posted October 25, 2016 Share Posted October 25, 2016 I remember seeing him in about 1980 in his earlier band, Nightmares on Wax, and later when Wayne Hussey was Dead or Alive's guitar man... He also used to come to a niteclub we frequented around 1981ish - Oliver's in Chester. He got quite a kicking off a local hardman! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisterT Posted October 25, 2016 Share Posted October 25, 2016 You got me searching there cos I was a fan of Nightmares on Wax (Warp records, all that) - just found it was Nightmares [u]in[/u] Wax. I had no idea Pete had done this, you learn something new everyday. RIP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimR Posted October 25, 2016 Share Posted October 25, 2016 [quote name='Lord Sausage' timestamp='1477392855' post='3161880'] ... Buzzcocks only started in 96 [/quote] Quite. As Bilbo says, more famous for being famous than being a singer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wateroftyne Posted October 25, 2016 Share Posted October 25, 2016 [quote name='Lord Sausage' timestamp='1477392855' post='3161880'] They must have been strong drugs you were on it the 80s. Buzzcocks only started in 96 [/quote] I think he's saying that PB didn't make any impression on him in the 80s, and that he only knows him from being on the telly a couple of times since. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimR Posted October 25, 2016 Share Posted October 25, 2016 [quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1477395377' post='3161915'] I think he's saying that PB didn't make any impression on him in the 80s, and that he only knows him from being on the telly a couple of times since. [/quote] I think Lord Sausage was attempting to be funny. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonard Smalls Posted October 25, 2016 Share Posted October 25, 2016 [quote name='MisterT' timestamp='1477395287' post='3161911'] You got me searching there cos I was a fan of Nightmares on Wax (Warp records, all that) - just found it was Nightmares [u]in[/u] Wax. I had no idea Pete had done this, you learn something new everyday. RIP. [/quote] Oops! When you get to my age your memory isn't quite... Now what did I come in here for? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisterT Posted October 25, 2016 Share Posted October 25, 2016 [quote name='Leonard Smalls' timestamp='1477400235' post='3161973']Now what did I come in here for?[/quote] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skidder652003 Posted October 25, 2016 Share Posted October 25, 2016 I remember him when he worked at Probe Records in Liverpool in the late 70s/early 80s, first time i had seen weird contact lenses, he terrified me at 15! Very sad news. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SICbass Posted October 26, 2016 Share Posted October 26, 2016 Probe records, god I haven't thought about that place in years. Pete Burns was a well exotic figure back then. A sad loss, RIP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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