Poxy bloody 2016!!!! Pete Burns now!!!!

[barneyg42]

Cardiac arrest on Sunday I'm reading!!

:-(

[stingrayPete1977]

Wow

[Bassman Sam]

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.

[Billy Apple]

Just heard..

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-37755445

[Bassman Sam]

Merge the threads Sean.

[ezbass]

2016 continues to suck the life out of the arts - literally

[HowieBass]

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.

[ezbass]

And now Bobby Vee too! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-37756170

[LayDownThaFunk]

[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?

[FinnDave]

[quote name='LayDownThaFunk' timestamp='1477342880' post='3161643']
Why comment on this thread then?
[/quote]

Fair enough, I'll delete it.

[Raymondo]

[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?

[TimR]

[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.

[fleabag]

[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

[Bilbo]

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.

[thebigyin]

[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

[Lord Sausage]

[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

[Leonard Smalls]

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!

[MisterT]

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.

[TimR]

[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.

[wateroftyne]

[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.

[TimR]

[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.

[Leonard Smalls]

[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?

[MisterT]

[quote name='Leonard Smalls' timestamp='1477400235' post='3161973']Now what did I come in here for?[/quote]

[skidder652003]

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.

[SICbass]

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.