Pete Burns (Dead or Alive singer and part-time Boy George lookalike) has died at 57

[sir whoopsalot]

[quote]Dead or Alive singer Pete Burns has died aged 57 after suffering a cardiac arrest, his management has said.
A statement on Twitter said it was with "greatest sadness" that it had to break the "tragic news" that Burns died suddenly on Sunday.[/quote]

[url=http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-37755445]Source[/url]

Shame he died so young.

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGNiXGX2nLU[/media]

[meanwhile]

[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llHhiiNnIjY[/media]

Didn't Dead or Alive stay quite popular in Japan?

[Papa Gator]

jeez looking at him nowadays, his appearance was... different from these videos.

still, rest in peace.

[Christof P]

There's a "spinning in his grave" joke somewhere here, but I'm not gonna be the guy.

RIP, but not surprising seeing what he was like in the more recent years.

[Darth-Veger]

First [URL="https://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1539033"]Jack Chick[/URL] and now Pete Burns? This year sure takes a toll

[PyrO_o]

Although Pete and Dead or Alive had only one smash hit about "spinning right round like a record", they also at same time did [I]a lot[/I] for 1980s music. Why? Because Stock-Aitken-Waterman - it was first their [I]giant[/I] success (#1 in UK and in shitload of countries) and you maybe know how succesful this producing trio was in the last half of 80s.
[video=youtube;0ZKNzs35GP8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZKNzs35GP8[/video]
Rest in peace.

[Michael haxz]

Was listening to DoA on the way to college this morning, shame he went the way he did

[27X]

I'm surprised he lasted as long as he did, honestly.

Literal walking train wreck of self-excess.

[peterson]

Remember meatspin?

Yeah...

[EoB]

Holy fuck, he took that whole Michael Jackson route and fucking blasted it out of the water. RIP but damn, man why do that shit to your face?

[GayIlluminati]

[QUOTE=27X;51256317]I'm surprised he lasted as long as he did, honestly.

Literal walking train wreck of self-excess.[/QUOTE]

When I saw the headline, I was honestly expecting him to have gone out like David Carradine. He managed to retain at least a sliver of dignity, I guess.