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garryknight · Post by **garryknight** » Mon Oct 24, 2016 7:42 pm

Pete Burns of Dead or Alive has died aged 57, the BBC News reports:

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

deastman · Post by **deastman** » Mon Oct 24, 2016 7:48 pm

Very sad news.

Aloysius · Post by **Aloysius** » Mon Oct 24, 2016 7:50 pm

For some reason I thought it was Mr. Burns from The Simpsons. Then I was thinking, hang on a second, Mr. Burns is a cartoon character.

Well Pete had one great song and a lot of terrible surgery (imho).

deastman · Post by **deastman** » Mon Oct 24, 2016 8:03 pm

Aloysius wrote:For some reason I thought it was Mr. Burns from The Simpsons. Then I was thinking, hang on a second, Mr. Burns is a cartoon character.

Well Pete had one great song and a lot of terrible surgery (imho).

I can think of at least three great songs. Although it isn't entirely clear to me what role he played in their creation, vs. SAW. At any rate, this is another sad loss for a terrible year.

Aloysius · Post by **Aloysius** » Mon Oct 24, 2016 8:07 pm

Yes. 2016 has seen a lot of sadness for people already.

xoxos · Post by **xoxos** » Mon Oct 24, 2016 10:03 pm

i want to be your toy

any passionately humanist software developer could have caught those lyrics .. most people thought it was about something else eh.

ever try a silver bullet in your ear before
course, his voice could rip your head off so it'd be hangin out the side of his mouth. very handled.

xoxos · Post by **xoxos** » Mon Oct 24, 2016 10:13 pm

check it.

real subversion.

it's okay if you didn't catch it like that. most people aren't here to Florida State University

xoxos · Post by **xoxos** » Mon Oct 24, 2016 10:15 pm

oh you think i'm playing

now maybe you can understand too.

mwa! xoxos

resynthesis · Post by **resynthesis** » Mon Oct 24, 2016 10:33 pm

Sad. I still remember going into Probe Records for the first time when I was a lad and being completely overawed by him standing behind the till. Always larger than life.

Daags · Post by **Daags** » Tue Oct 25, 2016 1:30 am

thread subject gets my vote for world's shittest pun

emcee · Post by **emcee** » Tue Oct 25, 2016 2:35 am

Whilst he wasn't in the league of a Prince, Bowie etc his "peak" did have an influence on me musically and did give me flashbacks to playing Lover Come Back to me, and of course You Spin me, trying to break down what made those songs just so infectious and hooking into your brain. To go at 57 just too early, even with all the interesting choices he made, including 300+ cosmetic surgeries along the journey..

stonestreet · Post by **stonestreet** » Tue Oct 25, 2016 5:56 am

resynthesis wrote:Sad. I still remember going into Probe Records for the first time when I was a lad and being completely overawed by him standing behind the till. Always larger than life.

Yeah you could not miss him in Probe Records. Not been to Beatport...probably not the same experience to be had

2016 the year of the dead. Perhaps this year I became mortal.

garryknight · Post by **garryknight** » Tue Oct 25, 2016 4:11 pm

Daags wrote:thread subject gets my vote for world's shittest pun

Mine too!

bob bobwood · Post by **bob bobwood** » Thu Oct 27, 2016 5:29 pm

Let there be Rainbows Over Nagasaki !
Sit on it,
Sit on it,
Sit on it,
Ooooh,
Oeeerh !

News to Spin you Round: Pete Burns dies