Born in Port Sunlight near Liverpool as Peter Jozzeppi Burns. "Dead or Alive" was created in 1980.

In August 1980 he married his long time friend Lynne. The two pictures: Pete Burns in the eighties... and nowadays

Hits:

• You Spin Me 'round (Like a Record)(1985)
• Lover Come Back to Me (1985)

CDs:

• Sophisticated Boom-boom (1983)
• Youthquake (1985)
• Mad, Bad and Dangereous to Know (1986)
• Rip It Up (1987)
• Nude (1989)
• Fan the Flame Part One (1990)
• Nukleopatra (1998)
• Fragile (2000)