Pete Burns on stage
Pete Burns the Dead or Alive singer has died at the age of 57 after suffering from cardiac arrest "yesterday".The management on Twitter, announced the shocking death as saying: "It is with the greatest sadness that we have to break the tragic news that out beloved Pete Burns of (Dead or Alive), died suddenly yesterday of a massive cardiac arrest.
Pete Burns before
"All of his family and friends are devastated by the loss of our special star. He was a true visionary, a beautiful talented soul, and he will be missed by all who loved and appreciated everything he was and all of the wonderful memories the has left is with. (SIC)" They added: "We have no more words, we will make a further statement when we have had a chance to come to terms with our devastating loss. He will live forever in our memories."
The 80s pop icon was last on our screens in September when he appeared on Celebrity Botched Up Bodies.
Pete Burns
The singer who was recognized for his love of cosmetic surgery, as well as his successful music career admitted that he had "lost count" of the amount of times he had gone under the knife.
"The number of surgeries I've had is probably 300. I hope when I'm 80 and I get to heaven God doesn't recognise me," he said on the show.
Pete's surgery obsession began over 20 years ago, following the success of his hit single You Spin Me Round (Like a Record).
"I realised I was going to be a visual entity and that I had to look good," he confessed. "I had a broken nose. In the punk days somebody head butted me in Liverpool and it went over to one side.
"When you're young, self-conscious and standing in front of a camera and the photographers are whispering, 'Can we turn his head to the left?' you think, 'I'll do something about it'."
Pete splashed £750 to have his nose altered, though the operation went horrifyingly wrong.
"I woke up covered in blood. There was so much blood it was unbelievable," the chart-topper recalled. "There were tubes up my nose. He'd removed most of my nose and there was just two nostrils and a little bit of bone in the middle. I nearly fainted."
"NOOOOOOOO NOT @PeteBurnsICON PLEASE SAY NO," she lamented.
"So desperately sad to hear about Pete Burns. A true pop icon and a really, really fun fella to work and hang out with. Sleep well buddy," wrote TV presenter Jamie East.
"Sad to hear of the demise of Pete Burns. He was a cross between Oscar Wilde and Dorothy Parker. You don't get more brilliant than that. RIP," bemoaned former politician George Galloway, who appeared alongside Pete on Celebrity Big Brother back in 2006.
Pete's love of music was ignited after he found work at a Liverpool record shop in the early seventies, which became a meeting-place for local musicians.
But it wasn't long before the group hit the big time as their track You Spin Me Round rocketed to the top of the UK chart the following year, before going on to achieve global success - even making the US Top 20.
The singer tied the knot twice in his life, first to hairdresser Lynne Corlett, with whom he remained married until 2006.
Pete went on to marry partner Michael Simpson in July of the same year, before splitting ten months later.
Despite condemning gay marriage, with Pete claiming that men are "too predatory" for it to work at the time, the pair later reconciled and were together until the musician's death.
"So desperately sad to hear about Pete Burns. A true pop icon and a really, really fun fella to work and hang out with. Sleep well buddy," wrote TV presenter Jamie East.
"Sad to hear of the demise of Pete Burns. He was a cross between Oscar Wilde and Dorothy Parker. You don't get more brilliant than that. RIP," bemoaned former politician George Galloway, who appeared alongside Pete on Celebrity Big Brother back in 2006.
Pete's love of music was ignited after he found work at a Liverpool record shop in the early seventies, which became a meeting-place for local musicians.
Pete Burns
It was there that he first met a proto-Goth group who later became Dead or Alive. The band earned their first taste of fame in 1974 when they covered KC and the Sunshine Band's That's The Way (I Like It).But it wasn't long before the group hit the big time as their track You Spin Me Round rocketed to the top of the UK chart the following year, before going on to achieve global success - even making the US Top 20.
The singer tied the knot twice in his life, first to hairdresser Lynne Corlett, with whom he remained married until 2006.
Pete went on to marry partner Michael Simpson in July of the same year, before splitting ten months later.
Despite condemning gay marriage, with Pete claiming that men are "too predatory" for it to work at the time, the pair later reconciled and were together until the musician's death.
Source: Express...................
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