Well, there was no bigger drag queen on the scene in the 80s than Pete Burns, lead singer for Dead or Alive. At that time, the music industry called it gender-bending, but we all knew what they meant.
Anyway, Dead or Alive had a couple of hits, with this song and Lover Come Back To Me and Sex Drive. I remember hearing them in the clubs and dancing up a storm! Controversy seem to surround the band, and their time in the spotlight was brief, although Pete continues to try to extend it, going so far as to appear in the British version of the TV show Big Brother.
To find out more about the band and Pete Burns, click here for Wikipedia.
Oh man, if you can't dance to "You Spin Me Round," you're DEAD! A classic!
ReplyDeleteYes this song demanded you move your body, and drank more. I swear it did
ReplyDeleteI heart Pete Burns
ReplyDeleteI don't understand why Pete Burns still alive in a condition "nobody's land" about his/her gender identity, I'm a transexual woman, but I feel me a woman in all senses, and the word "transexual" made me a suffering sense. I'm waiting for the day of my freedom by my horrible penis actually on my complete natural woman body. then I, woman, will be married whit my man in a normal wedding between woman and man. I'm not consider gay marriage like a real marriage, naturally this is simply my idea. a sincere embrace to Pete.
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