In those early years, I couldn't possibly have wished for a better friend. I didn't need to I had a secret world I shared with my mother. I had nothing to compare it with, so it seemed fine to me. "I lived, I know now, a very solitary childhood. Burns later wrote of his childhood in his autobiography in which he described his mother's alcoholism and suicide attempts but maintained that she was "absolutely the best mother in the world": At a tea dance in Vienna, she met an English soldier from Liverpool named Francis Burns. As her father was Jewish, she moved to Vienna to escape the Nazis. Burns' mother, Evelina von Hudec, was German-born ( Heidelberg) and, according to Burns' autobiography, her first marriage was to a German Freiherr. Pete Burns was born on 5 August 1959 in Port Sunlight, Cheshire. He was known for his ever-changing (and often androgynous) appearance, which he freely admitted was greatly modified by cosmetic surgery that eventually bankrupted him and caused health problems later in his life. He appeared on further television reality shows, including as a presenter. Burns continued to achieve further celebrity status in the British media following his appearance on Celebrity Big Brother 4, in which he finished in fifth place. In December 2016, Billboard ranked Dead or Alive as the 96th most successful "dance artist" of all time and they are estimated to have sold over 50 million records and 28 million singles worldwide. The band's third album, Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know, was released in 1986, scoring several further hit singles including " Brand New Lover", " Something in My House", "Hooked on Love" and "I'll Save You All My Kisses". The album also contained three other UK top 40 hits: " Lover Come Back to Me", " In Too Deep", and " My Heart Goes Bang (Get Me to the Doctor)". Their second album, Youthquake (1985), reached the UK top 10 and brought the band international recognition, largely due to the success of the lead single, " You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" which reached number one on the UK Singles Chart and number 11 on the U.S. Their debut album, Sophisticated Boom Boom, was released in 1984, producing a series of minor hits in the United Kingdom, most notably their version of " That's the Way (I Like It)" (originally recorded by KC and the Sunshine Band) which gave the band their first UK top 40 hit. Peter Jozzeppi Burns (5 August 1959 – 23 October 2016) was an English singer, songwriter and television personality who formed the band Dead or Alive in 1980 and acted as the band's lead vocalist and principal songwriter.
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