Dead Or Alive

Before there was electroclash, before there was Kylie, before there was Fischerspooner,
there was Dead or Alive, the over-the-top New Wavers whose baritone frontman Pete
Burns precisely anticipated the Lil' Kim look. Burns transformed the hi-NRG sound of
mid-Eighties gay disco into proto-Total Request Live pop by jamming it full of hooks and
making every word he intoned a vehicle for his freaky persona. This retrospecti... More >