Artist: Dead Or Alive
Genre(s):
Dance: Pop
Pop
Discography:
Evolution: The Hits
Year: 2003
Tracks: 18
Fan The Flame (Part 1)
Year: 1990
Tracks: 8
Nude
Year: 1989
Tracks: 7
Mad, Bad, and Dangerous To Know.
Year: 1986
Tracks: 9
Youthquake
Year: 1985
Tracks: 11
Sophisticated Boom Boom
Year: 1984
Tracks: 10
A British dance-pop group which found fame thanks to the antics of androgynous frontman Pete Burns, Dead or Alive formed in Liverpool in 1980. Burns first base surfaced three eld prior in the Mystery Girls, after heading the proto-Goth bikers Nightmares in Wax; he founded Dead or Alive with keyboardist Marty Healey, guitarist Mitch, bassist Sue James and drummer Joe Musker, debuting in 1980 with the Ian Broudie-produced Doors soundalike "I'm Falling." "Number Eleven" followed, but just as the grouping was gaining impulse they were swept aside by the growth of the New Romantic trend, with Burns after charging that confrere intersex Boy George of Culture Club had but stolen his extortionate image.
Undismayed, Burns bad on with a retooled Dead or Alive roll including future Mission U.K. guitarist Wayne Hussey and bassist Mike Percy; over the trend of records including the 1982 It's Been Hours Now EP and the follow-up single "The Stranger," the group evolved into a straight dance banding, and ultimately landed with major label Epic. A series of singles appeared o'er the row of 1983, including "Brumous Circles" and "What I Want; " Hussey soon exited, and it was a line up comprising Burns, Percy, keyboardist Tim Lever and drummer Steve Coy which scored Dead or Alive's first base major hit, a 1984 cover of KC and the Sunshine Band's disco hellenic "That's the Way (I Like It)" which hide just unsure of reaching the British Top 20.
Dead or Alive's full-length debut Sophisticated Boom Boom as well fared well with audiences, only they achieved true stardom in early 1985 with the Hi-NRG smash up "You Spin Me Round (Care a Record)," the first base Number One collide with for the production team of Stock Aitken and Waterman. The next LP Youthquake was as well a smash, yielding further hits in the form of the singles "Lover Come Back to
Me," "In Too Deep" and "My Heart Goes Bang." 1986's "Brand New Lover" unbroken the mathematical group in the calcium light, simply the 1987 LP Insane, Bad and Dangerous to Know proved fateful at plate and in the U.S., although a fervent following emerged in Japan. In the wake of 1989's Nude sculpture, both Lever and Percy left the mathematical group; the nucleus of Burns and Coy remained, additionally taking o'er production and managerial duties. Subsequent Dead or Alive LPs included Fan the Flame, Part One and Nukleopatra.
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