
Transbeauty Pete Burns has put down his fags (THAT MEANS CIGARETTES) long enough to make a long-awaited return to the recording studio. The former frontman of Dead or Alive has released the cover art for his first solo single, Never Marry An Icon, where he’s seen posing in a wedding gown-like thing (or he got tangled in some really beautiful curtains) whilst holding a bouquet of flowers that has snakes crawling inside (a gift from the Tim Burton prop closet, I assume).
A message on his Web site reveals:
“Pete’s first solo single, ‘Never Marry An Icon”, will be released in the coming weeks and available for download via iTunes and other digital music sites. The track is the first release in Pete and Steve’s own fledgling digital label, BRISTAR Records.
A promotional video is also being made for the single; it will also be made available as a download.”
And in other Pete Burns news, it’s recently come out that our favorite Cher doppelganger used to be a total bitch *(BIG SURPRISE)* back when he used to man the counter at Probe Records in Liverpool, England before hitting it big with You Spin Me Round (Like A Record) in 1984. He had a notorious reputation for refusing to sell people records he didn’t like.
Contact Music reports:
Music agent Mitch Poole, who shopped in the store as a youngster, tells the Liverpool Echo, “I used to hate getting served by Pete Burns, who terrified the life out of me in those black contact lenses. He would ask ‘What do you want to buy that for? It’s c**p’! I once remember him refusing to sell to my mate How Soon Is Now? by The Smiths, because he hated it so much.”
Ungrateful, much? Just yesterday I stopped someone from seeing Jennifer Aniston’s The Switch, and now I’m the godfather to a child who I’ve never met.
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