Dead Or Alive frontman Pete Burns was an eighties icon, whose life was tragically cut short at just 57 years old.
The Liverpudlian had struggled with a troubled life before his untimely death from a cardiac arrest in October 2016. Pete certainly didn’t have the easiest start in life and spent his formative years watching his mum battle alcohol and drug addiction.
The telly personality, who came fifth in Celebrity Big Brother in 2006, was born in Cheshire to his German mother - a Holocaust survivor - and a Liverpudlian father.
Pete once described his upbringing as unconventional and his childhood as solitary, but said he was brought up “with an incredible amount of freedom and creativity”.
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