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Rod Liddle

How Pete Burns helped to create our fatuous modern world

27 October 2016

2:00 PM

27 October 2016

2:00 PM

So RIP Pete Burns, transgendered Scouse popstar. His indescribably awful song ‘You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)’ — clever allusion, no? — reached number one in 1985 and, as part of the band Dead Or Alive, he had a couple of minor follow-up hits.

When David Bowie died in January of this year, a lot was made of his supposed pioneering androgyny.

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