KB’s Look Back At The 80’s Music Scene: Pete Burns & Dead or Alive

By Karen Beishuizen

Picture This:

Liverpool, England, 1979

Pete Burns, Martin Healy, Mick Reid, Rob Jones and Paul Hornb form a band “Rainbows Over Nagasaki” which was renamed shortly after to “Nightmares in Wax”.

In 1980 the band was renamed again and this time to “Dead or Alive”.

In 1982 the song “The Stranger” reached the hit charts and the band was offered a record deal with Epic Records.

Their 1984 debut album “Sophisticated Boom...