Remembering Pete Burns

Forever bold, forever beautiful

Inner sleeve of the Nightmares in Wax EP Shangri-La.

When Dead or Alive frontman Pete Burns died in October 2016, he was a tabloid celebrity. That wasn’t how I wanted to remember him. I wrote this appreciation for the website Liverpool Confidential.

Forever bold, forever beautiful

Liverpool Confidential, 25 October 2016

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