Coming up, the unbelievable story of the quintessential 80s classic that made it into the Guinness Book of World Records for the longest hike to #1... from the strange and entraining band Dead or Alive, led by larger than life frontman Pete Burns, whose botched plastic surgery became his downfall. He started out as a militant record store clerk berating customers whose musical tastes didn’t align with his! He even got nasty, throwing their purchases back in their face. But then, later, he threw down a record of his very own… a song that would flood any dance floor or club anywhere: You Spin Me Round (Like a Record). Later, it would become the most rehashed karaoke song of the time… The band would have 7 top 10 hits over just a couple of years, even though to this day, people all think of them as a one-hit wonder. The problem is that, the moment the 80s ended, the band vanished. But 21 years after the song hit #1 in 1985, it hit #1 again! The story is next on Professor of Rock.
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So it’s time for another edition of our series Bottled Lightning, where we celebrate a song or album that was king for a day or many days. Here we honor artists and bands and that rocketed up the charts… but for reasons unknown, they weren’t able to sustain that success. Called by some ‘one hit wonders’, we celebrate them instead as lightning in a bottle. On previous episodes, we have covered I Melt With You by Modern English, Too Shy by Kajagoogoo, and What’s On Your Mind (Pure Energy) by Information Society.
But today we're diving into the story of Dead or Alive and their breakthrough, smash hit You Spin Me Round (Like a Record).
You know, Championship Vinyl, that record shop in the John Cusack film High Fidelity… as cool as it was, it had nothing on Liverpool’s Probe Records. The small, independent English record store was mostly staffed by eccentrics and misfits… including one Pete Burns, frontman of Dead or Alive. Pete would work there for a while as he was chasing his dream of cutting a hit record.
So think back to Jack Black’s character Barry Judd in High Fidelity… musical snob with a sharp wit. Judd was in the habit of insulting customers if he didn’t like their taste in music…
Okay, now turn Barry Judd up to 11. This was Pete Burns. He turned customer mockery into an art form. Burns went beyond your typical, run-of-the-mill musical snobbery, acquiring a reputation for full-on terrifying customers… routinely throwing their purchases at them if he disapproved of their selection… The Clash, Elvis Costello, OMD, Kiss, Rush… forget about it… You could expect at least a verbal whipping if you brought those to the counter. Let’s just say from the start, Pete Burns had some very strong opinions about music.
Speaking of the start, Pete formed Dead or Alive in 1980 after stints in various local Liverpool bands, including Mystery Girls and Nightmares in Wax… Dead or Alive's early music was heavily influenced by punk and