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Pete Burns

1959 - 2016

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Peter Jozzeppi Burns (5 August 1959 – 23 October 2016) was an English singer, songwriter and television personality who formed the band Dead or Alive in 1980 during the new wave era and acted as the band's lead vocalist and principal songwriter. He sold over 17 million albums and 36 million singles worldwide and also gave successful English songwriting and record production trio Stock Aitken Waterman (SAW) their first UK No. 1 hit single. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pete Burns has received more than 6,531,207 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia. Pete Burns is the 898th most popular musician (up from 911th in 2019), the 2,496th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,535th in 2019) and the 152nd most popular British Musician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 6.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.53

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.82

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.22

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Pete Burns ranks 898 out of 2,662. Before him are Paul Chambers, Todd Rundgren, Neil Peart, Svend Asmussen, Corey Taylor, and Tommy Aldridge. After him are Paul Butterfield, Vitas, Abdullah Ibrahim, Benny Benassi, Nikolai Noskov, and Jack DeJohnette.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, Pete Burns ranks 142. Before him are Majid Majidi, Majed Abdullah, Erhard Loretan, David Koresh, Tobias Moretti, and Éric Serra. After him are Nick Cassavetes, Mauricio Funes, Michel Onfray, Christian Thielemann, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Guy Laliberté. Among people deceased in 2016, Pete Burns ranks 217. Before him are Sixto Durán Ballén, Raoul Coutard, Leon Russell, Susannah Mushatt Jones, Akhtar Mansour, and Jon Polito. After him are Nina Ponomaryova, Laura Mancinelli, Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern, Jan Němec, Billy Paul, and Vladimir Zeldin.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Pete Burns ranks 2,496 out of 7,765. Before him are Shirley Eaton (1937), Donald Watson (1910), Alexander Gordon Laing (1794), Francis Buchanan-Hamilton (1762), Steve Bruce (1960), and David Burke (1934). After him are Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton (1735), Terry-Thomas (1911), Henry Pottinger (1789), George Rooke (1650), Ioan Gruffudd (1973), and James H. Wilkinson (1919).

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Among MUSICIANS In United Kingdom

Among musicians born in United Kingdom, Pete Burns ranks 152. Before him are Brian Connolly (1945), George Shearing (1919), Philip Catherine (1942), James Galway (1939), Simon Phillips (1957), and Fatboy Slim (1963). After him are Mel Collins (1947), Dick Parry (1942), Mick Ronson (1946), Mick Fleetwood (1947), Trevor Pinnock (1946), and John Illsley (1949).

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