Dead or Alive (band)

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Dead or Alive were an English pop band formed in 1979 in Liverpool by Pete Burns (vocals). After several unsuccessful indie singles, they signed to Epic Records in 1983, achieving their first chart placement with "Misty Circles" from their first album Sophisticated Boom Boom (1984). At that time, the band consisted of Burns, Steve Coy (drums), Tim Lever (keyboards), Mike Percy (bass), and Wayne Hussey (guitar). Burns and Coy remained the core of the band for the rest of its history, with Hussey leaving in 1984 (going onto Sisters of Mercy and later the Mission), while Lever and Percy both left in 1988. The band achieved seven UK and two US Top 40 singles, their biggest hit being "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" from their second album Youthquake (1985), which reached No. 1 on the UK singles chart and No. 11 on the US Billboard Hot 100, while also topping the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart in the US. Their other UK or US Top 40 hits were "That's the Way (I Like It)" from Sophisticated...

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