The staff list reads like a who’s who of the Liverpool music scene. As well as Geoff and Annie, there was DJ Norman "The Cat" Killon, Pete Wylie, Paul Rutherford and, famously, Pete Burns.
“I used to hate getting served by Pete Burns, who terrified the life out of me in those black contact lenses,” says former customer now turned music PR Mitch Poole. “He would ask ‘What do you want to buy that for? It’s c**p’! I once remember him refusing to sell to my mate How Soon is Now, by The Smiths, because he hated it so much.
Re:Pete Burns
by Anonymous
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Tuesday August 24 2010, @05:09AM
That means....
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he likely sold a few of his own records at the shop; Sophisticated Boom Boom (1984) and Youthquake (1985) by Dead or Alive. Those albums truly are crap.
I am sure that Pete Burns did that just to be the cantankerous queen bitch that he is - probably didn't like the buyer's shoes or something. Pete Burns and Morrissey were famously acquaintances for a while and even did a very camp interview in Smash Hits together. I kid you not.
Anonymous
-- Tuesday August 24 2010, @06:21AM
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Most likely this is not true. At the time HSIN came out Pete Burns/Dead or Alive were already very popular in England. Their first album had come out and they were getting ready to release Youthquake. I can't imagine Pete working in a record shop while being a pop star.
Anonymous
-- Tuesday August 24 2010, @07:24AM
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