posted by davidt on Tuesday August 24 2010, @03:00AM
Kewpie sends the link (via Morrissey reddit), originally posted by DAVIE in the forums (original post):

Quite possibly the best record shop in the world: Memories of Probe Records - Liverpool Echo

Excerpt:

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.
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  • Pete Burns is a twat. Fact.
    Anonymous -- Tuesday August 24 2010, @03:37AM (#355350)
    • Re:Pete Burns by Anonymous (Score:0) Tuesday August 24 2010, @05:09AM
  • 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.
    Sidney Wicks -- Tuesday August 24 2010, @05:43AM (#355358)
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  • 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 (#355360)
  • Probably not true (Score:1, Interesting)

    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 (#355363)
  • 'there's a man going mad with a mullet in millets'
    Anonymous -- Tuesday August 24 2010, @12:49PM (#355380)
  • What about the duet on Barbarism? Did I miss something?
    Anonymous -- Wednesday August 25 2010, @07:40AM (#355408)


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