Pete Burns, Dead or Alive ‘You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)’ singer, dies at 57

Pete Burns, Dead Or Alive

Pete Burns was the lead singer for ’80s synthpop band Dead Or Alive, best known for the hit “You Spin Me Round (Like a Record).”

Dead or Alive singer Pete Burns is dead, his official Twitter account announced Monday. He was 57.

According to Billboard, the “You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)” singer died suddenly on Sunday of a “massive cardiac arrest.”

“You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)” was a top 20 hit in 1985 and was revived by Adam Sandler in the 1998 movie “The Wedding Singer” and again by Flo Rida and Kesha in 2011 with the Dead Or Alive-sampling No. 1 hit “Right Round.” The English band struggled to find further success on the U.S. pop charts, but Burns stayed in the public eye with a 2006 appearance on “Celebrity Big Brother” in the U.K.

The androgynous vocalist told the Daily Mail last month that his obsession with plastic surgery caused health problems for him over the years.

“I realized [in the ’80s] I was going to be a visual entity and that I had to look good. I had a broken nose. In the punk days somebody head butted me in Liverpool and it went over to one side,” Burns said. “The number of surgeries I’ve has is probably 300. I hope when I’m 80 and I get to heaven God doesn’t recognize me.”