Song Hit #1 in 1985… Band VANISHED…Hit #1 AGAIN 21 Years Later with SAME Song! | Professor of Rock
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- Today, we’re getting into the entertaining story behind an up-tempo 80s track that landed in the Guinness Book of World Records… You Spin Round (Like a Record) by 80s dance-pop group Dead or Alive Written by colorful, larger-than-life frontman Pete Burns… Before Pete got his big break, he spent his time terrorizing patrons at an independent record store. There as a sales clerk, he gained a reputation for ripping on customers if they bought music he didn’t like… Even throwing their purchases back in their face. But later on, after he finished throwing records at customers, he threw down a record of his own… DOA's signature song You Spin Me Round that launched his band to prominence, and became a go-to track on dance floors and in karaoke bars around the world in 1985 from their album YOUTHQUAKE…They ruled one chart so perfectly they had 7 top 10 hits over just a couple of years but the second the 80s ended they disappeared and their iconic singer would be the victim of a disastrous surgery…the story is coming up next.
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So It’s time for another edition of our series Bottled Lightning where we celebrate a song or album that was king for a day or many days. Here we honor artists and bands and that rocketed up the charts… but for reasons unknown weren’t able to sustain that success. Called by some ‘one-hit wonders’, we celebrate them instead as lightning in a bottle. On previous episodes we have covered I Melt With You by Modern English, Too Shy by Kajagoogoo, and What’s On Your Mind (Pure Energy) by Information Society.
But today we're diving into the story of Dead or Alive and their breakthrough, smash hit You Spin Me Round (Like a Record).
You know, Championship Vinyl, that record shop in the John Cusack film High Fidelity… as cool as it was, it had nothing on Liverpool’s Probe Records. The small, independent English record store was mostly staffed by eccentrics and misfits… including one Pete Burns, frontman of Dead or Alive. Pete would work there for a while as he was chasing his dream of cutting a hit record.
So think back to Jack Black’s character Barry Judd in High Fidelity… musical snob with a sharp wit. Judd was in the habit of insulting customers if he didn’t like their taste in music…
Okay, now turn Barry Judd up to 11. This was Pete Burns. He turned customer mockery into an art form. Burns went beyond your typical, run-of-the-mill musical snobbery, acquiring a reputation for full-on terrifying customers… routinely throwing their purchases at them if he disapproved of their selection… The Clash, Elvis Costello, OMD, Kiss, Rush… forget about it… you could expect at least a verbal whip-lashing if you brought those to the counter. Let’s just say from the start, Pete Burns had some very strong opinions about music.
Poll: What is your pick for THE SONG that DEFINES the 80s?
Metal Health - The Quiet Riot
Down Under, Men At Work
Karma Chamelian, Culture Club
Take On Me- A-Ha
Nothing But A Good Time by Poison
Man that's a tough one 🤔-- the decade was so eclectic throughout genres and changed so much from the early '80s to the late
Dweezil Zappa - Let's Talk About
Hooters - And We Danced
INXS - What You Need
Simple Minds - Don't You Forget About Me
Tears For Fears - Everybody Wants To Rule The World
U2 - With Or Without You
My dad, now 83, still talks about and loves this song. He brought the 12inch single home one day in the 80's and he'd dance to it in the living room at max volume. He bought a lot of cool music.
Your dad sounds like a cool dude 👍🏻
As a shy little girl in the 80's, Pete Burns and Boy George absolutely enchanted me. Their ability to live their lives their way unabashedly was a wonderful thing to see. This song is one of my many favorites from the era.
Adam, your channel is so fantastic. Thank you for doing what you do!
It taught you to be yourself. Embrace yourself.
They broke down so many barriers. I am convinced that the music of the eighties was one of the biggest influences on my outlook and helped form my politics too. It was a window on the world to a kid growing up in a restless and sometimes frightening world in the UK, with the ever present threat of nuclear war. That is until it receded with the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. The lyrics of many of the songs of the eighties challenged prejudice on so many levels and paved the way for greater acceptance today. There is still a long way to go, of course. I am glad you were inspired by Pete Burns and Boy George. I grew up near Liverpool. It was a tough and unforgiving city, very homophobic. No wonder Pete Burns moved to London.
Too bad they both died from addiction and s3x diseases. Or, they could have.
An absolute '80s classic. I'm so sorry you were bullied for liking this music as a kid. Nice how it turned around! You've been a positive influence about music your whole life! Have an excellent day, Adam.
Thanks Jill!
I’ve had a similar experience. Going to the school dance this past weekend I could see I was in the slim minority when it came to people’s song requests and almost every kid’s taste in music there was ABYSMAL. 😆
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980, I'm sorry to hear that. I hope you had fun anyway.
@@jillwklausen Oh yes. I did have tons of fun. Just a minor disappointment.
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 you can have tons of fun when the music's bad, haha
Rest in peace, Pete Burns. He was quite a character, and one of our true great eccentrics. He'll be forever missed. 😇
Yes indeed.
He was too young. R.I.P. 😢
Sadly, drummer Steve Coy ( guy with the long red hair) died in 2018.
@@cwilkey6498 yes, RIP Steve Coy as well...before he passed, he was able to complete the unreleased DOA album Fan The Flame Part 2...it's great...and that 19-disc box Sophisticated Boom Box 2016 is going to my grave with me when I go...it's essential to my life...
Your personal stories are great to hear man. This one in particular really hit me (no pun intended).
This song will always reminds me of my late friend Eric, we went to the beach with a boom box in 1985. Eric had long curly hair and considered himself a lady's man which he kinda was. He played this song over and over all day and strangely enough all the girls that walked by started dancing to it. Fun day, Rest in Peace Eric you were one of a kind and missed by many you wild man. Great episode professor
Great tribute to your friend!
Ha! Now I’m gonna steal this strategy to attract the quirky guys in the neighborhood.
Lovely comment.
Yes, Great comment! RIP and blessings to you Eric! 😇
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 I'd be attracted if you played it as I was walking by...huge DOA fan
Aw, my late husband loved this song! I remember we were at a restaurant that had a small band playing 70s and 80s songs. When they asked for requests, my husband told them he'd pay them $50 to play this song! lol They didn't.
Ha! Thanks for sharing !
Oh, dear! They’ve probably already got a lot of money on their sleeve.
As a keyboard player, I always found Dead or Alive was an awesome group to program and sequence their songs for play along and playback. The 80s had such an influx of groups using keyboards and electronic instruments. Started by bands like Kraftwerk, New Order, Depeche Mode, Yaz, Erasure and yes....Dead or Alive. They help create what EDM and dance music is today. I grew up in Puerto Rico. Even there, like you, I was bullied, ridiculed for liking the music or some of its fashion. I did not care. My friends did not care. We had our "click" Like you, I was also a DJ. Funny story: 25 years after graduation in 1991 we had our 25 year reunion. Guess who was the DJ? YUP! yours truly...... Guess what music I was playing? You guessed it: DOA, Depeche Mode, Erasure, Sandy Marton, New Order..etc. Those same jocks and those same idiots were all dancing and singing the songs at the reunion. I had to smile for a moment, Then I stopped the music flat out....And said over the P.A: "You Know....Funny thing how 25 years finally put some perspective into a lot of you. YOU who thought the same music that NOW you are reminiscing, dancing and having a blast listening to gave to a lot of us a hard time because we liked it. Now hopefully you can teach your kids right. Bullying had NO space in this world. Everyone smiled. Some jocks were embarrased. Some were realizing how we felt. But in the end...After 25 years...We all danced. We all had fun. Probably because we were a little bit older and maybe a tad more a wiser. But that night...I think everyone finally understood what The Pet Shop Boys said: I think its going to be allright......Cause the music played FOREVER..... J.Z.
Great story! This shows that “The Geek shall inherit the Earth” 😂 Thanks for sharing
Absolutely definitive song of the 80s. Can't quite say how many times I've heard it haha. Cheers as always for the stories and histories defining these classics.
If you were a teen then it was a million easy !
Thanks my friend!
So true.
@@ProfessorofRock Always !
@@ProfessorofRock Really Glad Dead Or Alice’s finally getting the recognition they deserve- best band ever ❤
I had their "Rip it up" greatest hits album from 1987, and wore it out. What was so great about that particular greatest hits album is that it was the first time I heard an album of songs that blend into each other....just like a real DJ would perform. So there were no pauses between tracks...just like one long song. It was great!
Brand New Lover got me hooked on DoA and Spin solidified my love & respect ❤
That closing story about the dance music loving jock was brilliant! Thanks for sharing. I wonder where that guy is today? What a decent, emotionally secure young man he was. I don’t know where you find the time and energy to output so much great content. You and your team are extraordinary. Your Dad would be so proud of you, Prof 🙌👍
Brand New Lover is a FANTASTIC song, you are correct. They were super fun, greatly talented. RIP Pete.
Fantastic is EXACTLY right!
I highly recommend people check out Brand New Lover if they haven’t. Great song.
The extended version on their album "Rip it Up" is amazing!
I love both the single version with that opening synth line in the video, but also the album version that opens with Pete singing I Want Surprises! And then that epic guitar solo which is almost hard rock...and from the same album, Something in my House, which is a Halloween classic with Halloween movie sound effects!!
I forgot this song honestly, but hearing it brought back memories right away. I loved that song!
This song takes me back to the mid 80s for more than one reason. At the peak of its popularity here in Toronto, a bunch of my buddies and I went to a local bar, which also had a dance floor, after getting off work at midnight. We were sitting there, drinking our beer when this song started playing. At this point, I felt a tap on my shoulder. I turned to look and was dumbfounded by the sight of an absolutely gorgeous woman standing over me, asking me to dance with her. Still in stunned disbelief, she took my hand and led me to the dance floor and we danced. The whole song was a blur. God, she was one of the most beautiful women, I'd seen in my life. The song ended, and we went back to our respective tables. Strangely enough, she was the only female at her table. I had just started a recent relationship, and did not follow up on the events of the night. To me, this song and that moment are forever frozen in time. Even today, when that song comes on, I'm instantly transported to that moment in time. A few minutes in my life, that I'll never forget.
I love that! It's so cool how a tune can freeze a moment in time. I have a few both pleasant and unfortunate & and can totally appreciate the long moment you shared here🧡
Great memory !!
Ahh…those were the days. Back when you would always associate a song with a girl. Have you seen her since then?
@XxLilly_playsXx Kiz no I haven't. That was the first and last time. But such a crazy memory.
This song can never be overplayed. One of my favorite songs of all time. The whole Youthquake album is amazing. I played that album quite a lot in the years after I bought it and never got tired of it.
I dig your channel!
@@ProfessorofRock That wasn't the reply I was expecting, but thank you!
It’s exactly what its namesake sounds like.
I was stationed at Camp Pendleton in 88 and my wife and I drove to West Hollywood to see DOA. Crowed was about 50% gay. To this day my wife says the greatest concert ever. I say top 3. We both loved to dance and DOA’s music was a huge part of our 80’s life. Like you said nobody sounds like them yesterday or today.
🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Ah yes, Dead or Alive. This song was everywhere in 1985! Dance clubs, new wave clubs, you name it. Sadly most people only know You Spin Me Round. Pete Burns has a great voice......... should have had more hits.
Thanks for this Professor. The dog was well behaved today. I had to listen to Saturdays episode later in the day.
But we always appreciate the knowledge you share with us.
EVERYWHERE! Thanks Roger!
I agree. Songs like "DJ Hit That Button." "Stranger In My House", those you mentioned and more. Mostly this album and the follow-up.
Even my dentist’s office, can you believe that? 🦷
This really shows how hard it is to get a big hit. I really do not think its so much the lyrics but the right synchronization, sound, and important parts of the song. Thats the hard part.
Eclectic frontman like Boy George, Richard Butler, and Pete Burns made the '80s what it was... Awesome!
So true. Very 80s!
Part of the reason I am obsessed with British icons in the 80s. Duran Duran, ABC, Human League…
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Serious Duran Duran
Heart Like A Wheel and Soundtrack To A Generation Human League
All great, underrated songs by both bands.
@@eightiesmusic1984 Great songs.
@@eightiesmusic1984 yep the album "romantic??" HAS to be the most underrated album in their catalogue!!
I interviewed Pete Burns for Alternative Press for his Nude - Remade Remodeled album release. Had the chance to meet him face to face. My ex wife and I grabbed everything we could fine on him to prepare for the interview. Got everything down to the names of his cats at that time. It was suppose to be a 30 minute interview but he liked us so much that he held up 2 tv interviews to continue talking to us. I remember he was wearing leopard print bicycle shorts when I first saw him on Melrose Ave the day before our interview. One of the two dancers he had in his recorded live Rip It Up show in Japan was from Columbus, Ohio just south of where I lived. I remembered during the interviewed he said that he had visited his dancer's family down there and the guy's dad took them out hunting. LOL..."I had a pocket", he exclaimed with a broad smile.
Who knew madonna would end up modeling her future self on Pete burns?
She lives in a material world after all.
You Spin Me Round is one of my absolute favorite songs of all time. It's just so good. Pete Burns is dearly missed.
HE was quite the frontman!
Mine too.
I was 14 in 1985, and loved this song from the jump. Overplayed? Yup, but I do think Dead Or Alive helped create modern EDM, right up there with Pet Shop Boys, New Order, MARRS and Yazoo. You Spin Me ‘Round is an important song for that reason. RIP Pete
Thanks Adam for the today's dock on you spin me right round took me right back to the 80s in my twenties at the red onions Santa Ana and Anaheim
Pete Burns...ah what a performer. Mix Adam Ant with Steve Tyler and you've got Pete Burns. I loved his music and this song was sooooo popular at the clubs when I was there every night back in my clubbing days and it was one of the best of the 80's and the video was just great. I'm no longer shocked when you tell us how a production company didn't back the talent. I also wasn't shocked at Pete's latter lifestyle change and I was so sad when he passed away...though not shocked. DOA wasn't the only band that fell off the charts as soon as the 90's started, the entire music industry did IMO. Cheers from Ottawa, Canada🍁
Adam Ant and Steven Tyler?! Weird. 😆 Cheers 🍻
They didn't just stop & fall off the planet...between 1990 & 2000, Pete & DOA released 3 albums...1990's Fan The Flame (Part 1), 1995's Nukleopatra (one of their best albums) & 2000's Fragile...and they toured the world, even the US, supporting Nukleopatra...and in 2016, right before he died, a massive 19-disc bookbox came out called "Sophisticated Boom Box 2016", and right before drummer/musical partner Steve Coy passed away too, he completed the unreleased album "Fan The Flame (Part 2)" which is great... it was released in 2020 or 2021...
Scrolled through a few hundred comments and didn’t see my favorite DoA song.
LOVER COME BACK TO ME
In a way, I think there are some similarities between Dead or Alive and The Cult. The looks of the lead singers, and the voices of the lead singer are alot alike. The difference being one was pop/dance and the other was rock. Great music on both sides.
Remember Haysi Fantayzee, who had a chart hit with Shiny Shiny in 1983? That’s who they remind me of.
One of my favorites from the 80s. What a powerhouse singer. That groove is so infectious. And the video is amazing, too. Total package.
NO QUESTION!
Shoulder shimmies and flags galore 😎
My favorite channel on TH-cam! I graduated high school in 1981 I was a six-foot-five 200 lb jock who listen to David Bowie and all the Patti Smith, Ramones and Television I could devour. I started listening to music at 8 years old on my little radio, 93 KHJ in Los Angeles then moved my way up to Led Zeppelin and Lynyrd Skynyrd then discovered Punk I love all genres of music. I was the kind of guy who would have told the redneck to shut up and let you play the music. Thanks for what you do!
One of my favorite bands on my long list growing up back in the 80's. I had the Youthquake cassette and played it over and over. So sad of the direction Pete went towards the end of his life. Another added to the gone too young list. Cool high school story, Adam!
He RUINED himself, and it’s sad to see.
My wife has told me the story when she was a missionary in Taiwan 🇹🇼 (1985-1986) while visiting a couple friends, native Taiwanese girls, when one of the girls puts a set of headphones on my future wife, and asks, do you like this song? Yep, you guessed it - You spin me right round. Everytime I hear this song I think of that experience my wife had, and years later I actually got to meet these girls in Taiwan 🇹🇼. And of course I think of The Wedding Singer! 😂
I wonder if you could have tried waving the Taiwan flag around like they did in the video.
Finally!!!! I've been wanting a Dead or Alive/You Spin Me Round episode! THANK YOU! I Loved them & had all their albums. Their music was brilliant & totally underrated. Pete was a character for sure. I was a bit enthralled with his autobiography "Freak Unique". In good & bad ways. Lol
Freak unique perfectly describes him.
I actually heard this song again a couple of weeks ago! That bass line is as infectious today as it was in the early '80s. I wasn't aware of the other songs they had unless I heard them in passing at that time. And it always brings back memories of The Wedding Singer.
One of the most frightening names to have. Peter Burns
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 bet it was funny when he went to the dr. 🤣🤣🤣
@@DC8091 Yes it did. Thank God for antibiotics!
😂😂😂
Ha ha ha
Oh boy!
When my son was young he loved this song! Murdoch sang part of it while hanging from a Huey prop in the A-Team movie. I looked it up for him and he dug it.
This song will always make me think of The Wedding Singer 😃Jenn
For so many!
Grandma Molly I'M talking to youuuuu🤣🤣
Yes!
I remember buying this on vinyl in the mid 80s and talk about bullying. Mine came from my own brother, who also used to bully me with "DISCO SUCKS" back in the 70s when I was in....get this.....3rd freaking grade! But by '85 I had graduated HS and had grown used to ignoring anyone who didn't like my tastes in music and would express that distaste verbally. I didn't care anymore - I liked what I liked so who cares what they think? Not me! As I grew older I found many more friends who liked this kind of music and by the late 80s we were all dancing in the clubs and having a blast. Good times man.
I remember when my daughter was in her high school band, and her dad and I were chaperones on trips…we would ride the tour busses with the kids and I remember hearing the song You spin me right round…..just part of my daughter’s teen life, and I loved the kid’s music too! So glad they shared their musical tastes with me! My son was so excited in the 90’s to introduce me to Insane Clown Posse….he, and his college friend took me to an ICP concert! What sweet kids at that concert! They welcomed me with open arms!
I think it’s awesome you were an open minded present parent back in the 80s and 90s that actually went with their kid to see for yourself. I was born in 82 so I remember back in the 90s when so many parents were doing all they could to blame groups like ICP, Marilyn Manson, etc for certain incidents (that had nothing do do with music period) that occurred back then which I thought was a sad attempt to deflect from being absent from their kids lives.
I was wondering if they actually did a brass version of You Spin Me Round…that would have been a lovely sight Suzanne!
@@redlady8296 How kind of you to say that! I was proud that my son wanted to have me listen to ICP! He knew I would listen and not criticize him! There were only me, and one other older person at the concert, and the kids there were so accepting of me…let me sit with them while my son was at the mosh pit! I don’t regret getting to know those kids…can you believe they called me Mama Clown!? You made me smile today!
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 It sure would! 😊
@@suzannerobbins6293 The Sinatra edition or something. 😆
Paul Rudd and Jimmy Fallon recorded the music also for their own video parody of that song.... They are both very talented musicians
I❤ THIS CHANNEL
I would never thought about the wardrobe connection between Captain Harlock and the music video
14:41 That is Paul Rudd singing. A masterclass on committing to a part!
I made the same comment too... Paul Rudd is underrated in my opinion He's so talented so is Jimmy Fallon
I used to love dancing to DOA in the clubs in San Diego in the 80s!
MORNING EVERYONE
Good afternoon from the UK- it is 16.05. But morning in America.
Morning, JC Holloway!
Morning from UK.x
Morning JC!
Amen!
I remember watching this music video on Mtv in the 80's. I danced to this song a few times at some school dances. Great memories. Thank you.
The music of Dead or Alive, Spin Round for one was never my cup of tea. However, when you heard it on the radio, it was a hypnotic and undeniably a strong and catchy tune. Sometimes I'd catch myself singing along to it !!!
Same. Like many awful songs of this genre/era, it annoys tf out of me, yet I sing to it due to its undeniable catchy-ness.🤷♀️
@@BornQueenthere was hardly any bad music during the 1980s! the 1980s is the absolute best decade of the most awesome music ever!
I really loved all of the music back in the 80's. Rock, dance, punk, metal, electronica, ect. Great music era! More metal now but still love listening to bands that mix genres today. 80's 90's and early 2000's some of the best music made.
21:12 The damage done to Pete Burns's face is heartbreaking. He was a beautiful, outrageous man.
Edit--As someone who was bullied over her musical tastes, I've totally been there. I'm glad some of Adam's classmates came around.
The UK was awful for bullying- any excuse, not just music. Bullying is about othering and policing others. I still bear the scars of it to this day. I have only ever told one person about it who was at the same schools as me when it happened but not involved. They promptly told someone else who made a joke about it a few minutes later. To me, revealing it was a big deal, only for it to be trashed in an instant. Not surprising but still out of order. I used to like artists like Nik Kershaw and Paul Young for the music but because they were aimed at a female audience telling people was risky due to the mockery. Ditto Wham! whose Make It Big album I bought at Christmas in 1984. All the enjoyment I have had from music outweighs snide comments a million times over but the tribal attitude to music and fashion aimed at controlling what others like has always been horrible. I bet a lot of commenters on this channel have been through similar. I would not want to be growing up today either- it is a lot worse with (anti) social media and the vindictiveness seems to be next level.
Yeah, I can’t understand why a guy like that would get any surgery. That’s just the sort of chiseled face that would age gracefully.
I was bullied too in school because I was different, but I proudly marched to the beat of my own drummer, so I didn't care so much, but I learned to fight back...btw, one person who bullied me but I didn't care cuz I had the hots for her (yes girls were bullies too), was um, Mariah Carey!! Yes seriously...but we made peace and became friendly 4 years later right when she got her record deal with Sony...anyhoo, I was into UK pop and new wave and punk & one band I loved (and still love) is Duran Duran & got made fun of because of their heavily female fanbase, but I didn't care, I never conformed to mainstream or jockish tastes.. Iike I can't stand Van Halen & hated so-called "classic rock" radio...some bands in the format maybe but not the style as a whole...Dead Or Alive has been one of my fave bands when I first heard them in-between my highschool & college years, the summer before my freshman year...
@@BeeWhistler as for Pete's looks and plastic surgery, he always hated the way he looked and the face he was born with, so Pete claimed that was never for vanity but his own sanity... unfortunate but it's true...I saw the band live in 1995 in NYC and Pete looked just like, um, Cher!!
@Bee Whistler he had horrible body dysmorphia 😢
Strange but true: Wayne Hussey, later famous for being a member of legendary goth bands Sisters of Mercy and The Mission (UK), was before then a member of Dead Or Alive just before they broke big time with their second album.
Never liked DOA nor any of those strange bands that pushed the agenda that we're all faced with at every turn today. I do feel bad that Pete Burns died. I also feel for his fans.
You did a classic video for him Adam. Pete Burns truly had a very hard life and you kept that hard life out in order to give him the credit he deserved. You're truly a class act Adam. Peace.. Joe
"Strange bands that pushed the agenda that we're all faced with at every turn today"
Didn't really mask your bigotry well did you?
What "agenda" exactly?
@@UrsaMajorPrime six people understood it, I guess you drink Budweiser and love to support the agenda..
@@thebluesrockers right-winger & transphobic I see...and yes I am a progressive WOKE person...Pete prided himself pi$$ing off people like you...
"Strange" is a good thing, WOKE is a good thing...I'd rather be faced with people who are different & musically different, unique, original, fun, catchy, progressive & EXCITING...blues rockers are boring...except early Fleetwood Mac with the late Peter Green as they turned blues rock psychedelic...but yes, Adam is a class act...
Why do you feel for his fans...like me??
When the Professor of Rock Rick Rolls us all, but it fits. 🤣😎🤣
Just waiting for the Furs review Psychodelic Furs that is. Hey Professor always wanted to know what the end of Utah Saints, Something Goods of Comming video is implying?
I always remember reading in the NYTimes music section about the bands to watch in 78. Dire Straits, the Police & the Furs ❤
Utah Saints! It's been a looooooong time since I"ve heard that one!
Love the Furs!
@Professor of Rock They are one of my favorites, too. Do one on Heartbreak beat.
@@ProfessorofRock Also Love Spit Love! Their cover of How Soon is Now? by The Smiths was fantastic.
80s music and the era of 8 bit computer games. Brings back a LOT of memories!
They were HUGE in Japan
BIg in Japan alright!
@@ProfessorofRock my partner is Japanese, so I hear all the time about how big they were. They even released two albums on a Japanese label. In Australia, I got into them when Pete Burns covered “Rebel, Rebel”.
They were “Big in Japan”? Alphaville reference check
@@HamishDownie yep, 3 albums actually between 1990 & 2000...Fan The Flame Part 1 (1990), Nukleopatra (1995) & Fragile (2000), plus Fan The Flame Part 2 was unreleased & completed after Pete died by Steve Coy, then he passed & got released in 2021 with the blessings of Steve's & Pete's partners...great records...got the massive 19-disc "Sophisticated Boom Box 2016" which Pete blessed before he passed...
As a 15yo, I wanted to be as beautiful as Pete Burns. I was lucky enough to see them at Hammersmith Odeon in ‘85, on a spring break trip.
Great personal story at the end. Did not expect the dead or alive t shirt ending. All credit to that guy too, at that age.
Hey ProRo,🤓👋will you ever have an interview with Leo Sayers?
Orchard Road is a classic. Produced by Alan Tarney who also produced some of Aha's biggest hits. He also worked with Cliff Richard whose My Pretty One is one of the best songs of the eighties although I don't think it was a hit in America.
Should I ?
@@ProfessorofRock He was a major star and is ultra friendly. Genuinely not just for show. He would be an interesting interview.
@@eightiesmusic1984 Alan Tarney produced the first 3 a-ha albums!!
@@lawrencedavis4406 I know.
5:30 Face it: we've been Rickrolled.
Hello Professor of Rock, I am glad you featured Dead Or Alive’s music I have quite enjoyed, and that you mentioned some of their success in Japan. I get your shirt’s stylistic similarity to the trendy Frankie Goes To Hollywood shirts.
Your intro talk and description said Dead Or Alive had "7 top 10 hits over just a couple of years." No, it took seven years for all of those hits to reach that chart you identified later as the US Dance chart. That was from early 1983's "Misty Circles" through late 1989's "Baby Don't Say Goodbye."
You said that once the 1990s began, Dead Or Alive never had another hit on any chart anywhere until their remake of “You Spin Me Round” in 2003. Yes they did; In 1990, the “Fan the Flame (Part 1)” album reached #27 on the Japanese album chart. The 1995 album “Nukleopatra” reached the Hot 100 album chart in Japan, Top 50 in Australia, and in 1997, Top 40 in Hungary. In 2000, the single “Hit And Run Lover” peaked at #2 on the Japanese Oricon chart that is like their version of Billboard. In 1996, the “1996 remix” of “You Spin Me Round” (Like a Record)” reached #28 in Australia. Then “Sex Drive” hit #52 there; not top 40, but certainly more than a “dent” you said no Dead Or Alive song made at all on any chart during that period.
The Dead or Alive single that it sounded like you called “In The Deep” was actually titled “In Too Deep.” The Dead or Alive single that it sounded like you called “My Heart Goes Bing (Get Me a Doctor)” was actually titled “My Heart Goes Bang (Get Me to the Doctor).” Your first writing of the song title left out the “Me.”
You mispronounced the last name of classical composer Richard Wagner. His last name is pronounced “vog-nur” in English, (or “vog-nair” in German), not “wag-nur.” His composition was not “Ride To The Valkyries.” It was “Ride Of The Valkyries.”
Your thumbnail says in all capitals “Hit #1 In 1985…Then Band Vanished! Hit #1 Again 21 years later with same song!” No they didn’t; 21 years after that UK #1, they reached #5 in 2006 with the same song, not #1 again. As for “Then Band Vanished!”, that reduces the next four years of hit songs to simply a “then.” You thought 1986’s “Brand New Lover” was just as good as “You Spin Me Round (Like a Record),” but it seems like for the clickbait, you wanted to act like it did not exist.
The VHS concert title you labeled “Rip It Up Live From Japan” was actually titled “Rip It Up Live In Japan.”
As I’ve written to you repeatedly before, the word “karaoke” is pronounced “kah-rah-oh-keh,” not “kair-ee-oh-kee.”
You called your channel "daily" again, but you keep not posting on Sunday. I think you deserve a day off if you want it, but that means “daily” is not “the truth.”
I’m sorry you got bullying including homophobic slurs growing up. I got similarly treated and was also a fan of The Smiths and other bands you mentioned. I am also against stereotypes. But I am glad to learn of, to admit, and to express corrections of mistakes if I make them, as I would be if I ran a channel like yours.
You wrote “Called by some ‘one-hit wonders’, we celebrate them instead as lightning in a bottle.” Also in today's post, you called the term “one hit wonder” “kind of a tired thing.“ But two days ago, you chose to state in your all capitals thumbnail “This Has To Be The Most Famous 1 Hit Wonder Ever…Right? You put the term you think is tired in red.
Please correct your errors about the seven Top Ten hits being during just a couple of years, to state seven years, and to list the hit song chart details they did have between 1990 and 2003. Please also correct the "Youthquake" album's misstated song titles, the fact that the 2006 "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" re-release peaked at #5, not #1, and to acknowledge the 1990s albums I listed above that charted outside the US and England, the details about Wagner, and the Japanese concert video title I described above, that were also not "the truth."
Please stop calling your viewers “junkies.” Have a nice day and stay safe.
Thanks you Professor Bobs for reviewings Professor Rock’s Dead or Alive’s review. Their songs “You Spins Meh Rounds” is ones of meh favorites, and nots just because it so perfectly describes Ms. So Saucy’s constants ongoings efforts to discombobulates teh definitelys “in too deep” in a “my heart goes bang” nots in a junkie ways Spaces, hehs. Keep on Bobbin’ as you knows theres will beh mores errors and record scratches to fixes tomorrows!
You sure are ripping up the Prof! Found one band you liked and criticized about everything he said. Can't expect the Prof of Rock to know classical composers names. Nit-picking about everything! Like he's going to redo the whole thing just for you!
@@toddmccreary4579 Hi Todd! I gave the Professor compliments at the start, empathy about bullying, and well wishes at the end. It would be insulting to the Professor if I were to assume he has such a fragile ego that he can’t handle knowing when he makes mistakes. I don’t know what you mean about “one band you liked”; I like most music and most artists the Professor features. I’m helping the Professor, not “ripping up.” I’m also helping respect the artists, in this case mainly a deceased one. I respect the Professor Of Rock, the artists and the music enough to take that much time and effort to promote optimal factual details, all for free. You can tell very well I did not criticize everything he said; I cited imperfections in well under half of it. I would never suggest he redo or fix something “just for” me, but also for the viewers in general who deserve optimal truth that he promises. I didn’t ask him to redo the whole thing. Descriptions are easy to edit. As for the video material that is already made and posted, he could make a new video compilation that corrects his errors from earlier ones, or make that aspect part of future videos. I was not presuming a rock specialist would automatically know pronunciation of every classical composer’s name, but he cited one in particular and assumed incorrectly that the last name was pronounced how it looked, and got a famous composition’s title slightly wrong. So I made that one of my corrections notifications as a favor to anyone interested and to help support his channel. The word "nitpicking" has no hyphen. Happy new month to you and yours, and stay safe. :-)
@@toddmccreary4579 my big issue with this vid was his omitting the music Pete & DOA released between 1990 & 2003...which included 3 albums...Fan The Flame Part 1 (1990), Nukleopatra (1995) & Fragile (2000)...saw em live in NYC on the Nukleopatra Tour...
@@bobdavis4848 your post just now reminds me of what happened when Edsel/Demon UK put out that 19-disc "Sophisticated Boom Box 2016" with tons of errors...a crap storm was started, BUT it got corrected & those of us who bought the set, we received for free 11 corrected discs (out of 19)!!
I would go for a run listening to dead or alive. I felt like I was flying without effort. That beat and exercise combination was intoxicating.
10:47 Richard Wagner: "Wagner" is pronounce "VAHG-ner." Just saying. 😉
Read a little of Martin Kemp's autobiography. Spin Me Around was a phenomenal, a juggernaut, that eclipsed EVERYTHING the year it was released. It was also, for want of a better word, the first major hit of a trio of gentlemen that was mass producing number one's. Some of these names might not be familiar to certain countries, but here we go.
Bananrama, Rick Astley, Brother Beyond, Kylie Minogue, Jason Donovan and a plethora of acts that followed in the same vein.
Their name was Stock, Aitkin and Waterman. And they were a juggernaut.
Little side fact about S,A+W is their offices was ALSO the starting point of another illustrious gentleman that goes by the name of Simon Cowell. So their influence on music is STILL being felt today. Totally phenomenal. Take a look at an old program from the late 80s and early 90s, Hitman and her. Chance to see Pete Waterman, Simon's old boss. Just for giggles.
He dressed like a Kabuki Hooker in the video!
I thought more like a new wave captain harlock.
@@ProfessorofRock I like Harlots 👍
Kabuki Hooker. Lol
I saw Kabuki Hooker open for Quiet Riot in 1984! 😂
@@5roundsrapid263 How was their performance?
I enjoyed hearing this song on the radio in the 80s, but only knew the chorus. Finally learned the words because of The Wedding Singer. I work with a guy named Pete Burns, a drummer- he told me who sang this once, so I researched a bit more. I like your new merch Professor, thanks for this episode!
Hey ProRo, 👋🤓I have a question for you. Do all the bullies from your youth sound the same. Unless it's the same bully. I don't take kindly to bullies. I remember when Jimmy Kimmel was a new student in Junior high school and some kids were trying to punk him. So I said you guys better leave my cousin alone. 😤 I didn't even know him. But he never had anymore problems with them .
THat's my typical bully from high school voice! ha ha
@@ProfessorofRock I have heard that voice from other places. I guess it is about that time. I was hoping a few others would be here by now 😕
You went to the same school? 😮
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Yes a few different people All American first team NCAA 1st round draft pick UNLV'SGreg Anthony MTV 'S on air personality Tabitha Soren
@@constipatedinsincity4424 That’s incredible.
When I was a freshman in marching band in the summer of 1985, one of the senior trumpet players would drive me and my friend to and from marching practice in his mid 70s Ford LTD. Of all the songs that were blasted over the speakers of that old car during those drives, this one stands out the most in my memory..
I totally stopped listening after I heard whom he deemed unworthy. I mean his music was not that good give me a break he put down rush?
I was thinking that if I worked at that record store I'd throw a Dead or Alive record at him.
Whom he deemed unworthy for the most part was/is!! My taste is aligned with his...and I'm sure if I shipped at that store, he would have approved...
And no, his music was among the best EVER!! Dead or Alive are in my Top 20, even Top 10, bands ever, with an amazing catalogue!!
I'm a metal head and I love you spin me round.
Probably in the minority here, but YSMR was my least-favorite song of the 80s. The sound of it just flat-out annoyed me. I still can't stand to hear it.
To each their own. Thanks Lewis!
No, you are not in the minority
@@michaelshepherd733 I guess that song is a barometer to judge someone's taste...if you love it, I will love the rest of your taste (and we'd get on as people), if you can't stand it, I'd prob hate the rest of your taste & we would not get along as people...
I remember that song was ALL OVER the radio. What kind of blew my mind was that even the heavy metal dudes liked this song.
I spent most Saturdays with my friends browsing at Probe records. At the back of the shop was a door with glass windows and they made clothes back there , Pete would sit there and I was mesmerised by the most beautiful man I’d ever seen with a tongue that was as sharp as a knife. I met Pete a couple of times in Liverpool town centre years later. Once in boots the chemist where he was buying hair dye and once in a local famous night club but that’s another story. Rest in perfection Pete 😔❤️
Danced to this a zillion times at the infamous Starck Club in Dallas in the mid to late ‘80s. Absolutely loved it and still do every time I hear it I wanna dance like I’m 22 again.
12" murder mix version of this is one of my all-time favorite songs...along with al 12" INXS "Burn for You" and 12" Hall & Oates "Out of Touch"
Love your channel as I grew up during the late 70s to early 80s. I am surprised you missed the connection to Flo Rida's #1 song from the late 2000's featuring Kesha called Right Round. If heavily samples You Spin Me Round (Like A Record). I think it was a global hit as well and this introduced a whole new audience to Dead or Alive.
I was about to say, because that’s how I discovered Dead or Alive. Sorry, Gen Z here, I was just discovering all the great music from your time in middle school 4 years ago. Now I know just about everything from the 80s. 😊
The first time I heard the song back in 1985, was when I saw the video for the song. I asked my friend, "who is this guy? Boy George 's evil twin brother ?
Boy George with balls
Mid 80s,,, so many good things, and live aid,,,,,, so much memorable music it's easy to forget half of it,,, yet a couple of notes and your singing along like a youngster
I danced to this song on my 21st birthday and 10 years later on my 31st birthday. Follow up albums Nude and Nukleopatra were pretty awesome. Pete Burns was an enigmatic personality.
As a formally bullied kid, I can say there’s no feeling quite like turning a bully into your friend. After it happens once or twice, it just seems like no one else bullies you ever again.
I absolutely LOVED this group! I wanted to play their stuff anywhere and everywhere to spread the gospel Burns. This led to a bizarre exchange at a wedding. I was the maid of honor, and asked the DJ to play some of their stuff when it was time for the dancing. Clearly, he wasn't familiar with them, as when I asked him to play "Something in My House", he seemed to think I was a drunk person asking for something I had at home. He followed up by asking who the artist was, and I said, "Dead or Alive." He said, "I don't know, you're the one asking about them." After a couple more exchanges, it was clear I wasn't going to convert anyone that day!
Wedding Singer intro was crazy awesome with this
Great episode! I love Dead or Alive. So sad about Pete. I too was bullied in high school, for the same reasons you were basically. I lived in a small town in mid Michigan. My classmates were into Country, Metal and some top 40. I had somehow discovered The Cure, Smith’s, R.E.M. etc. and I dressed the part. There were only two or three other people on that page in my school. I had friends but I was definitely picked on. A lot! Even some teachers weren’t very nice to me. I’d get slammed into lockers regularly by people who now tell me on Facebook how cool I always was 😂 I’ve gotten a few apologies even.
Throughout all of I I knew none of their opinions mattered. I still love all those bands - and I’m still a weirdo. Thank god! 😅
This song was the precursor to 90s dance. You couldn't beat the drive.
There was an episode of "Come dine with me" that had Pete on. No only an amazing distinctive voice but an incredible personality!
Hey Professor, thank you so much 😊 for mentioning the genre of Hi NRG (High Energy). As a teenager in the 80’s it was my favorite dance music genre and I still love it to this day. Unfortunately it never got much mainstream recognition but here in L.A, we could hear it and dance to it in many night clubs and house parties. Again, thanks for bringing attention to it.🙏
Another iconic song of the 80's that got overplayed for awhile was Relax by Frankie Goes to Hollywood.
My first memory of Dead or Alive was at the end of 1986, Spin me round totally passed me by, but was going through a sales bin of casettes and noticed Yothquake. LOVED the sleeve, and bought it just for that. Then I played the tape and was hooked from that moment on!! Even ran a Dutch fanclub for about 2 years and Pete Burns even called one time to say he really liked the magazine! Untill this day there isn't a week without some Dead or Alive music in my house. So sad Pete (and Steve) left us way too early.....
my friend profressor rock. 17 and bouncing around an alternative gay club in melbourne, australia. so glad that i was born in 1970 to experience the world changing gurus of sound in the mid '80s such as dead or alive to name but a few of so many. best time as it was the first time for electronica disco. people flew around the dancefloor like never before and i still cannot let those memories go. much love for the nostelgic best moments of my life.
When “You Spin Me” was limping up the charts, we’d been playing the song and music video at a mainstream dance club in Atlanta. I moved up to Pittsburgh, PA in 1985 to open a new location of the same club format. Pittsburgh’s club goers were not used to much, if any, high-energy type music. It was mired in more R&B-based dance music (and of course this was just before freestyle and house music changed dance music forever). We got some crap from customers complaining that we were playing ABC, Depeche Mode, New Order, and Dead or Alive. One night a rather upset patron came up to the DJ booth while You Spin Me was playing and said “Why are you playing this punk rock?!” We fell out laughing.
Good old Confetti. Changed the scene in Pittsburgh without really trying. A couple of years later, I’d moved again to open another club in Columbus, OH and on Thanksgiving weekend, who should walk in but Dead or Alive. Apparently one of the guys had family there and they were spending the holiday at their place. Pete was requesting a lot of music we simply didn’t have there (it was sort of a classic rock club with some mainstream dance thrown in as the “seasoning” instead of the other way around). I think he was getting a little exasperated because I didn’t have any Georgio and I said “well I do have YOUR music” and he kind of chuckled & said “that will do.” He proceeded to hit the dance floor & sing along to his own song - kinda surreal for a night in Columbus!
This video really touched me. I highly recommend everyone watch it to the end. Great work!
Dear professor I love your videos as a Gen Xer - after this video on the great New Romantic Pete Burns would love to see you do a video on the sadly forgotten Jobriath. He was such a bright spark for a few minutes in the glam era of the 70s but he died way too soon - I would love to hear your assessment!
Just got done watching this video and I really enjoyed it. Interesting story about the jock taking care of that bully. Thank you so much for sharing this and the others I had recently watched. It really means a lot to me. Much appreciated 😊
Man that track was a SMASH.!! It blew the roof off the sucker...Operatic..Reminds me of Freddie Mercury and Queen..Loved it then....Still do now....
Played it 4 nights a week in the Club here in Canada. Went from no one on the dance floor when I first played it, to it being packed! Great memories.
Adam, thanks for the great story at the end... God bless you! Everyone should be allowed to be who they feel they are, and everyone should be allowed to listen to the music that affects their soul... You keep the rock alive!
I loved this song back then and still do! When I go for a lunch hour walk, I'll put this whole album on the 'buds and it keeps my pace for the whole walk!
Glad you did this one, iconic.
I guess I was lucky that most everyone in my high school, minus the metal heads, liked all kinds of music. I remember the jock behind me in one class getting me into The Cult and The Smithereens among others
I absolutely loved the Cult. Sister's of Mercy too.
Loved the song SO much! Also loved “Brand New Lover”, and so many of their club hits. “There is Something in My House” is ass-kicking good!
Something in My House ... that's a song that just makes you grove!
Both great songs that should be discovered more.
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 I know all of those songs and they’re all amazing not a single bad one now that’s a great artist 👍
@@TAFGU 👍 Agree.
@@deanhinther2206 it's a Halloween classic
I tell you what, all it takes is one person in a position of power who has genuine confidence (not the insecure bravado so many people think is confidence) to tip the scales and shut down a bully. I remember someone just mocking me for a salad I’d mixed up in the cafeteria. I was the only one who was gonna eat it but they just had to make a comment, “That looks like barf!”
Well, there was this one girl sitting nearby who didn’t care what people thought. She moved through the middle school environment as though encased in armor. Nothing shields you so much from the social side of bullying than utter indifference. I’m also pretty sure this tiny little southern girl could confidentally beat the hell out of most bullies if it went to blows. Well, she heard this nonsense, looks at me, and says pleasantly, “Tastes good, though, don’t it?” I was basically the school pariah and this tiny little pinch of reason was so incredibly powerful. It was a simple, “Yeah. And?” and I was too scared and insecure to ever be able to manage it myself at that age. And the other girl shut up after that.
Sometimes you just need one more person in your corner.
Did... did. Did we just get Rick rolled by POR. 😅😅😅