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Pete Burns
Pete Burns
English singer-songwriter
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Simply Red
Simply Red
English soul band
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The Silencers
The Silencers
Scottish rock band
3
D Ream
D Ream
Northern Irish pop and dance band
4
The Gap Band
The Gap Band
American R&B and funk band
5
The Hollies
The Hollies
English pop group formed in Manchester in the early 1960s
6
Sunscreem
Sunscreem
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Dexys Midnight Runners
Dexys Midnight Runners
band
8
ABC
ABC
English musical group; New Romantic pop band
9
Bananarama
Bananarama
English pop group
10
Alphaville
Alphaville
German rock band
11
Kenny Thomas
Kenny Thomas
British singer
12
Level 42
Level 42
English jazz-funk band
13
Sneaker Pimps
Sneaker Pimps
British Trip Hop band
14
Thompson Twins
Thompson Twins
British band
15
Train
Train
American pop rock band
16
Utah Saints
Utah Saints
band that plays electronica
17
Chicane
Chicane
English musician, composer, songwriter and record producer
18
The Human League
The Human League
English electronic New Wave band
19
The Lightning Seeds
The Lightning Seeds
English rock band
20
The Boomtown Rats
The Boomtown Rats
band
21
Pete Wylie
Pete Wylie
English singer-songwriter
22
The Kinks
The Kinks
English rock band
23
Loleatta Holloway
Loleatta Holloway
American singer (1946–2011)
24
Simple Minds
Simple Minds
Scottish rock band formed in 1977
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The Boxer Rebellion
The Boxer Rebellion
band
26
The Trammps
The Trammps
American soul band
27
Franz Ferdinand
Franz Ferdinand
British rock band from Glasgow
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The Beloved
The Beloved
English electronic dance music group
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Love Sculpture
Love Sculpture
Welsh band
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Nazareth
Nazareth
Scottish hard rock band
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The Farm
The Farm
British band from Liverpool
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Atomic Rooster
Atomic Rooster
English band
33
Mike Stock
Mike Stock
British record producer, songwriter
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Cathy Dennis
Cathy Dennis
British singer, songwriter, record producer and actress
35
Rick Astley
Rick Astley
British singer and songwriter
36
The Charlatans
The Charlatans
English rock band
37
Dina Carroll
Dina Carroll
English singer of Scottish and African American heritage
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Graham Parker
Graham Parker
British singer
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Billie Ray Martin
Billie Ray Martin
German singer
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Alex Gaudino
Alex Gaudino
Italian musician
41
Travie McCoy
Travie McCoy
American rapper and singer from New York
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Alexander O'Neal
Alexander O'Neal
American musical artist
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Bronski Beat
Bronski Beat
British synthpop trio
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Gorgon City
Gorgon City
English electronic music production duo
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Surface
Surface
American band
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Kelis
Kelis
American singer–songwriter
47
Peter Brown
Peter Brown
American singer
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N-Trance
N-Trance
British electronica band
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Saint Etienne
Saint Etienne
British band
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Van McCoy
Van McCoy
American musician, record producer, arranger, songwriter, singer and orchestra conductor
Members, past and present

Dead or Alive were an English pop band that released seven albums from 1984 to 2000. The band formed in 1980 in Liverpool and found success in the mid-1980s, releasing seven singles that made the UK Top 40 and three albums on the UK Top 30. They were the first band under the production team of Stock Aitken Waterman to have a number-one single. At the peak of their success, the lineup consisted of Pete Burns (vocals), Mike Percy (bass), Steve Coy (drums) and Tim Lever (keyboards).

Two of the band's singles reached the U.S. Top 20 on the Billboard Hot 100: "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" (No. 11 in August 1985) and "Brand New Lover" (No. 15 in March 1987).

"You Spin Me Round" peaked at number one for two weeks in 1985 in the UK, then charted again in 2006 following Burns' appearance on the television reality show Celebrity Big Brother. It also became the first of two singles to top the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart. In December 2016, Billboard ranked them as the 96th most successful "dance artist" of all time. As of 2017 Dead or Alive had sold over 30 million albums and 28 million singles worldwide. The band was discontinued following Pete Burns' death in 2016.