"When I was a child," recalls Pete Burns of Dead Or Alive "I wanted to be a stripper so badly. Then I thought I should be a priest." Well, if you've seen Dead Or Alive's more than slightly seedy videos, you will know Pete has fulfilled at least half of his childhood ambitions.

Prancing around in no more than a g-string, Burns adds more fuel to the gender-blending blaze sweeping the pop world. "People have seen me on the 'I'd Do Anything' video and said 'You can't show a woman's [breast] on the telly,'" he laughs.

Good thing Pete has a sense of humor, otherwise he might not have survived seven years of walking Liverpool's streets in full regalia. He shrugs off the hassles. "People always drop their pants in front of me and once in a while an old lady will come up and hit me," he says.

And you thought you had problems! The only thing that really irritates Pete is the comparisions to Boy-you-know-who. "We are not the new Culture Club," he says icily. "I've looked like this since 1977, so I'm obviously not a copyist."

"In England," he adds, "all there really is to do is sleep all day and dance all night," With their remake of KC's golden moldie "That's The Way I Like It" and the slick but sweaty Eurodisco originals like "What I Want," Dead Or Alive hope that state of affairs doesn't change for a long time.