Yeah, he went from Pete Burns to Pete Burn Ward. It's a crime, as he did the glam-sexy genderfuck thing really well, without falling into Bowie or Reed's style. It sounds like he was taken advantage of by plastic surgeons. I mean, yeah, it's obvious they did a bad job -- but at a certain point he should have been questioning the competence of those people, but likely just became more obsessed.
That's one of my favorite '80s songs, too. :'(