Pop-synth legend Marc Almond is celebrating his 69th birthday today.

Soft Cell recorded 'Tainted Love' after Marc Almond heard it playing in a club, deciding to put their own personal spin on it ...

Originally released in 1964, this song found worldwide success 17 years later after it was transformed it into one of the ...

A hit 1980s music group is set to release its final album. Soft Cell, best known for their version of “Tainted Love,” ...

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Soft Cell's final studio album will be a "fitting farewell" to late musician Dave Ball, his bandmate Marc Almond has said.

Synth-pop favorites Human League, Alison Moyet and Soft Cell delivered an '80s dance party. Find out which moments stole the ...

Dave Ball, one half of iconic synthpop duo Soft Cell, has died after a long illness. He was 66. The news was shared via his bandmate Marc Almond, who wrote a lengthy tribute: It is hard to write this, ...

In the late 1970s, Marc Almond and Dave Ball were both art students at Leeds. Finding common ground, the duo decided to join forces, creating the group Soft Cell. And for the next several decades, ...

Musician Dave Ball, who made up half the British synth-pop band Soft Cell, is dead at 66. Along with singer Mark Almond, Soft Cell was best known for the 1981 hit song “Tainted Love.” Almond announced ...

Soft Cell's Dave Ball has died at the age of 66 - just weeks after completing a new album. Ball's representative confirmed he had "passed away peacefully in his sleep at his London home" on Wednesday ...

Dave Ball, one half of the pioneering synthpop duo Soft Cell, has passed away. Soft Cell's Instagram account confirms that Ball died peacefully at home in London on Wednesday. No cause of death has ...