Pop-synth legend Marc Almond celebrated his 69th birthday yesterday. Peter Mark Almond—known professionally as Marc ...

David Ball, the multi-instrumentalist half of the 1980s synth-pop duo Soft Cell, has died at the age of 66. The group hit the Top 10 in 1982 with their new wave cover of “Tainted Love,” a 1964 song by ...

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

He was a producer and one half of the pioneering English synth-pop duo. By Aimee Ortiz Dave Ball, a producer and half of the English synth-pop duo Soft Cell, whose 1981 single “Tainted Love” became ...

How does a somewhat unheard 60s B-side eventually become one of the most iconic hits of the 1980s? “Tainted Love” took one of the most bizarre journeys ever from its humble origins to its belatedly ...

English synth-pop duo Soft Cell, consisting of vocalist Marc Almond and instrumentalist Dave Ball, helped usher in the second British invasion of musical artists in the ’80s, most notably with their ...