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- Soft Cell are an English synth-pop duo who came to prominence in the early 1980s. The duo consists of vocalist Marc Almond and instrumentalist David Ball. The band are primarily known for their 1981 hit version of "Tainted Love" and their platinum-selling debut album Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret.
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Soft Cell are an English synth-pop duo who came to prominence in the early 1980s. The duo consists of vocalist Marc Almond and instrumentalist David Ball. The band are primarily known for their 1981 hit version of "Tainted Love" and their platinum-selling debut album Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret.
Ball was born in Chester, Cheshire, England, later adopted and brought up in Blackpool. He studied at Arnold School before studying art at Leeds Polytechnic, where he met Marc Almond; they formed the synthpop duo Soft Cell in 1978, the band lasting until 1984.
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Ball and future Soft Cell partner Marc Almond met at Leeds Polytechnic in 1976, where they were both studying Fine Art, and started writing and recording together in 1978, before performing their first gig together as Soft Cell at Leeds Polytechnic in December 1979.
- Say Hello
- ‘It Was Insane’
- ‘We Were No Longer Little Boys’
- Wave Goodbye
That story of Britain’s very first synth-pop duo can be traced back to Dave Ball’s enrolment day at Leeds Polytechnic. “I had to find someone who knew where to go,” he says. “I saw this guy in gold-lamé jeans, leopard-skin top, dyed black hair and loads of make-up, and thought he must be in the art department! Marc was actually the first person I s...
“Marc and I were still living in a bedsit in Leeds,” recalls Dave. “There was a payphone in the corridor downstairs and Marc took the call. I heard him screaming. It was insane. We were in the charts and being asked to do Top Of The Pops! “It was all so odd. We were living in this awful housing-association block, being flown on Concorde to New York...
With work starting on their second album, The Art Of Falling Apart, it was clear the Soft Cell sound was evolving. “The first album was a perfect pop album, but the second was more grown-up,” says Dave. “We had more life experience and were a bit jaded from being in a successful band. We were knackered and had taken too many drugs!” The LP’s first ...
No one can be sure what Soft Cell’s sound would have evolved into if the band had stayed together, but Dave believes house music, which dominated the end of the decade’s dance scene, would have made its mark. It’s a fascinating idea, but the reunion record – Cruelty Without Beauty– that came in 2002 was a simpler evolution of the musical DNA Soft C...
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Marc met David Ball at Leeds Art College and formed the internationally successful ‘electro duo’ Soft Cell in 1979. They went on to record four albums and their single Tainted Love broke all records as the track that remained the longest in the US Billboard Top 100 and received a Brit award for best single of that year.
6 days ago · Nick Levine. 20 Jul 2024. Marc Almond releases latest album I'm Not Anyone (Mark Wood) It feels quietly thrilling to find Marc Almond in Soho, the once-grimy London neighbourhood he sang about on Soft Cell’s iconic debut album, 1981’s Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret. Home to the era-defining hits Tainted Love, Bedsitter and Say Hello, Wave Goodbye ...
