Much-loved musician Dave Ball, who grew up in Blackpool and was a pioneering electronic artist best known as one half of the groundbreaking synth-pop duo Soft Cell has died peacefully in his sleep at ...

British music producer and instrumentalist Dave Ball, best known as one half of the pioneering synth-pop duo Soft Cell, has died. He was 66. Ball, who had been battling health issues in recent years, ...

When Marc Almond and David Ball formed Soft Cell, shortly after meeting while studying at Leeds Polytechnic art school in the late ’70s, the duo also began recording a number of cover songs. There was ...

The late Seventies and early Eighties saw the rise of electro-pop, artists influenced by punk’s Year Zero attitude, but who wanted break away from what had come before. Rather than rock guitars, they ...