If knowing the words to “Tainted Love” describes the breadth of your appreciation for Soft Cell, you probably weren’t at Wednesday night’s concert at the YouTube Theater, but you wouldn’t have ...

A musician behind one of the biggest hits of the 1980s is dead at age 66. Dave Ball, one-half of the synth-pop duo Soft Cell, died Wednesday, according to bandmate Marc Almond. The BBC reports Ball ...

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 ...

Dave Ball, the production half of groundbreaking Eighties synth duo Soft Cell, best remembered for their 1981 New Wave classic cover of “Tainted Love,” died on Wednesday of natural causes. He was 66. ...