"I can take solace that he heard this finished record and felt it was a great piece of work," singer writes of longtime ...

David Ball of Soft Cell, whose delectably sleazy synth-pop arrangement drove that English duo’s 1981 hit “Tainted Love” to ...

Dave Ball, who has died aged 66, was the keyboards man in Soft Cell, the synthpop duo who took the early Eighties pop scene ...

English producer and electronic musician Dave Ball passed away at the age of 66 on October 22, 2025, at his home in London.

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

Ball’s death comes just weeks after he appeared with Soft Cell for a headlining performance at a U.K. music festival.

One half of the influential synth-pop duo, Ball was a techno pioneer and “wonderfully brilliant musical genius,” says his ...

Along with singer Mark Almond, Soft Cell was best known for the 1981 hit song “Tainted Love.”  Almond announced his musical partner’s death Thursday.

The first-ever NYC edition of Lethal Amounts’ LA party Sex Cells went down at Brooklyn Bazaar on Friday (11/1), featuring Hercules and Love Affair, Amanda Lepore, Katie Rex, Blu Anxxiety, Matthew ...

The musician, best known for Tainted Love and Say Hello, Wave Goodbye, died in his sleep at home.

Stranger Things has been a crash course on ’80s culture for those too young to have lived through the decade themselves. For Marc Almond, whose band Soft Cell was the soundtrack to those exciting ...

Learn about the life and musical legacy of Dave Ball, co-founder of the iconic synth-pop duo Soft Cell and his impact on the ...