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

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

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

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 ...

Soft Cell’s Dave Ball, a pioneer of British synth-pop and one half of the duo behind Tainted Love, has died at the age of 66, days after completing the band’s final album Danceteria.

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 ...

Marc Almond has led the tributes to Soft Cell's Dave Ball, who has died aged 66 in London on October 22nd. He passed away in ...