Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. David Ball, right, with Marc Almond of Soft Cell in London in 1981. (Fin Costello / Redferns) David Ball of Soft Cell, whose ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dave Ball, the production half of groundbreaking Eighties synth duo Soft Cell, best remembered for their 1981 New Wave classic ...

Dave Ball, the instrumentalist in the synth-pop duo Soft Cell, who enjoyed a massive worldwide hit with their 1981 cover of Gloria Jones' song "Tainted Love," has died, according to the BBC. No ...

Today at Brookside at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, Marc Almond and Soft Cell will join Duran Duran, Blondie, Interpol, Simple Minds, Placebo, Adam Ant, Gary Numan, Ministry, The Mission UK ...

Dave Ball, one half of the pioneering synthpop duo Soft Cell, has passed away. Soft Cell's Instagram account confirms that Ball died peacefully at home in London on Wednesday. No cause of death has ...

David Ball of Soft Cell, whose delectably sleazy synth-pop arrangement drove that English duo’s 1981 hit “Tainted Love” to the top of the U.K. singles chart, died Wednesday. He was 66. The producer’s ...