Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A three-photo collage of Dave Ball and Marc Almond of Soft Cell. Dave Ball, who served as half of the English duo Soft Cell and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dave Ball, left, with Marc Almond: they followed their era-defining debut album, Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret (1981), with one of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. English electronic music producer and one-half of the synth-pop duo Soft Cell, Dave Ball, has passed away at 66 years old. He's ...

On Thursday, Oct. 23, PEOPLE confirmed the news of his death, which was shared by Soft Cell's lead vocalist Marc Almond on Instagram "As many of you are aware, Dave has been ill for a long while and ...

In the late 1970s, Marc Almond and Dave Ball were both art students at Leeds. Finding common ground, the duo decided to join forces, creating the group Soft Cell. And for the next several decades, ...

Dave Ball, an electronic pioneer and one half of the trailblazing British synth-pop duo Soft Cell, has died. He was 66. Soft Cell lead vocalist Marc Almond shared the news Thursday, revealing that ...

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. ...

Dave Ball, the instrumentalist in hit '80s British synth-pop duo Soft Cell, has died. He was 66. The duo was best known for bringing cutting-edge electronic music to the masses with their massive 1981 ...

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Dave Ball, the multi-instrumentalist, producer, and songwriter who performed alongside Marc Almond in the influential synth-pop duo Soft Cell, died yesterday (October 22). The band’s publicist, Debbie ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. British music producer and instrumentalist Dave Ball, best known as one half of the pioneering synth-pop duo Soft Cell, has died.

Dave Ball, one half of iconic synthpop duo Soft Cell, has died after a long illness. He was 66. The news was shared via his bandmate Marc Almond, who wrote a lengthy tribute: It is hard to write this, ...