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

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

Singer Marc Almond, who formed Soft Cell with Ball while they were art students at Leeds Polytechnic in 1979 and went on to have worldwide hits with the songs Tainted Love, Bedsitter, Say Hello Wave ...

Almond, who is gay, and Ball, who was straight, formed Soft Cell in 1978. After releasing an EP and several fledgling singles ...

Ball’s health problems started with an incident where he fell down the stairs at his South London-based residence three years ...

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.

In a moving tribute to his late Soft Cell bandmate Dave Ball, who died this week at the age of 66, Marc Almond remarked that ...

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

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, ...

British music producer and instrumentalist Dave Ball, best known for his work in the iconic synth-pop duo Soft Cell, has died ...

Case in point, the British synth-pop group Soft Cell, which comprised members, vocalist Marc Almond and instrumentalist David ...

Dave Ball, Soft Cell's synthesizer player who founded the New Wave band in 1981 alongside Marc Almond, died in his sleep at 66.