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“Soft Cell” are an duo who came to prominence in the early 1980s. They consist of vocalist Marc Almond and instrumentalist David Ball. The duo is most widely known for their 1981 worldwide hit version of “Tainted Love” and influential multi-platinum debut ‘’Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret’‘. In the UK, they had five Top 5 hits, including “Bedsitter”, “Say Hello, Wave Goodbye”, “Torch” and “What!”, and also had four Top 20 albums between 1981 and 1984. The duo split in 1984, but reformed in the early 2000s to tour and released a new album in 2002. Their songs have been covered by various artists including David Gray, Marilyn Manson, Nouvelle Vague and A-ha.
Both Marc Almond and Dave Ball grew up in seaside towns (the former, southport, and the latter, blackpool), and later met while students at the leeds Polytechnic Fine Arts University (now Leeds Metropolitan University). Almond, a performance artist, collaborated with Ball on a few avant-garde multi-media performances at the university. Although Ball’s musical background consisted of guitar, he had access to the university studio and was experimenting with the nascent synthesizer technology at the time. The two students became the p...
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Top 10 Soft Cell Songs
Tainted Love
Sex Dwarf
Bedsitter
Say Hello, Wave Goodbye
Seedy Films
Frustration
Torch
Memorabilia
Youth
Entertain Me
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Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret
The Very Best Of Soft Cell
Tainted Love / Where Did Our Love Go
Say Hello To Soft Cell
The Very Best Of
The Singles
Non Stop Ecstatic Dancing
The Art Of Falling Apart
Tainted Love
Non Stop Erotic Cabaret (Deluxe Edition)
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