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Dave Ball, a producer and half of the English synth-pop duo Soft Cell, whose 1981 single “Tainted Love” became one of the ...

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Electronic music pioneer Dave Ball, one half of Leeds synth-pop legends Soft Cell and successful acid house act The Grid, has ...

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.