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. ...

Musician Dave Ball, who made up half the British synth-pop band Soft Cell, is dead at 66. Along with singer Mark Almond, Soft Cell was best known for the 1981 hit song “Tainted Love.” Almond ...

Multi-instrumentalist David Ball, who scored a No. 1 hit with 1981’s “Tainted Love” as part of the English synth-pop duo Soft Cell, has died. He was 66 years old. According to a statement from his ...

Dave Ball, founding member of the pioneering English synth-pop duo Soft Cell, died on Wednesday. Representatives for the musician told The Guardian that Ball “passed away peacefully in his sleep at ...

Electronic musician Dave Ball, who was one half of the popular 1980s band Soft Cell, has died at the age of 66. The musician, who formed the duo with Marc Almond, died on Wednesday, just days after ...

Marc Almond revealed in a statement honoring his Soft Cell band mate Dave Ball, who died Wednesday at the age of 66, that the group had just completed work on a new album shortly before Ball’s death.