Soft Cell have revealed the details of their upcoming sixth album Danceteria, a love letter to 80s New York and tribute to the late multi-instrumentalist and producer Dave Bell, and released the title ...

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Pop-synth legends Soft Cell have announced their final album, Danceteria, which will honor the late Dave Ball. Ball was a founding member of Soft Cell and died on October 22, 2025, just two days after ...

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. ...

Soft Cell’s swan song, Danceteria, has been set for release on September 25, via Republic of Music. The album’s existence was revealed last October, when the duo’s co-founder Dave Ball died at the age ...

British music producer and instrumentalist Dave Ball, best known as one half of the pioneering synth-pop duo Soft Cell, has died. He was 66. Ball, who had been battling health issues in recent years, ...

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 ...