UNITED KINGDOM - NOVEMBER 01: Photo of Marc ALMOND and SOFT CELL; Marc Almond & Dave Ball (Photo by Fin Costello/Redferns) Forty years ago, U.K. synthpop duo Soft Cell released 1981’s song of the ...

Soft Cell legend Marc Almond is sitting with Yahoo Entertainment in the lobby of a posh West Hollywood hotel, getting ready to fly back to the U.K. after a whirlwind weekend trip to play the second ...

Last year, Marc Almond and David Ball reunited Soft Cell for their first show since 2004 in London, which they also said would be their last show ever, and they also released their first new song in ...

Stranger Things has been a crash course on ’80s culture for those too young to have lived through the decade themselves. For Marc Almond, whose band Soft Cell was the soundtrack to those exciting ...

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 ...

UK label Heavenly Recordings is turning 25 this year, and they’re releasing a few special singles to celebrate. They got relatively recent signee Mark Lanegan and early star Beth Orton to record a ...

It’s time to dig out those leg warmers and neon accessories as Whitby’s music fans are cordially invited to the ‘80s Calling ...

Onetime Soft Cell singer Marc Almond had decided that his 2010 solo LP Varieté would be his last. At least until English producer and songwriter Chris Braide dropped him a line. Says Marc: I felt the ...

Marc Almond of Soft Cell has an apt metaphor for life at his age. He likens it to the bars that measure the power left on a mobile phone. “I’ve got about one bar left,” he says. “And I don’t have a ...

A decade ago Almond might have celebrated by doing something a little more transgressive than performing on stage in West London, but Monday's gig found him more comfortable in his skin that I have ...