A key 1980s electro-pop act, Soft Cell are back for “One Night – One Final Time”, as the posters have it. There’s huge anticipation in the sold-out O2. They did farewell gigs at the Hammersmith Palais ...

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 ...

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 ...