Pop-synth legend Marc Almond celebrated his 69th birthday yesterday. Peter Mark Almond—known professionally as Marc ...

Originally released in 1964, this song found worldwide success 17 years later after it was transformed it into one of the ...

Twirling and clapping along…This song must have been brand-new at the time. It wouldn’t even come out as a single in the U.S. for a couple more months. “Tainted Love” had a long rise to the top. But ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Almond took to social media to mark the occasion, posting some stills from a past live performance of the song as he wrote, ...

Soft Cell recorded 'Tainted Love' after Marc Almond heard it playing in a club, deciding to put their own personal spin on it ...

David Ball, the multi-instrumentalist half of the 1980s synth-pop duo Soft Cell, has died at the age of 66. The group hit the Top 10 in 1982 with their new wave cover of “Tainted Love,” a 1964 song by ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. See more from the L.A. Times in Google Search. Set us as preferred David Ball of Soft Cell, whose delectably ...