SOFT CELLS NON-STOP EROTIC CABARET
Even the delighted Soft Cell duo themselves will admit to their surprise at having had 1981s best-selling English singly with Tainted Love," a record which went on to enjoy major chart success world-wide. Its been a major victory for singer Marc Almond and synthesizer player Dave Ball,
SOFT CELLS NON-STOP EROTIC CABARET
TAINTED LOVE, TAINTED DREAMS:
by Chris Salewicz
Even the delighted Soft Cell duo themselves will admit to their surprise at having had 1981s best-selling English singly with Tainted Love," a record which went on to enjoy major chart success world-wide.
Its been a major victory for singer Marc Almond and synthesizer player Dave Ball, a pair of art school lads from Leeds in the North of England. Prior to this huge hit and the subsequent gold disc for their NonStop Erotic Cabaret album, they had been dismissed by the British media as being little more than sub-Suicide-like dregs of New Romantic electro-pop.
They still live up in Yorkshire in Leeds, Victorian industrial city of a million inhabitants, to which each moved to acquire degrees in Fine Art at the beginning of the 70s. Marc and Dave each had been brought up in separate seaside resort towns on the Lancashire coast, some hundred miles to the west.
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