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Star of Tainted Love hitmakers Soft Cell dies aged 66

Electronic musician Dave Ball, who was one half of the popular 1980s band Soft Cell, has died at the age of 66.

The musician, who formed the duo with Marc Almond, died on Wednesday, just days after completing a new Soft Cell album. Formed in the late 1970s, Soft Cell were pioneers of the synth-pop sound which would become popular in the 1980s, and became best known for songs such as their chart-topping cover of Gloria Jones's Tainted Love, Say Hello, Wave Goodbye, and Torch.

Paying tribute, Almond, 68, described Ball as a "wonderfully brilliant musical genius" and said they were "always a bit chalk-and-cheese.

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