The group is celebrating the 40th anniversary of “Once Upon a Time” — the album that, with massive help from “Don’t You ...

Get ready for a night of pure 80’s nostalgia, a complete mash up of EVERYTHING 80’S ... It’s time to dust of your sweatbands, leg warmers & double denim (if you dare) for the ULTIMATE 80’S ...

a number of times while the Macalope was writing this column he was calling the company “Soft Cell” in his head instead of “SellCell.” His writing is almost certainly “tainted” by his ...

One of the biggest acts of the early 1980s UK synth-pop explosion, Leeds duo Soft Cell thrust themselves almost by accident to the movement’s fore with their 1981 cover of Gloria Jones’ hit track ...

ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS… ‘TAINTED LOVE – THE CLUB PARTY ... George Michael, Culture Club, Soft Cell, Rick Astley, Bananarama, Madonna, Prince, Depeche Mode, Pet Shop Boys, Wham ...

Yet 2025 will be Soft Cell’s first time in Australia. In 2021, the duo began a 40th Anniversary tour of their debut album, Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret - home to Tainted Love. Initially confined to ...

Most know him from his role in Soft Cell and his subsequent solo career ... points in his career – including big hits such as Tainted Love, itself a cover of Gloria Jones’s 1964 song.

Now in a new book, Bedsit land: The strange worlds of Soft ... love” feature that he wrote for the online music and pop culture magazine The Quietus to mark the 40th anniversary of Soft Cell ...

Soft Cell, consisting of vocalist Marc Almond and instrumentalist David Ball – are set to tour in Australia for the first-ever. The kings of the 80’s leather-clad music scene will be taking their ...

Soft Cell delivered one of the greatest hits in the 80s with ‘Tainted Love’ but the band (Marc Almond and Dave Ball) had a short story. The first album ‘Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret’ sparked in ...

In 2022, Soft Cell returned with their first studio album in 20 years ... the singer who cut the original version of Tainted Love in 1964. It’s a cute full circle moment for Almond, and another career ...

whose recording of “Tainted Love” inspired Soft Cell’s hit version. Almond hasn’t tinkered with the songs much, although he says he couldn’t stick to the Christian lyrics of Mahalia ...