English producer and electronic musician Dave Ball passed away at the age of 66 on October 22, 2025, at his home in London.

A musician behind one of the biggest hits of the 1980s is dead at age 66. Dave Ball, one-half of the synth-pop duo Soft Cell, died Wednesday, according to bandmate Marc Almond. The BBC reports Ball ...

The band's 1981 classic "Tainted Love" cover was a mainstay on the MTV airwaves, turning the song into a global hit ...

One half of the influential synth-pop duo, Ball was a techno pioneer and “wonderfully brilliant musical genius,” says his bandmate Marc Almond ...

The producer and synth player, best known for his work as one half of the '80s pop duo, passed away peacefully on Wednesday ...

Dave Ball, co-founder of Soft Cell, has sadly died at the age of 66, with his bandmate Marc Almond sharing the tragic news with fans as he remembered the 'musical genius' ...

David Ball, co-founder of Soft Cell and co-creator of the 1981 synth-pop classic “Tainted Love,” has died at 66. Marc Almond and Richard Norris pay tribute to the music pioneer who helped define a ...

Along with singer Mark Almond, Soft Cell was best known for the 1981 hit song “Tainted Love.”  Almond announced his musical partner’s death Thursday.

Soft Cell’s Dave Ball, a pioneer of British synth-pop and one half of the duo behind Tainted Love, has died at the age of 66, days after completing the band’s final album Danceteria.

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 ...

Dave Ball, the songwriter, producer, instrumentalist, and one half of the English synthpop duo Soft Cell, has died at the age of 66.

David Ball of Soft Cell, whose delectably sleazy synth-pop arrangement drove that English duo’s 1981 hit “Tainted Love” to ...