Soft Cell

English synthesizer duo, who came to prominence in the early 1980s. They had a huge world-wide hit in 1981 with a cover version of Tainted Love (a northern soul classic originally sung by Gloria Jones), which they followed up with more charting singles and one of the first remix albums (Non-Stop Ecstatic Dancing). Their self-penned non-album single [m=4349] missed the No.1 spot of the UK charts by a hairbreadth. The Art Of Falling Apart followed in 1982, produced with Mike Thorne with Dave Ba...