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Soft Cell
A detailed catalogue profile for Soft Cell.
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1 album / credit record(s) · Synth-pop/New Wave
Marc Almond and Dave Ball's stark, seedy debut was built around their cover of Gloria Jones's 1964 Northern Soul single 'Tainted Love,' produced by Mike Thorne into a synth-pop juggernaut that topped charts worldwide and became the second best-selling UK single of 1981, driving over 200,000 US advance album orders for a duo initially tagged a one-hit wonder stateside.
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