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- Comfortable Cell co-founder and “Tainted Love” hitmaker Dave Ball has died on the age of 66
- On Thursday, Oct. 23, ipromiseyoumedia confirmed the information of his dying, which was shared by Comfortable Cell’s lead vocalist Marc Almond on Instagram
- “As lots of you’re conscious, Dave has been sick for an extended whereas and his well being had been in sluggish decline over latest years,” Almond wrote on Instagram
Comfortable Cell co-founder Dave Ball has died. He was 66.
On Thursday, Oct. 23, ipromiseyoumedia confirmed the information of his dying, which was shared by lead vocalist Marc Almond on Instagram. In line with a press release on Comfortable Cell’s official web site, Ball had “handed away peacefully in his sleep at his London residence” on Wednesday, Oct. 22.
“It’s exhausting to write down this, not to mention course of it, however it’s with the best unhappiness that the opposite half of Comfortable Cell, the fantastic sensible musical genius David Ball, died peacefully in his sleep on Tuesday night time. As lots of you’re conscious, Dave has been sick for an extended whereas and his well being had been in sluggish decline over latest years,” he started.
Almond, 68, famous that Ball all the time had a “decided spirit to proceed his work within the studio” regardless of being unable to journey overseas” and was capable of nonetheless carry out with him as Comfortable Cell at instances within the U.Ok.
He famous that Ball’s final look was on the Rewind Pageant in August, the place the late musician “was elated and given an infinite increase.”
“It is becoming in lots of ways in which the following (and now the final) album collectively is known as Danceteria because the theme takes us for a go to again to virtually the beginning of all of it, again to New York within the early 80’s, the place and time that basically formed us,” wrote Almond.
He continued: “We all the time felt we have been an honorary American band in addition to quintessentially British. We have now all the time been self referential to the Comfortable Cell story and myths and this album in some ways will shut that circle for us.”
Almond famous that he wished Ball was nonetheless alive to rejoice “to rejoice 50 years” as a band in just a few years.
“He’ll all the time be liked by followers who liked his music. It is a cliche to say but it surely lives on and someplace at any given time around the globe somebody listens to, performs, dances, and get’s pleasure from a Comfortable Cell tune – even when it is simply that exact two and half minute epic,” he wrote.
Added Almond: “My ideas are along with his household right now. Thanks Dave for being an immense a part of my life and for the music you gave me. I would not be the place I’m with out you.”
He then directed followers to a full assertion on his web site.
Alongside the put up, he shared a photograph of Ball in sun shades sporting a leather-based jacket along with his arms folded.
No official reason behind dying has been revealed right now.
Born in 1959 and raised in Blackpool, England, the electro-pop pioneer studied at the Arnold Faculty after which Leeds Polytechnic, the place he met Almond. In 1979, the duo fashioned Comfortable Cell whereas they have been each artwork college students on the faculty.
All through their profession, Comfortable Cell helped the sound of British music within the Eighties, starting with the discharge of their 1981 debut LP Non-Cease Erotic Cabaret, which helped usher in a wave of synth-pop artists like Eurythmics, Pet Store Boys and Erasure.
The band’s second single, a reworked cowl of the 1981 Ed Cobb-penned observe “Tainted Love,” topped the U.Ok. Singles Chart. and was generally known as the best-selling single of the 12 months within the U.Ok.
Ball, a fan of Northern soul and Kraftwerk, was generally known as the synth-pop innovator behind Comfortable Cell.
The band launched 4 extra studio albums between 1982 and 2021: The Artwork Of Falling Aside (1983); This Final Night time In Sodom (1984); Cruelty With out Magnificence (2002); and Happiness Not Included (2022). The pair additionally landed o secured 4 extra high 10 singles within the U.Ok. with 1981’s “Bedsitter” and 1982’s “Torch,” “What!,” and “Say Whats up, Wave Goodbye.”
Ball additionally fashioned pioneering acid home act The Grid, which discovered chart success with their 1994 tune “Swamp Factor.”
All through his profession, Ball additionally labored as a producer for Kylie Minogue, Gavin Friday and Anni Hogan and remixed for musicians like David Bowie and Erasure.