Soft Cell's Dave Ball has died.

The musician's representative revealed he had "passed away peacefully in his sleep at his London home" on Wednesday (22.10.25) at the age of 66, with his bandmate Marc Almond noting the "brilliant musical genius" had been in poor health for some time.

Marc wrote on his website: "It is hard to write this, let alone process it, but it is with the greatest sadness that the other half of Soft Cell, the wonderful brilliant musical genius David Ball, died peacefully in his sleep... As many of you are aware, Dave has been ill for a long while and his health had been in slow decline over recent years.

"Yet he always came back with a determined spirit to continue his work in the studio and, although he has been unable to travel abroad, he has still been able to pe

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