http://news.scotsman.com/entertainment.cfm?id=1212972004From The Scotsman
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"Duo Soft Cell, one of the biggest-selling acts of the early Eighties, split in 1984. Tainted Love, a cover of Gloria Jones’s soul classic, was the biggest-selling UK single of 1981 and the 10th biggest seller ever in the US at the time.
Other hits for the band included Torch, Bedsitter and Say Hello, Wave Goodbye.
After the split, Almond went on to have single success with covers of Scott Walker’s Jacky, David McWilliams’ Days Of Pearly Spencer and Gene Pitney’s Something’s Gotten Hold Of My Heart.
Flamboyant frontman Almond and musician David Ball reformed in 2001 to play a gig launching new venue Ocean in Hackney, east London. In 2002 the duo released a new album Cruelty Without Beauty, which was followed by a tour of Britain, Europe and America. A single The Night, taken from the new album, was a top 40 hit and saw Soft Cell perform together on Top Of The Pops for the first time since the 1980s. Almond has since gone on to develop a career as a DJ."