OBITUARY
DAVE BALL
3 MAY 1959 – 22 OCTOBER 2025
© Mike Owen
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Classic Pop
is devastated to learn of the death of Dave Ball, half of Soft Cell and The Grid and a respected producer for Kylie, The Virgin Prunes and Billie Ray Martin, as well as a remixer for David Bowie and Erasure. He was 66.
Dave was one of synth-pop’s great visionaries, his passion for music and synthesizers leading him to write the music for a string of varied classic singles, from the melancholia of
Torch
and
Say Hello, Wave Goodbye
to the dark mania of
Bedsitter
and
Soul Inside
and the mischief of The Grid’s acid house smash
Swamp Thing
.