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David James Ball (born 3 May 1959) is an English producer and electronic musician, who has played in bands such as Soft Cell and the Grid, and collaborated with other producers including Ingo Vauk and Chris Braide. He is usually called Dave Ball on record sleeves.
Growing up in seaside resort Blackpool, Dave developed a wide appreciation of contemporary music, including a lifelong love of Northern Soul. Dave taught himself to play guitar, bass, and of course synthesiser, while fully absorbing the culture of the 1970’s music scene.
Jun 20, 2020 · THESE days Dave Ball, the other one in Soft Cell, is 61 years old, and living with synths and keyboards and a heart condition in south-east London. As he has chronic obstructive pulmonary...
Dec 2, 2020 · A Walk on the Wild Side of Life. David Ball. •. 138K views • 9 years ago. •. Share your videos with friends, family, and the world.
Jan 4, 2021 · Like a lot of us, Ball’s first musical purchase was a guitar, but after his dad - an engineer - persuaded him to build his own amplifier, Ball suddenly found himself drawn to the emerging world of electronic sound.
Jun 19, 2020 · Musician Dave Ball whose new book is Electronic Boy: My Life In And Out Of Soft Cell. June 19, 2020 at 2:00am BST. SOMETIMES it's the quiet ones who have the best stories. And in...
Jun 23, 2020 · In Soft Cell, one of Britain’s most successful synth-pop duos, Dave Ball was always the ‘quiet one’, a tall, moustachioed figure bent over a Korg keyboard while singer Marc Almond took centre stage in bangles and eyeliner. Yet, as his autobiography suggests, sometimes in eye-popping detail, he did a fair bit of living too.
