"Marc has asked us to pass on his thanks for all the good wishes he has received from his fans," reads a statement posted on his official site. "He is overwhelmed by the amount of support shown and says it has been a big help. He is recovering slowly in hospital but is confident he will get back to full health eventually."

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British synth-pop pioneers Soft Cell formed in 1980 in Leeds, England, by art students Alm...

British synth-pop pioneers Soft Cell formed in 1980 in Leeds, England, by art students Almond and Dave Ball, who had previously collaborated on music for theatrical productions. They scor...

To English popmusic fans, there is nothing like a good six-month fad. The punk explosion, the warmed-over mods, the ska craze and the psychedelic revival–don't look now, but you just missed the New Romantics–have come and gone (and in some cases, come again) with such confounding rapidity that it is hard to take most of them any more seriously than Hula Hoops or edible underwear.

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Soft Cell's "Tainted Love" shot off its percussive guns on dance floors for some forty-three weeks last year, making it the single with the longest run ever on Billboard's chart. But that gem aside, the duo mainly makes weirdly lofty tracks that set Marc Almond's howlingly overwrought vocalizing to the varied electronic music of David Ball. Little of what Ball has come up with on the new album has...