I was extremely skeptical when Picture Main Street was first announced. It was pitched as a project to get fewer cars downtown and lots more bikes. Nice goal, pure fantasy: Northampton is spread out ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. David Ball, the co-founder of beloved English synth pop duo Soft Cell has died at 66. An Instagram post announcing the news noted ...

David Ball, the multi-instrumentalist half of the 1980s synth-pop duo Soft Cell, has died at the age of 66. The group hit the Top 10 in 1982 with their new wave cover of “Tainted Love,” a 1964 song by ...

Multi-instrumentalist David Ball, who scored a No. 1 hit with 1981’s “Tainted Love” as part of the English synth-pop duo Soft Cell, has died. He was 66 years old. According to a statement from his ...