Dave Ball, synth-pop hitmaker as one half of Soft Cell, dies aged 66
The synth player and producer had huge success with Tainted Love and other Soft Cell hits, and later returned to the UK Top 10 with dance project the Grid.
RIP "The Colonel", Steve Cropper. A driving force behind Stax Records, with Wilson Pickett, Booker T. and the MGs, Otis Redding, and many more, and, apart from all of his other wonderful work, he was, of course, a Blues Brother.
