The Soft Cell story is one of wild, hedonistic success. Here, Marc Almond and Dave Ball confess all – about controversial performance art, New York’s depraved club scene, the perils of having hit records and their own eventual downfall. One bystander claims: “It was sex, drugs and electronic rock’n’roll!”

David Ball, Soft Cell's synthesizer who founded the new wave band in 1981 alongside Marc Almond, died in his sleep at 66.