Marc Almond dealt with a lot of fame in his younger years – but he’s relieved he never had to deal with social media in the 1980s.
Synth-pop royalty Following the release of his latest solo album,Advertisementtoday that when he started Soft Cell with David Wall, they were “belligerent arts students”.
“We were really kind of against all that corporate-ness – and then suddenly we’re thrust into this very commercial corporate world of commercial pop music.“So, I just said, you know what - I'll just go on and be myself, I'll wear 10 times more eyeliner – and whatever it did, it worked.”The duo is most known for their version of ‘Tainted Love’, which broke the Guinness World Record at the time for the longest consecutive stay on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart.
from the media at that time, from the radio, from TV, from record companies, from the corporate side of things, a lot of homophobic things.
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