{"id":68753,"date":"2025-10-24T09:19:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T09:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/no\/68753\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T09:19:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T09:19:09","slug":"elektronikapioneren-dave-ball-fra-soft-cell-er-dod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/no\/68753\/","title":{"rendered":"Elektronikapioneren Dave Ball fra Soft Cell er d\u00f8d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> David James Ball, kjent som Dave Ball, ble 66 \u00e5r gammel.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Han var et musikalsk geni, skriver Soft Cell-vokalist Marc Almond om gruppens instrumentalist i minneordet p\u00e5 gruppens <a href=\"https:\/\/www.softcell.co.uk\/dave-ball-tribute\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hjemmeside.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> Sammen grunnla de Soft Cell i 1979 og fikk sin st\u00f8rste hit to \u00e5r senere med sin versjon av soulklassikeren \u00ab <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XZVpR3Pk-r8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tainted Love<\/a> \u00bb \u2013 som i dag regnes som en klassiker i synthpopsjangeren, if\u00f8lge <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/soft-cell-and-the-grid-electronic-pioneer-david-ball-has-died-aged-66-a-wonderfully-brilliant-musical-genius-3901635?utm_source=feedly&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=soft-cell-and-the-grid-electronic-pioneer-david-ball-has-died-aged-66-a-wonderfully-brilliant-musical-genius\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NME<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Nytt album\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ingen av gruppens andre l\u00e5ter kunne m\u00e5le seg med storhiten, men Soft Cell regnes likevel som en forgjenger for grupper som Pet Shop Boys, Eurythmics og Yazoo.<\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"article__link\" data-ga-active-label=\"\" data-ga-active-label-animation=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tv2.no\/underholdning\/jeg-lever-pa-overtid\/18222351\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img class=\"image__img lazyload\" itemprop=\"image\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" width=\"978\" height=\"411\" bad-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/no\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761297549_440_18111884.webp\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n            \u2013 Jeg lever p\u00e5 overtid\n        <\/p>\n<p>    <\/a><\/p>\n<p> Soft Cell skilte lag i 1984, men ble gjenforent i 2018 foran 20.000 fans i Londons O2-arena. Marc Almond skriver i sitt minneord over bandkameraten p\u00e5 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DQJxNZejkwk\/?utm_source=ig_embed\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram <\/a> at Soft Cell akkurat hadde gjort klart et nytt album kalt \u00abDanceteria\u00bb. <\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Dristig og menneskelige\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ved siden av Soft Cell samarbeidet Dave Ball med en rekke andre artister, blant dem David Bowie, Kylie Minogue og Erasure. Med The Grid hadde han hitl\u00e5ten \u00abSwamp Thing\u00bb.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Arbeidet hans med Soft Cell og The Grid beviste at synther kunne v\u00e6re b\u00e5de dristige og dypt menneskelige, sier den britiske BMG-sjefen Alistair Norbury.<\/p>\n<p>Soft Cell turnerte i sommer i USA sammen med Simple Minds. <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David James Ball, kjent som Dave Ball, ble 66 \u00e5r gammel.\u00a0 \u2013 Han var et musikalsk geni, skriver&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[71,30,28,29,72],"class_list":{"0":"post-68753","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-underholdning","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-no","10":"tag-norge","11":"tag-norway","12":"tag-underholdning"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@no\/115428403615161131","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/no\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/no\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/no\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/no\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/no\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/no\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/no\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/no\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/no\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/no\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}