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Soft Cell Singer Stable After Crash
Soft Cell singer Marc Almond is on the mend Monday after a near-fatal bike accident.
Almond, one half of the British duo best known for the 1981 chart-topper "Tainted Love," suffered life-threatening injuries Sunday afternoon when the motorcycle he was riding on as a passenger collided with a car in London's financial district.
He was subsequently taken to the Royal London Hospital where he underwent surgery for head injuries and was listed in critical condition.
"Both the motorcycle rider and the pillion [backseat] passenger are in hospital. The rider has severe injuries and the pillion passenger is critical," a police spokesman told Britain's Press Association. "City of London Police are investigating the collision. We can confirm that one of the parties was Soft Cell's Marc Almond."
Reps for the rocker could not be reached for comment Monday. But British media reports indicated that doctors upgraded Almond's condition to stable later earlier in the day.
Almond, 48, started Soft Cell with fellow art student and musician David Ball back in 1980 in the northern England town of Leeds. The duo rode the New Wave craze to the top of the charts with the synth-heavy remake of "Tainted Love," which not only ranked as Britain's biggest-selling single for 1981, but also scored the duo massive success Stateside and assured them one-hit wonder status.
After touring heavily and selling more than 10 million records worldwide, Almond and Ball's internal squabbles instensified. Soft Cell released the aptly named The Art of Falling Apart in 1984 and then announced its breakup shortly before the release of 1984's This Last Night in Sodom.
Almond recorded solo albums, founded an electronic outfit called Marc and the Mambas and moonlighted as a deejay, while Ball remained out of sight for several years.
In 2002, the two reunited and released a new Soft Cell record, Cruelty Without Beauty, which spawned the Top 40 U.K. hit "The Night," followed by the duo's first trek in nearly two decades that made stops in Europe and America.
Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Gene Pitney, who performed with Almond on the 1990 hit "Something's Gotten Hold of My Heart," issued a statement of support for Almond on Monday, hailing his former collaborator as a "tremendous talent" and calling news of his upgraded condition "terrific."
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