Composer and singer, Marc Almond is associated with the advent of synthetic pop
and new-wave thanks to the track "Tainted Love", covered with David Ball, his
Soft Cell alter-ego, from 1982 to 1987. Yet Almond is not just the singer of one
glamorous hit: openly homosexual, he is a complex artist, author of an
impressive discography with Soft Cell, Marc & the Mambas (two albums in
1982-1983) and then solo from 1984 with the albums Vermin in Ermine (1984),
Stories of Johnny (1985), Mother Fist & Her Five Daughters (1987), then The
Stars We Are (1988), including a number-one duet wit...