“The Days of Pearly Spencer” — Marc Almond
6 min readNov 21, 2020
Marc Almond has had an interesting musical journey. He started out as one half of pioneering synth-pop duo Soft Cell. Their biggest hit was the 1981 UK Number One “Tainted Love”, but they also racked up a series of commercial and critical successes before disbanding in the mid-1980s.
Soft Cell’s “Tainted Love” was a cover of Gloria Jones’s 1964 original with a synthesiser-based makeover…
