Dave Ball
Sign in to saveEnglish record producer and electronic musician (1959–2025)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 12
Top works
- Reflections of a Self-Confessed Wazzock
- Guinea Pigs Don't Bounce
- Official Liverpool Quiz Book Vol 3
- Hiccups Holiday Hunt a Christmas Adventure
- Hiccup's Haunted Halloween Hunt
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1962-06-27
classic pop and rock
Discography
- Michael Ball1992
- A Christmas Spectacular of Carols and Songs1992
- Always1993
- One Careful Owner1994
- First Love1995
- Christmas1999
- The Movies1999
- This Time... It's Personal2000
- Centre Stage2002
- A Love Story2003
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 7,254
- Total plays
- 61,277
Tags
experimentalelectronicnew waveminimal synthsynthpop
Dave Ball (David Ball) was a member of 80s iconic electronic duo Soft Cell along with Marc Almond and of 90s electronic dance act The Grid. Soft Cell briefly reformed in 2002, although they are once again lying dormant whilst both Ball and Almond concentrate on their solo work. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Dave+Ball">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,357x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,412x
- Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,443x
- Biological identifications through DNA barcodes
· 2003 · cited 10,348x
- GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral
· 2017 · cited 8,084x
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- David Ball of Soft Cell 1983 (cropped).jpg
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- date of birth
- 1959-05-03
- Commons category
- David Ball (British musician)
- start of work period
- 1977-00-00
- birth name
- David James Ball
- name in native language
- David Ball
- date of death
- 2025-10-22
- end of work period
- 2025-00-00
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1959 births2025 deaths20th-century English musicians21st-century English musiciansAlumni of Leeds Beckett UniversityEnglish electronic musiciansEnglish keyboardistsEnglish multi-instrumentalistsEnglish record producersEnglish remixersEnglish synth-pop new wave musiciansMusicians from BlackpoolNational Portrait Gallery (London) person ID not in WikidataPeople educated at Arnold SchoolSoft Cell membersSome Bizzare Records artists