Dave Ball, one half of the influential and chart-topping new wave band Soft Cell, has died. He was 66.

Representatives for the musician told The Guardian that he passed away at his home in London on Wednesday.

No cause of death was provided, but the BBC reports that he had been in ill health in recent years and had performed a Soft Cell show weeks earlier while in a wheelchair.

Soft Cell’s singer, Marc Almond, paid tribute to Ball on social media.

“It is hard to write this, let alone process it, but it is with the greatest sadness that the other half of Soft Cell, the wonderful brilliant musical genius David Ball, died peacefully in his sleep on Tuesday night,” Almond wrote on Instagram . “As many of you are aware, Dave has been ill for a long while and his health had been in slo

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