A key 1980s electro-pop act, Soft Cell are back for “One Night – One Final Time”, as the posters have it. There’s huge anticipation in the sold-out O2. They did farewell gigs at the Hammersmith Palais ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In 2018, Soft Cell staged a farewell concert at London’s O2 Arena. It was intended as a grand exit for the ...

The late Seventies and early Eighties saw the rise of electro-pop, artists influenced by punk’s Year Zero attitude, but who wanted break away from what had come before. Rather than rock guitars, they ...