Mushy Cell founder Dave Ball left simply over £2 million in his will, following his demise on the age of 66.
Mushy Cell founder Dave Ball
The musician – who died in October 2025 – left an property value £3,359,276, which was lowered to £2,516,485 after taxes, money owed and different prices have been deducted.
His 4 kids inherited the property, with son James and daughter Victoria receiving 30 per cent every, whereas daughter Georgina and son Elliott bought 20 per cent every, in line with The Solar.
Dave’s ex-wife, violinist-and-backing vocalist Gini Hewes, was reportedly not talked about within the three-page doc.
The Tainted Love hitmaker’s may even revealed that he left a £25,000 legacy to his buddy, photographer David Chambers, and expressed his want to be cremated.
Dave “handed away peacefully in his sleep at his London residence” on October 22, 2025.
He beforehand battled pneumonia and developed sepsis, which resulted in him being positioned in an induced coma for seven months, and likewise suffered a critical again damage.
Dave’s bandmate Marc Almond wrote on his web site: “It’s laborious to jot down this, not to mention course of it, however it’s with the best disappointment that the opposite half of Mushy Cell, the fantastic sensible musical genius David Ball, died peacefully in his sleep…As lots of you’re conscious, Dave has been unwell for a protracted whereas and his well being had been in gradual decline over current years.
“But he at all times got here again with a decided spirit to proceed his work within the studio and, though he has been unable to journey overseas, he has nonetheless been in a position to carry out with me as Mushy Cell on events within the UK.
“His final look was on the Rewind pageant a number of weeks in the past, the place we headlined to over 20,000 individuals, after which he was elated and given an unlimited enhance. (sic)”
The Say Hi there, Wave Goodbye artist revealed he and Dave had been engaged on a brand new album collectively, which is ready to be launched in September.
Marc continued: “It’s most heartbreaking, notably at the moment, that Dave was in an awesome place emotionally, feeling centered and pleased with the brand new album, Danceteria, that we actually had solely simply accomplished days in the past.
“I listened to the whole album for the primary time yesterday. It makes me so unhappy as this might have been an awesome uplifting yr for him and I can take solace that he heard this completed document and felt it was an awesome piece of labor.
“Dave’s music is healthier than ever – his tunes, his hooks unmistakably Mushy Cell. But he at all times took it to a special stage…
“It is becoming in lots of ways in which the following (and now the final) album collectively is known as Danceteria because the theme takes us for a go to again to virtually the beginning of all of it, again to New York within the early 80’s, the place and time that actually formed us.
“We at all times felt we have been an honorary American band in addition to quintessentially British. We now have at all times been self-referential to the Mushy Cell story and myths and this album in some ways will shut that circle for us.
“I want he may have stayed on to rejoice 50 years in a few years time. He’ll at all times be cherished by followers who cherished his music. It is a cliche to say but it surely lives on and someplace at any given time all over the world somebody listens to, performs, dances, and will get pleasure from a Mushy Cell tune – even when it is simply that specific two and half minute epic. (sic)”
Marc ended his assertion by thanking his late buddy and providing help to his household.
He wrote: “My ideas are along with his household at the moment.
“Thanks Dave for being an immense a part of my life and for the music you gave me. I would not be the place I’m with out you. (sic)”
Mushy Cell shaped in 1979 when Marc and Dave have been artwork college students in Leeds and launched their trailblazing debut album Non-Cease Erotic Cabaret in 1981, paving the best way for the likes of different digital acts reminiscent of Pet Store Boys, Eurythmics and Erasure.
Their second single, Tainted Love, was Britain’s best-selling single of 1981 and topped the charts within the UK and 17 different international locations all over the world.
The group launched 4 extra albums between 1982 and 2021, in addition to what’s considered as one of many first remix albums, Non-Cease Ecstatic Dancing.
In addition to Mushy Cell, Dave was additionally one half of The Grid alongside Richard Norris, with them greatest recognized for the Nineties single Swamp Factor, and likewise labored with artists together with Kylie Minogue and the late David Bowie.
