Marc Almond is best known for being the lead singer of Soft Cell who are best known for the chart topper "Tainted Love". Unfortunately for Marc Almond, "Tainted Love" was a cover as was the B-side so it wasn't quite the money maker it could have been.
Soft Cell called it a day in early 84 and Marc Almonds solo career began. He failed to reach the Top 40 with any of his singles that year. The following year he was featured singer on Bronski Beats cover of "I Feel Love". He also managed to crack the Top 40 on his own for the first time with "Stories Of Johnny" which made number 23.
Several more singles would follow but he didn't make the Top 40 again until 1988 with "Tears Run Rings" which made number 26. That was also his only solo effort to date to make the Billboard 100. Then came this.
It was the 2nd single from his "The Stars We Are" album and was written by Marc Almond himself. Given the quantity of solo singles that never made the Top 40 this could be considered a success as it was his 3rd most successful solo effort to this point.
He followed this up in early 1989 with a cover of "Somethings Gotten Hold Of My Heart" featuring Gene Pitney which topped the charts. His follow up to that "Only the Moment" failed to make the Top 40 though.
Since then he's only reached the Top 20 twice as a solo artist with "Jacky" and "The Days Of Pearly Spencer" which are both covers. He has written all his Top 40 hits that didn't make the Top 20. As a songwriter that's probably quite annoying for him.
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