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Speaker 1: The Sure Report on ninety six.

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Speaker 2: AIRVM Sad News This Morning. Dave Ball, one half of

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Speaker 2: Soft Cell, has died. His partner in Soft Cell, Mark Harman,

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Speaker 2: has paid tribute to Ball, writing he was a wonderfully

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Speaker 2: brilliant musical genius. Thank you, Dave for being an immense

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Speaker 2: part of my life and for the music you gave me.

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't be where I am without you. Dave and

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Speaker 2: Mark form soft Cell in nineteen seventy nine. The flamboyant

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Speaker 2: frontman Armond was into pop, soul and sixties ballads, while

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Speaker 2: the more reserved Ball had an interest in that whole

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Speaker 2: synthesizer sound. Dave said, we were a weird couple, Mark,

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Speaker 2: this gay bloke in makeup and me a big guy

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Speaker 2: who looked like his minder. But it worked, and of

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Speaker 2: course in nineteen eighty one they gave us one of

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Speaker 2: the biggest hits of the eighties.

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Speaker 1: And what a great combination of soul and synth.

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Speaker 2: Tainted Love was a cover of a song by American

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Speaker 2: soul singer Gloria Jones, which had never had chart success

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Speaker 2: until they got hold of it. Went to number one

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Speaker 2: in sixteen countries, including Australia. Ball published his memoir Electronic Boy,

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Speaker 2: My Life in and Out of Soft Cell in twenty twenty.

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Speaker 2: He sustained numerous fractures in a fall down some stairs

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Speaker 2: in twenty twenty two, and he spent seven months in hospital,

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Speaker 2: including time in an induced coma.

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Speaker 1: Another one from a fall yep.

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Speaker 2: He passed away peacefully in his sleep at his London

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Speaker 2: home yesterday. He was sixty six. Creator of The Sopranos,

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Speaker 2: David Chase is finally returning to TV with a new

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Speaker 2: show about an infamous mind control experiment by the CIA.

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Speaker 2: Chase hasn't made any television since The Sopranos ended. He's

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Speaker 2: been focusing on film projects like the Sopranos prequel, The

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Speaker 2: Many Saints of Newark, but that's about to change. Chase's

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Speaker 2: new show, titled Project mk Ultra, is a limited series

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Speaker 2: based on the nonfiction book Project mind Control by author

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Speaker 2: John Liesl. It's about infamous chemist and spymaster Sidney go Lib,

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Speaker 2: often known as the Black Sorcerer, who headed the CIA's

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Speaker 2: Psychedelic Program, which conducted dangerous and deadly mind control experiments

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Speaker 2: on willing and unwilling subjects during the height of the

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Speaker 2: Cold War. Got lives known as the unwitting godfather of

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Speaker 2: LSD counterculture and something a bit unusual from Spain this morning,

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Speaker 2: where they're thieves like to sit down on the job.

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Speaker 2: Evidently Spanish police, Yes, exactly, Spanish police have arrested a

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Speaker 2: gang of seven people suspected of stealing more than a

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Speaker 2: thousand chairs from outdoor seating areas in Madrid and Televera

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Speaker 2: della Reina. Authorities said the cost of the stolen property

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Speaker 2: is well over one hundred thousand dollars. The suspects were

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Speaker 2: reselling the chairs in Spain, Morocco and Romania. In Spain,

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Speaker 2: restaurants and bars often leave their tables and chairs outdoors overnight,

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Speaker 2: usually just stacking and chaining the chairs for security.

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Speaker 1: Not enough security.

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Speaker 2: Seemingly, it's such a niche heist, isn't it in chairs?

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Speaker 1: Is profit in just about everything.

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Speaker 2: They're not describing it as brazen, which has been the

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Speaker 2: word over the week, of course, courtesy of the robbery

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Speaker 2: at the.

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Speaker 1: Lou Yes, well there you.

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Speaker 2: Go, so brazen. But yeah, still it's.

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Speaker 1: Not quite Crowndruls, not quite Crown Jewels. But you know

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Speaker 1: there's money you park your crowded there's money in outdoor furniture. Too,

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Speaker 1: you know, oh yes, absolutely, there you go.