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The book tells the story of Soft Cell’s evolution from the strange and crumbling environs of north-west British seaside towns, through a radical art school education, the burgeoning independent music industry of the late 1970s and early 1980s, their exposure to the thriving club scene of New York, the seediness of the Soho sex industry, prolific drug use and increasingly esoteric influences from avant-garde artists. It explores how all these factors, many of which pulled the band in opposing directions, caused both a brief period of extraordinary musical output and a rapid implosion under the strain. Simultaneously, the book delves into the wider social history of the many environments in which the musicians Marc Almond and Dave Ball found themselves. Through interviews not only with the band, their friends and collaborators, but also historians, writers and other key cultural figures, it explores the social, historical and political factors that made these scenes just so influential when Soft Cell crossed their paths, and profiles the extraordinary and strange characters who were at their hearts.