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Marc Almond (born Peter Mark Sinclair Almond on 9 July, 1957 in Southport, Lancashire, (now in the county of Merseyside, England) is a popular English people|English singer, songwriter and recording artist, who originally found fame as half of the seminal synthpop/New Wave music|New Wave duo Soft Cell.
Childhood and early life <ref>''Tainted Life'' (1999) autobography chapters 1-4</ref>
Marc Almond was born on 9th July 1957 in Southport on the Lancashire coast between Liverpool and Blackpool, the son of Sandra Mary Almond (formerly Dieson) and Peter John Sinclair Almond, Second Lieutenant in the King's Liverpool Regiment. He was brought up at his grandparent's house in Birkdale with his younger sister Julia, and as a child suffered from Bronchitis and asthma. At the age of 4 they left their grandparent's house and moved to Starbeck on the edge of Harrogate, North Yorkshire but then two years later returned to Southport and then onto Horsforth near Leeds. Due to a car crash at the age of 14, he is nearly completely deaf in his left ear.

He just managed to scrape into Aireborough Grammar School in nearby Yeadon. By this time his father was suffering from alcoholism, and Almond found solace in music, listening to British radio pioneer John Peel. The first album he purchased was the soundtrack of the stage musical ''Hair (musical)|Hair'' and the first single ''Green Manal... read all