Marc Almond (born Peter Mark Sinclair Almond on 9 July, 1957 in Southport, Lancashire, England) is a popular English singer, songwriter and recording artist, who originally found fame as half of the seminal synthpop/New Wave duo Soft Cell. Childhood and early life Tainted Life (1999) autobography chapters 1-4 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 grandparents 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 grandparents 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.

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