Edward Ball

As an early member of Television Personalities and as the driving force behind the 80's mod pop group the Times, Edward Ball helped craft some of the more interesting music to come out of England in the post-punk era. The Times eventually expanded into sophsti-pop, synthesizers, and once the '90s hit, dream pop. Ball also branched out into dance music under the name the Love Corporation, shoegaze as Teenage Filmstars, and on his own in the '90s, he helped soundtrack the downside of the ecstasy era with his intensely sad and intimate 1995 album If a Man Ever Loved a Woman. As a...