India, Sept. 12 -- Soft Cell recently released a new single, "The Rainbow Room," from their upcoming final album, Danceteria.
"The Rainbow Room," set in early 80s New York, is described as a stunning atmospheric electronic song paying homage to love, loss and friendship, all wrapped up in an extraordinary moment with vistas to match.
About the semi-autobiographical nature of the song, Marc Almond said in an interview with John Earls at Classic Pop, "I did celebrate my birthday - my 21st or 22nd - at The Rainbow Room in the Rockefeller Center... The story of that view is true, too, I really did think: 'Imagine falling down there' at the time. It was important to mention the Twin Towers, to acknowledge that this song about the future had a ...