"Torch" is a song by English synthpop duo Soft Cell. It was released as a single in 1982, and in mid-June peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart, ranking 45 for the year. It also reached number 31 on the Hot Dance Club Play chart, number 12 in the Netherlands and number 6 in the Flemish Ultratop 50 Singer Marc Almond duets towards the end of the song with Cindy Ecstasy, an American clubgoer the band had met at the after-hours bar Club Berlin in

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the year previously. The single was originally intended to be double A-sided, coupled with the eventual B-side song "Insecure Me"; as such, both songs were included in the band's 2018 singles compilation ''Keychains & Snowstorms: The Singles''. "Torch" ranked 49 in the ''

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'' critics' list of the year's 50 best singles.

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Soft Cell songs 1982 singles 1982 songs Songs written by Marc Almond Songs written by David Ball (electronic musician) Some Bizzare Records singles {{electronic-song-stub