www.mtv.com/artists/marc-almond/photos/p10746o4iv9/ The Some Bizarre label chief has long been known as one of the most colourful characters in the music business, at one point introducing a private chapel and confession box in the office for bands to deliver demo tapes. Two of his most influential signings of the 80s, Soft Cell and The The (aka Matt Johnson) both credited him with inspiring them to record ecstasy albums when the drug was still legal in 1981. “‘Soul Mining’ was one of the first Ecstasy albums. Not a lot of people know that,” Matt told Select Magazine in an interview in 1991. “Some Bizzare in the early ‘80s with Soft Cell, Stevo, myself, and do you remember Cindy Esctasy? That was how she got he surname, but that was like ten years ago,” he recalled. Chatting to Skrufff more recently (in 2007) Soft Cell song writer Dave Ball recalling being inspired to make Non Stop Ecstatic Dancing by Stevo when on a New York trip, also in 1981. “I think it was Stevo who first mentioned ecstasy to us,”