‘80s pop singer severely hurt

Singer Marc Almond, whose 1980s band Soft Cell scored a huge hit with their version of “Tainted Love,” was hospitalized after suffering severe head injuries in a road crash, police said.

Almond, 47, was riding as a passenger on a motorcycle when it collided with a car in central London on Sunday afternoon, a spokesman for the City of London Police said. He was thrown from the bike, the spokesman said.

Almond was in stable condition at the Royal London Hospital, the facility’s governing body said in a statement Monday. The motorcycle’s driver, who wasn’t immediately identified, was also seriously injured, police said.