| Torch | |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Soft Cell |
| B-Side: | Insecure Me |
| Genre: | |
| Label: | Some Bizzare |
| Producer: | Mike Thorne |
| Prev Title: | Say Hello, Wave Goodbye |
| Prev Year: | 1982 |
| Next Title: | What! |
| Next Year: | 1982 |
"Torch" is a song by English synth-pop duo Soft Cell. It was released as a single in 1982, and in mid-June peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart,[1] ranking 45 for the year. It also reached number 31 on the Hot Dance Club Play chart, number 12 in the Netherlands[2] and number 6 in the Flemish Ultratop 50[3]
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 New York the year previously.[4]
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.[5]
"Torch" ranked 49 in the New Musical Express critics' list of the year's 50 best singles.[6]