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Soft Machine Co-Founder Mike Ratledge Dead at 81
Mike Ratledge, keyboardist and founding member of Soft Machine, has died. He was 81 years old. The news was confirmed by Ratledge’s former bandmate and current Soft Machine guitarist John ...
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Soft Machine
Soft Machine was formed in 1966 by Robert Wyatt, Mike Ratledge, Kevin Ayers and Daevid Allen ... who had just released the first album, to discuss possible live dates by the band to promote it. With ...
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Soft Machine co-founder Mike Ratledge has died, aged 81
Mike Ratledge, one of the founding members of Soft Machine, has died aged 81. The news of his passing was shared by bandmate John Etheridge – guitarist in the British psych-rock band – in a ...
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Mike Ratledge, Keyboardist in Soft Machine, Dies at 81
Soft Machine founding member and keyboard player Mike Ratledge died on Wednesday, February 5, after a brief illness, according to his former bandmate and guitarist John Etheridge. “Mike was the ...
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Soft Machine: Third through Seven Remasters
Ratledge's two contributions—"Slightly All ... and a medley from Volume Two—pieces that were all standard parts of the Soft Machine repertoire at the time. As other archival live recordings released ...
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Mike Ratledge, keyboard player who co-founded Soft Machine, luminaries of the ‘Canterbury Scene’
Soft Machine in 1967, l-r: Kevin Ayers, Robert Wyatt, Mike Ratledge and Daevid Allen - BIPS/Getty Images ...
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Founding member of influential rock band dies at 81: ‘Another immortal gone’
Ratledge founded Soft Machine alongside Robert Wyatt (drummer ... show at 89 Popular New England ’80s band reunites for first live show in 33 years Chiptune band goes from ‘dumpster fire ...
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Kevin Ayers, Soft Machine Singer and Bassist, Dead at 68
Kevin Ayers, best known as a founding member of Soft Machine, has died in France ... Daevid Allen, Mike Ratledge and Larry Nowlin (though Nowlin would leave soon after), naming the after William ...
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Soft Machine Co-Founder Mike Ratledge Dead At 81
By 1966, he formed Soft Machine with Allen plus Robert Wyatt and Kevin Ayers. The lineup would change a lot over the years, but Ratledge remained the band’s longest-tenured member until his ...
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Soft Machine’s Mike Ratledge Dead at 81
While Ratledge eventually left Soft Machine, Etheridge continued to stay ... the man who left the live music business almost 5 decades ago, leaving an eternal legacy of a true legend.
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Mike Ratledge, Soft Machine Keyboardist and Co-Founder, Dead at 81
Mike Ratledge, the keyboardist and a co-founder of English rock band Soft Machine, has died, the band’s guitarist John Etheridge confirmed. He was 81 years old. “Incredibly sad news that my ...