Mike Ratledge, keyboardist and founding member of the English rock band Soft Machine, has died at the age of 81. The musician’s death was confirmed by former bandmate and current Soft Machine ...

Mike Ratledge, keyboardist and founding member of the English rock band Soft Machine, has died. He was 81. Soft Machine’s guitarist John Etheridge confirmed his former bandmate’s death in a ...

Later members have included Hugh Hopper ... Recorded in Paris were among the last for Soft Machine as a working band. The Soft Machine name was used for the 1981 record Land of Cockayne with ...

And so, with Etheridge, Babbington and Marshall not just band alum but actually players who worked together in Soft Machine for roughly sixteen months, from 1975 through '76, the current lineup not ...

If this shifting array of band names and members sounds confusing, it is. “We picked the name Soft Machine Legacy, which was really unnecessary because we could legitimately have been (billed as ...

In addition to being the longest remaining original member of Soft Machine—sticking around from their 1966 self-titled debut to 1976’s Softs—Ratledge was also arguably the band’s most ...

The band name says it all. Three members of this quartet worked at different times in the original Soft Machine whilst the fourth has assumed the mantle once taken by the late and lamented musician, ...

Mike Ratledge, keyboardist and founding member of Soft Machine, has died ... friends he discovered jazz music and played piano in a band called the Daevid Allen Trio. He attended University ...

Daevid Allen, a founding member of the influential jazz outfit ... bassist Kevin Ayers and organist Mike Rutledge. After forming Soft Machine in 1966, the band recorded one single — “Love ...

He was a founder member of Soft Machine ... he sought Burroughs’ approval when they named the new band after his novel The Soft Machine. “Can’t see why not!” was the novelist’s reply.

He was 81. The news came via current Soft Machine guitarist John Etheridge, who joined the band in 1975, near the end of Ratledge’s time in it. “Incredibly sad news that my great friend and ...