When William Burroughs gave Daevid Allen permission to call his band The Soft Machine
A key moment in the Canterbury band’s history came when the future Gong mastermind made contact with his former collaborator ...
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“If I were you, I’d get a haircut and disappear”: When author William Burroughs gave Daevid Allen permission to call his band The Soft Machine
A key moment in the Canterbury band’s history came when the future Gong mastermind made contact with his former collaborator ...
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Soft Machine Co-Founder Mike Ratledge Has Died
Mike Ratledge — co-founding keyboardist for the influential, proggy psych-rock band from Canterbury, Soft Machine — has died.
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Soft Machine Co-Founder Mike Ratledge Dead At 81
Mike Ratledge, one of the founding members of the legendary British psych-rock band Soft Machine, has died. As Louder points out, Soft Machine guitarist John Etheridge shared the news in a Facebook ...
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Mike Ratledge, keyboard player who co-founded Soft Machine, luminaries of the ‘Canterbury Scene’
Ratledge on stage with Hugh Hopper in the early 1970s Credit: Pictorial Press Ltd/Alamy In 1966 Ratledge formed Soft Machine – named after the William Burroughs novel – with Kevin Ayers and ...
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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 ...
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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 ...