Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. He took off just as Bundles, their first album for EMI’s Harvest label, came out in 1975, adding insult to injury. Fortunately, he ...

First, let's get one thing out of the way. Facelift, another in Voiceprint's ongoing series of live Soft Machine performances, comes from an audience recording by bassist Hugh Hopper's brother Brian.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Soft Machine in 1967, l-r: Kevin Ayers, Robert Wyatt, Mike Ratledge and Daevid Allen - BIPS/Getty Images Mike Ratledge, who has ...

Any notion of a golden age should always be treated with the utmost scepticism, but the more time passes, the clearer it becomes that the decade from 1965 to 1975 witnessed perhaps the last great step ...

Australian maverick Daevid Allen was a key conspirator in the first incarnation of the legendary Soft Machine, who came together in Kent in 1966. But before they could record their debut album, Allen ...