A key moment in the Canterbury band’s history came when the future Gong mastermind made contact with his former collaborator ...

Mike Ratledge, who has died aged 81, was the keyboard player whose sound was at the heart of Soft Machine, the Canterbury ...

Soft Machine founding member and keyboard player Mike Ratledge died on Wednesday, February 5 after a brief illness, according ...

Soft Machine founding member Mike Ratledge dead at 81 following a brief illness, who formed the group in 1966 before ...

Mike Ratledge — co-founding keyboardist for the influential, proggy psych-rock band from Canterbury, Soft Machine — has died.

Mike Ratledge, keyboardist and founding member of Soft Machine, has died. He was 81 years old. The news was confirmed by ...

Following their last sensational sellout show at Exeter Phoenix, Soft Machine have embarked on a highly successful tour of Canada and the States and remain in huge demand throughout the UK and Europe.

Mike Ratledge, one of the founding members and keyboard player of the British psych-rock band Soft Machine, has died aged 81 ...

“Mike was the backbone of Soft Machine in the early years and a man ... his time in the music industry as a teenager when he Daevid Allen and joined his band the Daevid Allen Trio (as per ...

Mike was the backbone of Soft Machine in the early years and a man with an absolutely incisive mind,” wrote Soft Machine's ...

Soft Machine founding member and keyboard player ... Just a few years later, in 1961, the boys met Australian poet and musician Daevid Allen, who broadened their horizons by sharing his infectious ...

Upon meeting Daevid Allen as a teenager ... 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 ...