Mike Ratledge, keyboard player who co-founded Soft Machine, luminaries of the ‘Canterbury Scene’
Mike Ratledge, who has died aged 81, was the keyboard player whose sound was at the heart of Soft Machine, the Canterbury ...
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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 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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When William Burroughs gave Daevid Allen permission to call his band The Soft Machine
Surrealist, satirist and beat generation figure William Burroughs has been an inspirational source of ideas for musicians ...
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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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William S. Burroughs: Rare and Unseen Artworks On Show in London
William S. Burroughs, the maverick writer, artist, and cultural provocateur whose work defied convention, reshaping the ...
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Queer review: Daniel Craig gives career-best turn in Luca Guadagnino's thorny William S. Burroughs adaptation
Daniel Craig slips out of James Bond to give a haunting performance as Burroughs avatar William Lee in Queer. It is now streaming on Mubi. Director Luca Guadagnino seems to have reached a phase in ...
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McDonald's Soft Serve Machines Were Just at the Center of a Major Legal Battle
The faulty machines have sparked endless memes, become a topic in a United States Presidential campaign, and even inspired an entire website dedicated to helping customers find stores with soft serve ...
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John Etheridge’s arrival adds a harder, defined edge to the band’s 1976 album
The former Darryl Way’s Wolf and Global Village Trucking Company member’s rockier thrust gives Soft Machine a harder, defined edge. Newly remastered for vinyl, the band basks in Softs’ pristine sound, ...
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THE BURROUGHS TRAIL.; EVIDENCE SUSTAINING THE PLEA OF INSANITY.
TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. Full text is unavailable for this digitized archive article. Subscribers may view the full text of this article in ...
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Rage Against the Machine Celebrate Leonard Peltier’s Freedom
Rage Against the Machine celebrated release from prison of Indigenous rights activist Leonard Peltier, who was granted clemency by Joseph Biden in the final minutes of his presidency. Peltier ...