Rock music world rocked by deaths of nearly 20 legendary performers to start 2025
Jackie Farry, who hosted an MTV show and rubbed shoulders with some legendary rock acts, died on Jan. 12. She was 58. Variety ...
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"Behind those dark glasses and unsmiling visage, he presented an inscrutable presence." Soft Machine's Mike Ratledge remembered...
Prog writer Sid Smith pays tribute to the former Soft Machine founder and keyboard player Mike Ratledge, who sadly died after ...
Founding member of influential rock band dies at 81: ‘Another immortal gone’
Mike Ratledge, keyboardist and founding member of the English rock band Soft Machine, has died. He was 81. Soft Machine’s ...
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 ...
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 ...
Influential ‘60s rock band’s founding member dead at 81
Mike Ratledge, keyboardist and founding member of the English rock band Soft Machine, has died at the age of 81. The musician ...
‘70s rock band’s founding member dead at 81
Mike Ratledge, a founding member of Soft Machine, has died. He was 81. Ratledge reportedly died following a short illness.
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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
But the first time his work was used as a wellspring by a band came in 1966, when his novel The Soft Machine – published five ...
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Soft Machine founding keyboardist Mike Ratledge dead at 81
Mike was the backbone of Soft Machine in the early years and a man with an absolutely incisive mind,” wrote Soft Machine's ...
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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, ...