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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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“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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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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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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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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When Steppenwolf Showed Off Their Wild Side
Over a century later the term “Heavy Metal” found its way into literature when it appeared in William S. Burroughs’s 1961 novel, The Soft Machine, in reference to one of its characters ...