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 ...
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"He was the backbone of Soft Machine." Founding member and keyboard player Mike Ratledge dead at 81
Credit: Getty Images/Gijsbert Hanekroot/Redferns Soft Machine founding member and keyboard player Mike Ratledge has died aged ...
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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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“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 ...
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 ...
Ninja’s new ice cream machine delivers soft serve and hard scoops
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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.
McDonald's Soft Serve Machines Were Just at the Center of a Major Legal Battle
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Soft Machine Co-Founder Mike Ratledge Dead At 81
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 the band’s longest-tenured member until his ...
Soft Machine founding member Mike Ratledge dead at 81
Soft Machine founding member Mike Ratledge dead at 81 following a brief illness, who formed the group in 1966 before ...
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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 Etheridge confirmed. He was 81 years old. “Incredibly sad news that my ...