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Michael Roland Ratledge (born 6 May 1943) is a British musician. A part of the Canterbury scene, he was a founding member of Soft Machine. He was the last founding member to leave the group, doing so in 1976. [1] Biography and career. Ratledge was born in Maidstone, Kent, the son of a Canterbury secondary modern school headmaster.
But I thought it would be fun to make a little film out of Mike's interview for WMSN radio in 1974. All credit to them for getting Mike to tell a potted history of Soft Machine from the early...
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Sep 8, 2023 · William Burroughs' 1961 novel from which Daevid Allen, Kevin Ayers, Robert Wyatt and Mike Ratledge took their collective name in 1966, was famed for its ‘cut-up technique’ whereby sentences and paragraphs were shredded and then reassembled to produce startling juxtapositions and unsettling literary images.
Soft Machine (billed as the Soft Machine up to 1969 or 1970) were formed in mid-1966 by Mike Ratledge (keyboards), Robert Wyatt (drums, vocals), Kevin Ayers (bass, vocals), Daevid Allen (guitar) and Larry Nowlin (guitar).
Mike Ratledge: Canterbury Scene Icon. 1,760 likes · 7 talking about this. This page is dedicated to Mike Ratledge, the legendary keyboard player, composer, founding member of
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Oct 20, 2019 · John Etheridge discusses democracy, creative and otherwise, in Soft Machine line-ups present and past, his love of Mike Ratledge's compositions and his acous...
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Jan 2, 2015 · Listen to and buy the experimental electronic soundtrack album by Mike Ratledge, a former member of Soft Machine. The album features ARP, Moog, VCS-AKS and Z-80 synthesizers and was exhumed from the BFI vaults.