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  1. 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.

  2. 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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  3. 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.

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    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).

  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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.