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 ...

Mike Ratledge, one of the founding members of Soft Machine, has died aged 81. The news of his passing was shared by bandmate John Etheridge – guitarist in the British psych-rock band – in a ...

Soft Machine founding member and keyboard player Mike Ratledge died on Wednesday, February 5, after a brief illness, according to his former bandmate and guitarist John Etheridge. “Mike was the ...

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 ...

Mike Ratledge, founding keyboardist for influential English group Soft Machine, died on Wednesday following a brief illness. He was 81. The news came via current Soft Machine guitarist John ...

Singer, bassist and songwriter Jack Bruce passed away on October 25, 2014. aged 71, leaving behind a CV that included stints with the Graham Bond Organisation, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Cream ...

The Allan Holdsworth Solo Album Collection Holdsworth ... and the British rock band Soft Machine. In 1976, Holdsworth had the first of many confrontations with the official music business ...

paid little attention to Soft Machine during the 1960s and early 1970s — in large part because of its absence of guitar. That changed in 1973 when English six-string innovator Allan Holdsworth ...

“I was personally very keen to get this album done because I really felt it was our last chance to have John Marshall in the studio,” he says, speaking about the drummer he first worked with in Soft ...

Allan Holdsworth was a progressive and jazz fusion guitarist ... During the 1970s and 1980s, Holdsworth was an essential figure in creating jazz-rock fusion. His work with Soft Machine, Gong, and UK ...