Echoes of Soft Machine


Profile in today's Guardian of Robert Wyatt. He was drummer with Soft Machine until he was fired in 1971. Soft Machine (above) played at the Proms in 1970 when risk taking was still in fashion, and I wrote about them disturbing my sleep here.

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