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Mike was the backbone of Soft Machine in the early years and a man with an absolutely incisive mind - a marvellous ...

Ninja Swirl just dropped their anticipated new CREAMI machine. The new release features the option to make delicious soft ...

Prog writer Sid Smith pays tribute to the former Soft Machine founder and keyboard player Mike Ratledge, who sadly died after ...

Although surrounded by classical music, Ratledge went on to carve his own path in the music industry when he helped form the rock band Soft Machine. Besides his time with Soft Machine, Ratledge ...

A key moment in the Canterbury band’s history came when the future Gong mastermind made contact with his former collaborator ...

Soft Machine founding member and keyboard player ... and darkened glasses. Born on May 6, 1943, Michael Roland “Mike” Ratledge learned how to play and appreciate classical music at a young ...

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 — co-founding keyboardist for the influential, proggy psych-rock band from Canterbury, Soft Machine — has died. He was 81. As Louder reports, the news was confirmed by former ...

Aside from Soft Machine, the scene included the likes of ... born 28 miles down the road from Canterbury in Maidstone on May 6 1943 into a studious and musical family; his headmaster father ...