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Soft Machine
Soft Machine
English rock band
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Mike Ratledge
Mike Ratledge
British musician
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Steve Hillage
Steve Hillage
British guitarist
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Daevid Allen
Daevid Allen
Australian musician
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Robert Wyatt
Robert Wyatt
English recording artist; musician, songwriter, singer
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Pierre Moerlen
Pierre Moerlen
French musician
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Hugh Hopper
Hugh Hopper
English bass guitarist
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Lady June
Lady June
Poet, singer (1931-1999)
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Didier Malherbe
Didier Malherbe
French saxophonist
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Syd Barrett
Syd Barrett
English musician, co-founder of Pink Floyd (1946-2006)
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The Wilde Flowers
The Wilde Flowers
British band
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Gong
Gong
French-British progressive/psychedelic rock band
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Bridget St John
Bridget St John
British singer-songwriter
13
Mike Oldfield
Mike Oldfield
English musician, multi-instrumentalist
14
David Bedford
David Bedford
English composer and musician
15
Andy Summers
Andy Summers
British guitarist
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John Greaves
John Greaves
British musician and composer
17
John Cale
John Cale
Welsh composer, singer-songwriter and record producer
18
Bill MacCormick
Bill MacCormick
British musician
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John G. Perry
John G. Perry
British bassist and singer
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Ollie Halsall
Ollie Halsall
English guitarist and vibraphone player
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Caravan
Caravan
English band from the Canterbury area
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William Murray
William Murray
Scottish drummer, photographer
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Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd
English rock band
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Phil Manzanera
Phil Manzanera
British guitarist
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Elton Dean
Elton Dean
British saxophonist
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Karl Jenkins
Karl Jenkins
Welsh musician and composer
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Khan
Khan
British rock group
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Tom Newman
Tom Newman
British record producer and musician
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Be-Bop Deluxe
Be-Bop Deluxe
English progressive rock band
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Richard Sinclair
Richard Sinclair
British bassist
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Happy Mondays
Happy Mondays
English alternative rock band
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Matching Mole
Matching Mole
band
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Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel
Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel
English rock band
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Roxy Music
Roxy Music
English art rock band formed in 1970
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Mick Taylor
Mick Taylor
British rock musician, former member of The Rolling Stones
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Hawkwind
Hawkwind
English rock band
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Blur
Blur
English alternative rock band
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White Lies
White Lies
English band
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Pierre Moerlen's Gong
Pierre Moerlen's Gong
Instrumental jazz fusion band led by French drummer Pierre Moerlen
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Gorky's Zygotic Mynci
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci
Welsh rock band
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Delivery
Delivery
prog rock band
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Siouxsie and the Banshees
Siouxsie and the Banshees
English rock band
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Henry Cow
Henry Cow
English avant-rock group
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Arctic Monkeys
Arctic Monkeys
English rock band
Kevin Ayers
English singer-songwriter, record producer

Kevin Ayers

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English singer-songwriter, record producer
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Member of, past and present

Kevin Ayers (16 August 1944 – 18 February 2013) was an English singer-songwriter who was active in the English psychedelic music movement. Ayers was a founding member of the psychedelic band Soft Machine in the mid-1960s, and was closely associated with the Canterbury scene. He recorded a series of albums as a solo artist and over the years worked with Brian Eno, Syd Barrett, Bridget St John, John Cale, Elton John, Robert Wyatt, Andy Summers, Mike Oldfield, Nico and Ollie Halsall, among others. After living for many years in Deià, Majorca, he returned to the United Kingdom in the mid-1990s before moving to the south of France. His last album, The Unfairground, was released in 2007. The British rock journalist Nick Kent wrote: "Kevin Ayers and Syd Barrett were the two most important people in British pop music. Everything that came after came from them."