Soft Machine are a British rock band from Canterbury formed in mid-1966 by Mike Ratledge (keyboards, 1966–1976), Robert Wyatt (drums, vocals, 1966–1971), Kevin Ayers (bass, guitar, vocals, 1966–1968) and Daevid Allen (guitar, backing vocals, bass 1966–1967). As a central band of the Canterbury scene, the group became one of the first British psychedelic acts and later moved into progressive rock and jazz fusion. Their varying line-ups have included former members such as Andy Summers (guitar, 1968), Hugh Hopper (bass, 1968–1973), Elton Dean (saxophone 1969–1972), John Marshall (drums, 1972–1978, 1980–1981, 1984, 2015–2023), Karl Jenkins (keyboards, saxophone, 1972–1978, 1980–1981, 1984), Roy Babbington (bass, 1973–1976, 2015–2020) and Allan Holdsworth (guitar, 1973–1975), and currently consists of John Etheridge (guitar, 1975–1978, 1984 and since 2015), Theo Travis (saxophone, flutes, keyboards since 2015), Fred Thelonious Baker (bass since 2020), and Asaf Sirkis (drums since 2023). More information...
According to PR-model, softmachine.org is ranked 771,758th in multilingual Wikipedia, in particular this website is ranked 512,661st in English Wikipedia.
The website is placed before jaarverslag.info and after rebirthdemocracy.com in the BestRef global ranking of the most important sources of Wikipedia.
