RIP Kevin Ayers
16th August 1944 – 18th February 2013
English singer-songwriter with the band Soft Machine, a major influential force in the English psychedelic movement of the 1960s and the underground music scene then and thereafter. Soft Machine, along with Pink Floyd and others, played at International Times inaugural launch party in 1966.
From Wikipedia:
Ayers was a founding member of the pioneering psychedelic band Soft Machine in the late 1960s, and was closely associated with the Canterbury scene.[2] He recorded a series of albums as a solo artist and over the years worked with Brian Eno, Syd Barrett, 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 was The Unfairground, which was recorded in New York City, Tucson, and London in 2006.[3]
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