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Instrument (s) Keyboards, flute. Years active. 1960s–1990s. Labels. ABC Probe, Columbia, Harvest. Michael Roland Ratledge (born 6 May 1943) is a British musician. A part of the Canterbury scene, he was a founding member of Soft Machine. He was the last founding member to leave the group, doing so in 1976.
Mike Ratledge: Canterbury Scene Icon. 1,752 likes · 33 talking about this. This page is dedicated to Mike Ratledge, the legendary keyboard player, composer, founding member of
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Sep 8, 2023 · Plunging into Soft Machine has never been for the faint-hearted. William Burroughs' 1961 novel from which Daevid Allen, Kevin Ayers, Robert Wyatt and Mike Ratledge took their collective name in 1966, was famed for its ‘cut-up technique’ whereby sentences and paragraphs were shredded and then reassembled to produce startling juxtapositions and unsettling literary images.
Mike Ratledge's fuzz organ in Soft Machine was a defining element of the late-'60s/early-'70s Canterbury scene. Read Full Biography
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Michael Ronald Ratledge was born in 1943. He started learning the piano and musical theory as a child and grew up listening exclusively to classical music. While attending the Simon Langton School in Canterbury, he became friends with Brian Hopper, which resulted in the pair playing piano/clarinet renditions of classical pieces at Mike 's house ...