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Christopher David Allen (13 January 1938 – 13 March 2015), known professionally as Daevid Allen, sometimes credited as Divided Alien, was an Australian musician. He was co-founder of the psychedelic rock groups Soft Machine (in the UK, 1966) and Gong (in France, 1967).
Mar 13, 2015 · Daevid Allen, a founding member of the influential jazz outfit Soft Machine and the driving force behind the prog-rock group Gong, died on Friday following a battle with cancer. He was 77....
Mar 17, 2015 · March 16, 2015. Daevid Allen, an eccentric Australian-born guitarist, singer and poet who was an original member of the psychedelic rock group the Soft Machine and went on to found Gong, an...
Mar 13, 2015 · Music blog Music. This article is more than 9 years old. Daevid Allen: The original anti-establishment hippie remembered. The founder of Gong and Soft Machine was a man who beat his own path,...
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Mar 13, 2015 · March 13, 2015. Daevid Allen, a founding member of the pioneering progressive and psychedelic rock bands Gong and Soft Machine, has died following a battle with cancer. Allen's son, Orlando...
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Apr 20, 2015 · Poet, artist, aspirant musician with a yearning for free jazz as well as being fully conversant in the works of Beat Generation writers and the psychological and intellectual absurdities of Dadaism, Daevid Allen quickly became a pivotal figure in what was later to be called the Canterbury Scene.
Soft Machine (billed as The Soft Machine up to 1969 or 1970) were formed in mid-1966 by Robert Wyatt (drums, vocals), Kevin Ayers (bass, guitar, vocals), Daevid Allen (guitar) and Mike Ratledge (organ). Allen, Wyatt and future bassist Hugh Hopper had first played together in the Daevid Allen Trio in 1963, occasionally accompanied by Ratledge.
