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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 · If anybody could be said to have defined the spirit of globalist, free-thinking hippiedom, it was Daevid Allen, who has died of cancer aged 77. As a musician, he was best known as a founder...
- Adam Sweeting
Mar 13, 2015 · Daevid Allen: The original anti-establishment hippie remembered. The founder of Gong and Soft Machine was a man who beat his own path, regardless of the bizarre directions in which he found ...
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- Everett True
Mar 13, 2015 · Fri 13 Mar 2015 03.59 EDT. Daevid Allen, the leader of the legendary prog-jazz eccentrics Gong, has died aged 77. The news was confirmed on the Facebook page of Allen’s son, Orlando Monday...
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- Guardian music
Mar 13, 2015 · The influential jazz-rock guitarist and prog-rock pioneer passed away in Australia after a long battle with cancer. He was 77. He was the driving force behind the groups Soft Machine and Gong, and a leading light of the anarchic collective Gong. He was known for his unapologetic style and his collaborations with William S. Burroughs and other artists.
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Mar 17, 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 aggressively...
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.
