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Fifth (the title is Fifth while the front cover shows the number 5), is the fifth studio album by the jazz rock band Soft Machine, released in 1972. In the US the album was identified on cover and label by number ( 5 ).
During 1977, Soft Machine recorded the live album Alive & Well: Recorded in Paris, which was released early the following year. In 1978, Soft machine made one live performance, which was at the Sound & Musik Festival in Dortmund, Germany, on 8 December, with a line-up of Marshall, Jenkins, Cook and Holdsworth.
Soft Machine & Heavy Friends: BBC in Concert 1971: 23 March 1971 1998 Virtually (DVD with footage of this recording included on Grides) 5 December 1967 – 1 June 1971 2003 BBC Radio 1967 – 1971: Various line-ups including Ratledge, Wyatt, Ayers, H. Hopper, Brian Hopper, Dean, Dobson, Charig and Evans 10 June 1969 – 15 November 1971 1990
Soft Machine performing live in 2018. Soft Machine are an English jazz-rock band from Canterbury. Formed in mid-1966, the group originally consisted of drummer and vocalist Robert Wyatt, guitarists Daevid Allen and Larry Nowlin, bassist and vocalist Kevin Ayers, and keyboardist Mike Ratledge. The current lineup of the band features guitarist John Etheridge (1975–1978, 1984 and since 2015 ...
Kevin Ayers (16 August 1944 – 18 February 2013) was an English singer-songwriter who was active in the English psychedelic music movement. Ayers was a founding member of the psychedelic band Soft Machine in the mid-1960s, and was closely associated with the Canterbury scene. [3]
In 1966, together with Kevin Ayers and Mike Ratledge, they formed the band Soft Machine, the name having come from the Burroughs novel The Soft Machine. Ayers and Wyatt had previously played in Wilde Flowers. [5] Following a tour of Europe in August 1967, Allen was refused re-entry to the UK because he had overstayed his visa on a prior visit.
In 2008, he played with Soft Machine Legacy [3] [4] and again replaced Hugh Hopper as their electric bassist in 2009. [5] Soft Machine Legacy changed their name back to just Soft Machine in 2015. On 7 December 2021 Soft Machine issued a press release announcing that Babbington was retiring from the band, and was replaced by Fred Thelonious ...
1968: The Soft Machine (played on one track as a guest musician but also has writing credits on several tracks) 1969: Volume Two (first album as an official band member) 1970: Third; 1971: Fourth; 1972: Fifth; 1973: Six; 2003: Abracadabra (as Soft Works) 2006: Soft Machine Legacy (as Soft Machine Legacy) 2007 Steam (as Soft Machine Legacy)