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Robert Wyatt (born Robert Wyatt-Ellidge, 28 January 1945 [3] [4]) is an English retired musician.A founding member of the influential Canterbury scene bands Soft Machine and Matching Mole, [5] he was initially a kit drummer and singer before becoming paraplegic following an accidental fall from a window in 1973, which led him to abandon band work, explore other instruments, and begin a 40-year ...
Rock Bottom is the second solo album by former Soft Machine drummer Robert Wyatt.It was released on 26 July 1974 by Virgin Records.The album was produced by Pink Floyd's drummer Nick Mason, and was recorded following a 1973 accident which left Wyatt a paraplegic.
"Shipbuilding" is a song with lyrics by Elvis Costello and music by Clive Langer. [1] Written during the Falklands War of 1982, Costello's lyrics highlight the irony of the war bringing back prosperity to the traditional shipbuilding areas of Clydeside, Merseyside (Cammell Laird), North East England and Belfast (Harland and Wolff) [2] to build new ships to replace those being sunk in the war ...
Comicopera is the final album by Robert Wyatt, released on 8 October 2007 and available on both CD and double vinyl formats. The vinyl's fourth side contains no music and has a poem etched into its surface.
Shleep is the seventh album by Canterbury scene and progressive rock veteran and musician Robert Wyatt, released in 1997. The album brought together a diverse range of musicians from a range of genres. After Wyatt's largely one-man recordings of the 1980s, Shleep marked a return to featuring other artistes as on his 1970s albums.
The recording ended up as the B-side of Wyatt's 1981 single Stalin Wasn't Stallin', a cover of a Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet song about the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. The lyrics of which praise the Soviet people and especially Joseph Stalin (the Soviet leader of the time and namesake of the city of Stalingrad , where the battle happened ...
Old Rottenhat is the fourth studio album by Robert Wyatt.It was released in November 1985, and in 1993 it was reissued in its entirety as part of the CD Mid-Eighties.The album was produced and performed solo by Wyatt, and is dedicated to Michael Bettaney, a UK MI5 intelligence officer who in 1984 was convicted for acting as an agent-in-place for the Soviet Union.
Dondestan is the fifth studio album by Robert Wyatt, released in 1991 on Rough Trade Records. The title is a phonetic rendition of the Spanish expression "Donde están", i.e. The title is a phonetic rendition of the Spanish expression "Donde están", i.e.