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“I’ve been very lucky throughout my life as a player." Soft Machine drummer John Marshall remembered
Prog writer Sid Smith pays tribute to former Soft Machine drummer John Marshall, who died over the weekend, aged 82
"There’ll always be questions like, ‘What’s going on with Mike Ratledge?’ Or a question about Robert Wyatt." Soft Machine on life in the new millennium
In 2015 Soft Machine dropped the 'legacy' tag and threw themselves headlong into being the Canterbury legends, Hidden Details was their first album under the new/old monicker
Soft Machine: less a band and more an organism which is constantly evolving
Soft Machine's Other Doors review: The fêted fusionists come knocking again with 12th studio album.
“Pop music didn’t offer enough open space for improvisation… there was no way we were going to play a tune the same way twice”: How Soft Machine pioneered the Canterbury scene
By the time debut album The Soft Machine was released in 1968, they’d already split up - but its impact changed everything
The ultimate Canterbury Scene playlist
Enter a world of Caravan, Soft Machine, Egg, Gilgamesh, Matching Mole and more
Pink Floyd grace the cover of the new issue of Prog, which is on sale now!
Plus BJH, Soft Machine, Voyager, The Fierce & The Dead, Arjen Lucassen, Enslaved, Mystery, Godsticks and more...
The guy who everyone thought was 'Meghan in disguise' at the Coronation was a former member of Soft Machine
"I look this way all the time," says former Soft Machine musician Karl Jenkins after strange Coronation mix-up
The Canterbury scene albums you should definitely own
From the sublime to the ridiculous, from jaunty tunes to head-spinning jazz rock, the Canterbury scene is a prog-head’s Utopia
