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Kevin Ayers
Kevin Ayers (16 August 1944 – 18 February 2013) was an English singer-songwriter and a major influential force in the English psychedelic movement. Ayers was a founding member of the pioneering psychedelic band Soft Machine in the mid-1960s, and was closely associated with the Canterbury scene. He recorded a series of albums as a solo artist and over the years worked with Brian Eno, Syd Barrett, John Cale, Elton John, Robert Wyatt, Andy Summers, Mike Oldfield, Nico and Ollie Halsall, among others. After living for many years in Deià, Majorca, he returned to the United Kingdom in the mid-1990s before moving to the south of France. His last album was The Unfairground, recorded in New York City, Tucson, and London in 2006. The British rock journalist Nick Kent wrote: "Kevin Ayers and Syd Barrett were the two most important people in British pop music. Everything that came after came from them."
Biography
Early life
Ayers was born in Herne Bay, Kent, the son of BBC producer Rowan Ayers. Following his parents' divorce and his mother's subsequent marriage to a British civil servant, Ayers spent most of his childhood in Malaya. The tropical atmosphere and unpressured lifestyle had an impact, and one of the frustrating and endearing aspects of Ayers' career is that every time he seemed on the point of success, he would take off for some sunny spot where good wine and food were easily found.
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Famous quotes by Kevin Ayers:
"We had literary references, so we knew what we were talking about. We could quote things, talk about books we'd read; you can say something, you don't have to explain it."
"England is so defined, the class system, your education. I think what was unique about the Canterbury scene."
"These were all middle-class kids from literary backgrounds, joining this sort of train going by, this pop train, jumping on. Whereas the rest of the rock scene, you'll find that there's mostly working-class people."
"Soft Machine were going more in the direction of fusion jazz and I didn't like that."
"That was something. As opposed to nothing."
"I think that the basic philosophy was very good. It was just be nice to each other, and don't step on other people's toes and infringe on their freedom."
"The music we made then was so amateurish, compared to the rest of mainstream pop or rock and roll. But what differentiated us from what everybody else was doing in the business was the fact that you could tell that these people came from different reference areas."
Kevin Ayers
ALBUMS
- Yes We Have No Mañanas, so Get Your Mañanas Today released: 2009
- Hyde Park Free Concert 1970 released: 2008
- The Unfairground released: 2007
- Whatevershebringswesing released: 2003
- Bananamour released: 2003
- Joy of a Toy released: 2003
- Odd Ditties released: 2002
- The Best of Kevin Ayers released: 2000
- Deià...Vu released: 1998
- Kevin Ayers: The BBC Sessions 1970-1976 (2/2) released: 1996
- Singing the Bruise released: 1996
- First Show in the Appearance Business released: 1996
- Still Life With Guitar released: 1992
- June 1, 1974 released: 1990
- Falling Up released: 1988
- As Close As You Think released: 1986
- Diamond Jack and the Queen of Pain released: 1983
- The Kevin Ayers Collection released: 1983
- That's What You Get Babe released: 1980
- Rainbow Takeaway released: 1978
- Sweet Deceiver released: 1975
- The Confessions of Dr. Dream and Other Stories released: 1974
- Live in Concert: BBC Radio One released: 1972
- Just for Old Times Sake released:
Yes We Have No Mañanas, so Get Your Mañanas Today
Released 2009- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Star
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Mr. Cool
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen The Owl
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Love's Gonna Turn You Round
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Falling in Love Again
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Help Me
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Ballad of Mr. Snake
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Everyone Knows the Song
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Yes I Do
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Blue
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Mr. Cool
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Love's Gonna Turn You Round
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Star
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Ballad of Mr. Snake
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Shouting in a Bucket Blues
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Star
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Mr. Cool
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Ballad of Mr. Snake
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Blue
Hyde Park Free Concert 1970
Released 2008- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Clarence In Wonderland
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Red Green and You Blue
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen May I?
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Hat Song
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Did It Again
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Why Are We Sleeping
The Unfairground
Released 2007- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Only Heaven Knows
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Cold Shoulder
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Walk on Water
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Friends and Strangers
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Shine a Light
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Wide Awake
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Baby Come Home
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Brainstorm
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Unfairground
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Run Run Run
Whatevershebringswesing
Released 2003- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen There Is Loving/Among Us/There Is Loving
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Margaret
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Oh My
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Song From the Bottom of a Well
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Whatevershebringswesing
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Stranger in Blue Suede Shoes
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Champagne Cowboy Blues
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Lullaby
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Stars
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Don't Sing No More Sad Songs
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Fake Mexican Tourist Blues
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Stranger in Blue Suede Shoes (Early mix)
Bananamour
Released 2003- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Don't Let It Get You Down
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Shouting in a Bucket Blues
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen When Your Parents Go to Sleep
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Interview
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen International Anthem
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Decadence
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Oh! Wot a Dream
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Hymn
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Beware of the Dog
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Connie on a Rubber Band
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Decadence (Early mix)
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Take Me to Tahiti
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Caribbean Moon
Joy of a Toy
Released 2003- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Joy of a Toy Continued
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Town Feeling
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen The Clarietta Rag
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Girl on a Swing
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Song for Insane Times
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Stop This Train (Again Doing It)
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Eleanor's Cake (Which Ate Her)
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen The Lady Rachel
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Oleh Oleh Bandu Bandong
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen All This Crazy Gift of Time
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Religious Experience (Singing a Song in the Morning)
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen The Lady Rachel (extended First mix)
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Soon Soon Soon
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Religious Experience (Singing a Song in the Morning)
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen The Lady Rachel (single version)
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Singing a Song in the Morning (single version)
Odd Ditties
Released 2002- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Soon, Soon, Soon
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Singing a Song in the Morning
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Gemini Child
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Puis-Je?
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Butterfly Dance
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Stars
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Stranger in Blue Suede Shoes
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Jolie Madame
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Lady Rachel
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Connie on a Rubber Band
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Fake Mexican Tourist Blues
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Don't Sing No More Sad Songs
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Take Me to Tahiti
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Caribbean Moon
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Star
The Best of Kevin Ayers
Released 2000- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Butterfly Dance
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Girl on a Swing
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Soon Soon Soon
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Sweet Deceiver
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Caribbean Moon
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Irreversible Neural Damage
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Gemini Child
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen The Lady Rachel
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Stranger in Blue Suede Shoes
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen There Is Loving, Among Us, There Is Loving
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen The Clarietta Rag
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Rheinhardt & Geraldine / Colores Para Dolores
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Stars
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Hat Song
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Singing a Song in the Morning
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Ballad of a Salesman Who Sold Himself
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Clarence in Wonderland
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Diminished but Not Finished
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Song From the Bottom of a Well
Deià...Vu
Released 1998- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Champagne and Valium
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Thank God for a Sense of Humor
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Take It Easy
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Stop Playing With My Heart (You Are a Big Girl)
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen My Speeding Heart
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Lay Lady Lay
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Stop Playing With My Heart II
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Be Aware of the Dog
Kevin Ayers: The BBC Sessions 1970-1976 (2/2)
Released 1996- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Interview
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Oh! Wot a Dream
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Shouting in a Bucket Blues
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Another Whimsical Song
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Lady Rachel
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Stop This Train
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Didn't Feel Lonely Till I Thought of You
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Stranger in Blue Suede Shoes
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Mr. Cool
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Love's Gonna Turn You Around
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Star
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Ballad of Mr. Snake
Singing the Bruise
Released 1996- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Why Are We Sleeping ?
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen You Say You Like My Hat
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Gemini Chile
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Lady Rachel
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Derby Day
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen The Interview
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen We Did It Again
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Oyster and the Flying Fish
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Butterfly Dance
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Whatevershebringswesing
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Falling in Love Again
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Queen Thing
First Show in the Appearance Business
Released 1996- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Interview
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen O Wot a Dream
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Shouting in a Bucket Blues
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Another Whimsical Song
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Lady Rachel
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Stop This Train
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Didn't Feel Lonely Till I Thought of You
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Mr. Cool
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Love's Gonna Turn You Round
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Star
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Ballad of Mr. Snake
Still Life With Guitar
Released 1992- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Feeling This Way
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Something in Between
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Thank You Very Much
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen There Goes Johnny
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Ghost Train
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen I Don't Depend on You
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen When Your Parents Go to Sleep
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen M-16
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Don't Blame Them
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Irene Goodnight
June 1, 1974
Released 1990- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Driving Me Backwards
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Baby's on Fire
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Heartbreak Hotel
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen The End
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen May I?
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Standing in a Bucket Blues
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Stranger in Blue Suede Shoes
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Everybody's Sometime and Some People's All the Time Blues
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Two Goes Into Four
Falling Up
Released 1988- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Saturday Night (In Deya)
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Flying Start
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen The Best We Have
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Another Rolling Stone
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Do You Believe ?
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen That's What We Did
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Night Fighters
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Am I Really Marcel?
As Close As You Think
Released 1986- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Steppin' Out
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Fool After Midnight
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Wish I Could Fall
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Only Heaven Knows
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Too Old to Die Young
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen The Howlin' Man
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Never My Baby
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Budget Tours, Part One
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Budget Tours, Part Two
Diamond Jack and the Queen of Pain
Released 1983- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Madame Butterfly
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Lay Lady Lay
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Who's Still Crazy
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen You Keep Me Hangin' On
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen You Are a Big Girl
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Steppin' Out
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen My Speeding Heart
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Howling Man
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Give a Little Bit
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Champagne and Valium
The Kevin Ayers Collection
Released 1983- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen The Lady Rachel
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen May I
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Puis-Je?
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Stranger in Blue Suede Shoes
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Caribbean Moon
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Shouting in a Bucket Blues
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen After the Show
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Didn't Feel Lonely Till I Thought of You
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Once Upon an Ocean
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen City Waltz
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Blue
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Star
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Blaming It All on Love
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Strange Song
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Miss Hanaga
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Money, Money, Money
That's What You Get Babe
Released 1980- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen That's What You Get
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Where Do I Go From Here
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen You Never Outrun Your Heart
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Given and Taken
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Idiots
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Super Salesman
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Money, Money, Money
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Miss Hanaga
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen I'm So Tired
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Where Do the Stars End
Rainbow Takeaway
Released 1978- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Blaming It All on Love
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Ballard of a Salesman Who Sold Himself
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen A View From the Mountain
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Rainbow Takeaway
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Waltz for You
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Beware of the Dog II
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Strange Song
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Goodnight Goodnight
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Hat Song
Sweet Deceiver
Released 1975- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Observations
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Guru Banana
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen City Waltz
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Toujours La Voyage
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Sweet Deceiver
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Diminished But Not Finished
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Circular Letter
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Once Upon an Ocean
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Farewell Again (Another Dawn)
The Confessions of Dr. Dream and Other Stories
Released 1974- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Day by Day
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen See You Later
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Didn't Feel Lonely Till I Thought of You
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Everybody's Sometime and Some People's All the Time Blues
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen It Begins With a Blessing/Once I Awakened/But It Ends With a Curse
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Ballbearing Blues
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen The Confessions of Doctor Dream: A. Irreversible Neural Damage
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen The Confessions of Doctor Dream: B. Invitation
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen The Confessions of Doctor Dream: C. The One Chance Dance
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen The Confessions of Doctor Dream: D. Doctor Dream Theme
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Two Goes Into Four
Live in Concert: BBC Radio One
Released 1972- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Lady Rachael
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen May I?
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Clarence in Wonderland
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Whatevershebringswesing
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen There Is Loving
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Margaret
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Colores Para Delores
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Crazy Gift of Time
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Why Are We Sleeping?
Just for Old Times Sake
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Hat Song
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Stop This Train
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Clarence in Wonderland
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Why Are We Sleeping?
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Derby Day
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen The Interview
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen We Did It Again Inc. “Murder in the Air”
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Lunatics Lament
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Lady Rachel
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Stop This Train (Again Doing It)
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen A Whimsical Song
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Oh! Wot a Dream
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Shouting in a Bucket Blues
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen The Interview
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Whatevershebringswesing
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Stranger in Blue Suede Shoes
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen [unknown]
Born: 1944-08-16
Died: 2013-02-18
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Gemini Child
Spent an awful lot of time making tunes and making rhymes
Things that other people do, yeah
From this heap of words and rhyme
I never really gave much time to something just for you, yeah
Oh gemini child you know I love you
I don't really have to tell you
Cause you know damn well that I do
Anyway it's not so much what I say as
What I do for you girl
So here's a song that I thought of long ago
That really comes from you, yeah
Gemini child, you make life come alive
Suddenly there's so much loving to share with you
And I do gemini child, you make life come alive
Suddenly there's so much loving to share with you
And I do oh gemini child you know I love you
I don't really have to tell you
