• Adiemus
• Alan Holdsworth
• Alan Skidmore
• Alan Wakeman
• Alexander Trocchi
• All About Jazz
• Allan Holdsworth
• Allmusic
• AMM (group)
• Andy Summers
• Arts Lab
• Barney Bubbles
• Barry Miles
• Bass guitar
• Better Books
• BIT (infoshop)
• Bob Cobbing
• Brand X
• Brian Hopper
• Brighton Voice
• Bundles (album)
• Canterbury
• Canterbury scene
• Canterbury Scene
• Canterbury sound
• Caravan (band)
• Carol Barratt
• Caroline Coon
• Columbia Records
• Comicopera
• Compendium Books
• Counterculture
• Craig Sams
• Cuckooland
• Cuneiform Records
• Côte d'Azur
• Daevid Allen
• Dantalian's Chariot
• Dave Lynch
• Dave MacRae
• Delivery (band)
• Demo (music)
• Dick Morrissey
• Dondestan
• Double bass
• Duggie Fields
• Edgar Broughton Band
• Elton Dean
• EMI
• English underground
• Eps (album)
• Fairport Convention
• Family (band)
• Felix Dennis
• Fifth (album)
• Fourth (album)
• Freak scene
• French Riviera
• Friends (magazine)
• Games for May
• Gandalf's Garden
• Gay News
• Germaine Greer
• Giorgio Gomelsky
• Gong (band)
• Granny Takes a Trip
• Grapefruit (band)
• Greg Sams
• Harvest Records
• Hawkwind
• Heathcote Williams
• Hendrix
• Hip hop
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• Hugh Hopper
• I'm a Believer
• Ian Carr
• Indica Gallery
• International Times
• Isotope (band)
• Jack Bruce
• James Haynes
• Jazz fusion
• Jazz-rock
• Jeff Nuttall
• Jimi Hendrix
• Jimmy Hastings
• Joe Boyd
• John Etheridge
• John Marshall
• John Peel
• Jon Hiseman
• Joy of a Toy (song)
• Karl Jenkins
• Kevin Ayers
• Larry Nowlin
• Leukemia
• Live at the Paradiso
• London Free School
• Lyn Dobson
• Mahavishnu Orchestra
• Marc Charig
• Mark Boyle
• Mark Charig
• Martin Sharp
• Matching Mole
• Melody Maker
• Memories of You
• Michael Horovitz
• Mick Farren
• Mike Lesser
• Mike Ratledge
• Mr. Freedom (London)
• Music genre
• National Health
• Niall McDevitt
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• Nick Evans
• Nothing Can Stop Us
• Nucleus (band)
• Nuit Psychédélique
• Nuits psychédéliques
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• Old Rottenhat
• Oz (magazine)
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• Rab Spall
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• Reflection Eternal
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• Ric Sanders
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• Robert Wyatt
• Robin Farquharson
• Rock Bottom (album)
• Rock music
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• Schoolkids OZ
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• Shleep
• Sid Rawle
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• Soft Heap (band)
• Soft Machine
• Soft Machine Legacy
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• Spare Rib
• Stephen Abrams
• Steve Cook
• Steve Cook (bassist)
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• Storm Thorgerson
• Stu Calver
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• Tariq Ali
• The Animals Film
• The Deviants (band)
• The End of an Ear
• The Madcap Laughs
• The Police
• The Pretty Things
• The Soft Machine
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• The Wilde Flowers
• Theo Travis
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• Tomorrow (band)
• Tony Rivers
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  Better Books
  Better Books was an independent bookstore. It was founded by Tony Godwin and was located at 94 Charing Cross Road, London.
  It was founded by British publisher Tony Godwin who took over the premises at 94 Charing Cross Road, London, in 1946.
  In 1964, Tony Godwin visited San Francisco and the City Lights Bookstore. He met Lawrence Ferlinghetti and suggested a work exchange, whereby Ferlinghetti would send "one of his Beats over in exchange for an English salesman who needed some education". City Lights store manager, Dick McBride, moved to the United Kingdom for six months to help "bohemianize" Better Books.
  Better Books had a string of influential managers including Bill Butler, Bob Cobbing and Barry Miles, who set about ordering a large quantity of books from City Lights and Grove Press.
  Better Books was more than a mere bookshop. Once described as a ‘mini Arts Lab’ it served as stage, cinema and gallery. Its cross-disciplinary approach welcomed new art forms like assemblage, performance art, and radical poetry. Together with other alternative galleries such as 26 Kingly Street and Miles' Indica Bookshop, Better Books was one of the hot spots of the London underground scene.
  
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  Canterbury
  Coordinates: 51°16′30″N 1°05′13″E / 51.275°N 1.087°E / 51.275; 1.087
  Canterbury (ⁱ/ˈkæntərbᵊri/ or /ˈkæntərbɛri/) is a historic English cathedral city, which lies at the heart of the City of Canterbury, a district of Kent in South East England. It lies on the River Stour.
  Originally a Brythonic settlement, it was renamed Durovernum Cantiacorum by the Roman conquerors in the 1st century AD. After it became the chief Jutish settlement, it gained its English name Canterbury, itself derived from the Old English Cantwareburh ("Kent people's stronghold"). After the Kingdom of Kent's conversion to Christianity in 597, St Augustine founded an episcopal see in the city and became the first Archbishop of Canterbury, a position that now heads the Church of England and the worldwide Anglican Communion (though the modern-day Province of Canterbury covers the entire south of England). Thomas Becket's murder at Canterbury Cathedral in 1170 led to the cathedral becoming a place of pilgrimage for Christians worldwide. This pilgrimage provided the theme for Geoffrey Chaucer's 14th-century literary classic The Canterbury Tales. The literary heritage continued with the birth of the playwright Christopher Marlowe in the city in the 16th century.
  
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  Compendium Books
  Compendium Books was an independent bookstore specialising in experimental literary and theoretical publications.
  It was founded by Diana Gravill and Nicholas Rochford and was located at 240 Camden High Street, London and opened in August 1968.
  Following the closures of Better Books and Indica, Compendium was for many years the main place for "the London literary avant-garde". It was a key venue for the British Poetry Revival and for availability of the texts of post-1968 political and cultural theory .
  Compendium Books closed in October 2000. It is now a Dr Martens shop.
  There was also one in Manchester.
  There was not ever a branch in Manchester, I know because I was one of the owners.{D.G.]
  Coordinates: 51°32′28″N 0°8′40″W / 51.54111°N 0.14444°W / 51.54111; -0.14444
  
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  French Riviera
  The Côte d'Azur, pronounced [kot dazyːʁ], often known in English as the French Riviera (French: Côte d'Azur; Occitan: Còsta d'Azur; that is "Azure Coast"), is the Mediterranean coastline of the southeast corner of France, also including the sovereign state of Monaco. There is no official boundary, but it is usually considered to extend from the Italian border in the east to Saint Tropez, Hyères, Toulon or Cassis in the west.
  This coastline was one of the first modern resort areas. It began as a winter health resort for the British upper class at the end of the 18th century. With the arrival of the railway in the mid-19th century, it became the playground and vacation spot of British, Russian, and other aristocrats, such as Queen Victoria and King Edward VII, when he was Prince of Wales. In the summer, it also played home to many members of the Rothschild family. In the first half of the 20th century it was frequented by artists and writers, including Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Edith Wharton, Somerset Maugham and Aldous Huxley, as well as wealthy Americans and Europeans. After World War II it became a popular tourist destination and convention site. Many celebrities, such as Elton John and Brigitte Bardot, have homes in the region. Officially, the Côte d'Azur is home to 163 nationalities with 83,962 foreign residents, although estimates of the number of non-French nationals living in the area are often much higher.
  
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  Granny Takes a Trip
  Coordinates: 51°28′54″N 0°10′52″W / 51.481785°N 0.181°W / 51.481785; -0.181
  Granny Takes a Trip was a boutique opened in February 1966 at 488 Kings Road, Chelsea, London, by Nigel Waymouth, his girlfriend Sheila Cohen and John Pearse. The shop, which was acquired by Freddie Hornik in 1969, remained open until the mid-70s and has been called the "first psychedelic boutique in Groovy London of the 1960s".
  It was also the name of a Purple Gang song of the 1960s, which was named after the store and banned by the BBC.
  The name has been appropriated by clothing stores around the world that are not connected with the original Granny Takes a Trip, including present-day vintage fashion stores in Hermosa Beach, California, Sunset Boulevard and Sydney, Australia.
  The boutique was the brainchild of two young Londoners, Nigel Waymouth and Sheila Cohen, who were looking for an outlet for Cohen’s ever-increasing collection of antique clothes. Waymouth, a free-lance journalist, came up with the name and was offered the premises at 488 Kings Road, Chelsea, London, a previously unfashionable part of the road known as the World’s End. In the summer of 1965, John Pearse, who had trained as a tailor on Savile Row, agreed to join them in the venture. The shop opened in early 1966.
  
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  Indica Gallery
  Coordinates: 51°30′27″N 0°08′16″W / 51.507364°N 0.137737°W / 51.507364; -0.137737
  Indica Gallery was a counterculture art gallery in Mason's Yard (off Duke Street), St. James's, London, England during the late 1960s, in the basement of the Indica Bookshop co-owned by John Dunbar, Peter Asher and Barry Miles. It was supported by Paul McCartney and hosted a show of Yoko Ono's work in November 1966 at which Ono first met John Lennon.
  The International Times newspaper was started in the basement of the Indica bookshop.
  Miles had been running the bookshop and alternative happenings venue Better Books but with new, more traditional, owners arriving, had been planning to open his own bookstore/venue. Through Paolo Leonni, Miles met John Dunbar who was planning on opening a gallery, and with John's friend Peter Asher as silent partner, they combined their ideas into a company called Miles, Asher and Dunbar Limited (MAD) to start the Indica Books and Gallery in September 1965, as an outlet for art and literature. They found empty premises at 6 Masons Yard, which was in the same courtyard as the Scotch of St James club, where John Dunbar was leaving with his girlfriend Marianne Faithful, when he discovered the place.
  
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  UFO Club
  Coordinates: 51°31′06″N 0°07′55″W / 51.518354°N 0.132073°W / 51.518354; -0.132073
  The UFO Club was a famous but shortlived UK underground club in London during the 1960s, venue of performances by many of the top bands of the day.
  The UFO Club (pronounced Yoof-oh) was founded by John Hopkins (usually known as "Hoppy") and Joe Boyd in an Irish dancehall called the "Blarney Club" in the basement of 31 Tottenham Court Road, under the Gala Berkeley Cinema. It opened on Dec. 23, 1966. Initially the club was advertised as "UFO Presents Night Tripper". This had been because Boyd and Hopkins could not decide on "UFO" or "Night Tripper" as a name for their club. Eventually they settled on "UFO".
  Soft Machine and Pink Floyd were booked for the first two Fridays, and then re-engaged as the club carried on into 1967 after its initial success. Initial events combined live music with light shows, avant garde films and slide shows, and dance troupes.
  Pink Floyd's tenure at UFO was short run. As their fame grew they were able to play bigger venues for higher fees. Boyd protested that their increasing fame was largely due to the success of UFO, but the band's management wanted to move on and an agreement was made for just three more Floyd performances at UFO, at an increased fee.
  
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  Zaandam
  Zaandam (Dutch pronunciation: [zaːndɑm]) is a town in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. It is the main city of the municipality of Zaanstad, and received city rights in 1811. It is located on the Zaan, close to the North Sea Canal, and is close to Amsterdam.
  The statistical district Zaandam, which covers the city and the surrounding countryside, has a population of around 72.597.
  Zaandam was a separate municipality until 1974, when it became a part of the new municipality of Zaanstad.
  Zaandam (formerly called Saenredam) and the surrounding Zaan River region, called the Zaanstreek, have a history that is intimately connected with industry.
  In the Golden Age, Zaandam served as a large milling center. Thousands of windmills powered saws that were processing Scandinavian wood for the shipbuilding and paper industries. A statue was commissioned from the Yugoslav sculptor Slavomir Miletić in honor of this era, and the statue, “The Woodworker” (“De Houtwerker”), was installed on 20 June 2004.
  
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• Alan Skidmore
  Alan Skidmore (born Alan Richard James Skidmore, 21 April 1942, London) is a tenor saxophonist of jazz and blues music, son of the saxophonist Jimmy Skidmore.
  Skidmore began his professional career at 16 and early in his career toured with comedian Tony Hancock. In the mid to late 1960s he worked with John Mayall's Bluesbreakers and Ronnie Scott's group. In the 1970s, he was part of Keith Tippett's jazz fusion bigband project Centipede and worked - among others - with Soft Machine, The Nice, Graham Collier, Brotherhood of Breath, Mike Gibbs, Elton Dean, Kate Bush and Curved Air. He has since played with many other musicians in blues and jazz, including Chick Corea, Alexis Korner, Georgie Fame, and the Van Morrison band.
  His first album under his own name was 1969's Once Upon A Time and on this and his other albums a strong John Coltrane influence can be heard, especially on his 1988 album Tribute to 'trane, and 1998's After the Rain, orchestral settings of tunes that had been recorded (and some of them written) by Coltrane. In 1973 he co-founded the all-saxophone ensemble S.O.S. with John Surman and Mike Osborne. At the end of the Apartheid regime he went to South Africa to record with musicians from the percussion group Amampondo, including pianist Simpiwe Matole, playing modern jazz over a texture of African percussion and chants.
  
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• Alan Wakeman
  Alan Wakeman (born 13 October 1947, Hammersmith, West London) is an English saxophonist, known for his work in Soft Machine during 1976, appearing on the album Softs. He is a cousin of the keyboard player Rick Wakeman.
  Wakeman started on the clarinet at age 14 and, while at school, played in a band with cousin Rick on piano. He switched to the alto saxophone at 16, then subsequently to the tenor saxophone; he also plays soprano saxophone.
  He joined the Paul Lytton Quartet in 1968 and had his own trio in 1970 (with Harry Miller on bass). He subsequently worked with Graham Collier (including the albums Songs for My Father and The Day of the Dead), Johnny Dankworth and Mike Westbrook (including playing saxophone and clarinet on the 1975 release Citadel/Room 315 and 1976's Love/Dream and Variations). He was also an original member of Alan Gowen's band Gilgamesh in 1972-3, but left before Gilgamesh's first album.
  He left Soft Machine in 1976 to join David Essex's band, having first worked with him in 1974 on the album David Essex. He also worked further with Westbrook and in the West End, including for the musical, Grease.
  
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  Alexander Trocchi
  Alexander Whitelaw Robertson Trocchi (30 July 1925 – 15 April 1984) was a Scottish novelist.
  Trocchi was born in Glasgow to a Scottish mother and Italian father. After working as a seaman on the Murmansk convoys, he attended University of Glasgow. On graduation he obtained a traveling grant that enabled him to relocate to continental Europe. In the early 1950s, he lived in Paris and edited the literary magazine Merlin, which published Henry Miller, Samuel Beckett, Christopher Logue, and Pablo Neruda, amongst others. Although not published in Merlin, American writer Terry Southern, who lived in Paris from 1948−1952, became a close friend of both Trocchi and his colleague Richard Seaver, and the three later co-edited the anthology Writers In Revolt (1962). Though established somewhat in rivalry with the Paris Review, George Plimpton also had served on Merlin's editorial board. Trocchi claimed that this journal came to an end when the US State Department canceled its many subscriptions in protest over an article by Jean-Paul Sartre praising the homoeroticism of Jean Genet.
  
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  Allan Holdsworth
  Allan Holdsworth (born 6 August 1946) is an English guitarist and composer. He has released twelve studio albums as a solo artist and played a variety of musical styles spanning a period of more than four decades, but is best known for his work in jazz fusion. A player noted for his advanced knowledge of the fretboard and unique playing, Holdsworth is cited as an influence by such renowned rock and instrumental guitarists as Eddie Van Halen,Joe Satriani,Greg Howe,Shawn Lane,Richie Kotzen,John Petrucci and Alex Lifeson.Frank Zappa once lauded him as "one of the most interesting guys on guitar on the planet".
  Holdsworth first recorded in 1969 with the band 'Igginbottom on their lone release, Igginbottom's Wrench (later reissued under the group name of "Allan Holdsworth & Friends"). In 1971 he joined Sunship, an improvisational band featuring keyboardist Alan Gowen, future King Crimson percussionist Jamie Muir and bassist Laurie Baker. They played live but would never release any recorded material. Next came a brief stint with jazz rock band Nucleus, with whom Holdsworth played on their 1972 album, Belladonna; likewise with progressive rock band Tempest, on their self-titled first studio album in 1973. His playing can also be heard on a live BBC Radio concert from that year, which was released several decades later in 2005 as part of Under the Blossom: The Anthology, a Tempest compilation album.
  
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• Andy Summers
  Andrew James "Andy" Summers (born 31 December 1942) is an English guitarist born in Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire, England. Best known as the guitarist for rock band The Police, he has also recorded twelve solo albums, collaborated with many other artists, toured extensively under his own name, published several books, and composed several film scores.
  His birth name is Andrew James Summers. For a brief two-year period, Summers spelled his name Somers, but subsequently reverted to using his real family name Summers.^{[citation needed]}
  During his early childhood, his family moved to Bournemouth in the county of Dorset. After years of piano lessons, he took up the guitar at the age of thirteen. By age sixteen he was playing in local clubs. By nineteen, he had moved to London with his friend Zoot Money to form Zoot Money's Big Roll Band.
  Summers' professional career began in the mid 1960s in London as the guitarist for the British rhythm and blues band Zoot Money's Big Roll Band, which eventually came under the influence of the spreading psychedelic scene and morphed into the acid rock group Dantalian's Chariot. After the demise of Dantalion's Chariot, Summers joined The Soft Machine for a period of six months and toured the United States. For a brief time in 1968, he was a member of The Animals, then known as Eric Burdon and the Animals, with whom he recorded one album, Love Is. The album features a recording of Traffic's "Coloured Rain", which includes a guitar solo by Summers that runs a full 4 minutes and 15 seconds.
  
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  Barney Bubbles
  Barney Bubbles (born Colin Fulcher, July 30, 1942 - November 14, 1983) was a radical English graphic artist whose work encompassed graphic design and music video direction. Bubbles, who also sketched and painted privately, is best known for his distinctive contribution to the design practices associated with the British independent music scene of the 1970s and 1980s. His record sleeves, laden with symbols and riddles, were his most recognisable output.
  Fulcher was born in Tranmere Road, Whitton, Middlesex (now Greater London), in July 1942. He attended Isleworth Grammar School. In 1958 he embarked on a retail display course for a National Diploma in Design (NDD) at the art school of Twickenham College of Technology. During his five years at the college Fulcher received a multi-disciplinary education that included training in cardboard design, display and packaging, exploited later in his record sleeve work.
  After leaving college in 1963 Fulcher worked as an assistant at the design company Michael Tucker + Associates in London. Its clients included Pirelli. In a rare interview in 1981 Bubbles described Tucker's discipline as "very Swiss; very hard; unjustified; very grey. He taught me everything about typography." Tucker's studio produced the posters for Hugh Hudson's Pirelli-sponsored film The Tortoise & The Hare (1967), for which Fulcher designed the poster lettering on a freelance basis.
  
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  Barry Miles
  Barry Miles (or "Miles", born 1943, Cirencester, England) is an English author known for his participation in and writing on the subject of the 1960s London underground. He has written numerous books and his work has also regularly appeared in left-wing papers such as The Guardian. In the 1960s, he was co-owner of the Indica Gallery and helped start the independent newspaper International Times.
  In the 1960s, Miles worked at Better Books, which was managed by Tony Godwin. Godwin was friends with Lawrence Ferlinghetti with whom he would exchange Penguin books for City Lights publications. In 1965 Allen Ginsberg gave a reading at Better Books which led to the International Poetry Incarnation, a seminal event that was co-organised by Miles.
  In 1965 Miles and his wife, the former Susan Crane, introduced McCartney to hash brownies by using a recipe for hash fudge which they had found in The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook.
  Following the International Poetry Incarnation, Miles established the Indica Gallery and Bookshop, allowing him to meet many of the stars of the Swinging London social scene. Miles brought Paul McCartney into contact with people who wanted to start the International Times, which McCartney helped to fund.
  
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  Bob Cobbing
  
  Bob Cobbing (30 July 1920 – 29 September 2002) was a British sound, visual, concrete and performance poet who was a central figure in the British Poetry Revival.
  Cobbing was born in Enfield and grew up within the Plymouth Brethren. He attended Enfield Grammar School and then trained as an accountant. He later went to Bognor Training College to become a teacher. During the Second World War, he was a conscientious objector.
  His involvement with performance began with the Hendon Experimental Art Club and the Hendon-based magazine And in 1951. This led to his setting up Writers Forum, which began publishing in 1963. In 1964 he published ABC In Sound, a book that combined his interest in sound and concrete poetry in an exploration of the visual and auditory possibilities of the English alphabet.
  He left teaching around this time and managed Better Books on Charing Cross Road, London. Better Books was more than a mere bookshop. Once described as a ‘mini Arts Lab’ it served as stage, cinema and gallery. Its cross-disciplinary approach welcomed new art forms like assemblage, performance art, and radical poetry. Together with other alternative galleries such as 26 Kingly Street and Indica Bookshop, Better Books was one of the hot spots of the London underground scene.
  
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• Brian Hopper
  Brian Hopper (born 3 January 1943, in Canterbury, Kent) is a British guitarist and saxophonist, and older brother of the late bassist Hugh Hopper. With Hugh, he was a member in the early Canterbury scene band Wilde Flowers. He also played saxophone on Soft Machine's album Volume Two. The death of two bandmates in the early 1970s discouraged Brian from pursuing a proper career in music, so he went into agricultural crop protection research and development instead.
  Only in the latter part of the 1990s did Brian re-emerge as an artist of contemporary as well as historical significance. One of his projects was a four-CD compilation of archival Canterbury scene recordings from his private collection.
  
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  Caroline Coon
  Caroline Coon (born 1945) is an English artist, journalist and political activist. Her artwork, which often explores sexual themes from a feminist standpoint (she is bisexual), has been exhibited at many major London galleries, including the Saatchi Gallery and the Tate.
  Coon was born to a family of Kent landowners and had five brothers. She left home at 16 and came to London to find a job. She lived in Notting Hill and began by doing some modelling work. Trained as a figurative painter, Coon became involved in the 1960s underground movement in London while still attending art school. In 1967 she founded Release, an agency set up to provide legal advice and arrange legal representation for young people charged with the possession of drugs. She remains politically active, campaigning primarily for feminist causes, including the legalisation of prostitution.
  In the 1970s, Coon became involved in the London punk scene, writing about the bands for Melody Maker and providing artwork for groups such as The Clash (whom she briefly managed) and The Police. In the "Punky Business" (punk rock) episode of the BBC comedy series The Goodies, Jane Asher plays a parody of Coon ("Caroline Kook"), the dream lover of Tim Brooke-Taylor's aspiring punk rock star.
  
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• Craig Sams
  Craig Sams (born 1966) is a UK-based baker, grocer, chocolatier, columnist and author.
  Craig Sams was born in Nebraska. He graduated from Wharton Business School in 1966.
  In October 1966, Sams went to England with plans to open a macrobiotic restaurant. He opened Seed, a macrobiotic restaurant in Paddington with his brother Greg Sams in 1968. The Sams brothers opened a specialised macrobiotic natural food shop, Ceres Grain, the following year. He and his brother Greg and their father Ken edited and published 'Seed, the Journal of Organic Living' 1971-1977. In 1970 Greg and Craig set up Harmony Foods, which eventually became known as Whole Earth Foods.
  In 1991, with his partner Josephine Fairley, he founded Green & Black's chocolate. Green & Black's was sold to Cadbury in 2005. Cadbury was acquired by Kraft Foods in 2010. He continues in the honorary role of President and advisor.
  He writes a monthly column in the Organic Products section of Natural Products News
  From 1990 until 2001 he was Hon. Treasurer of the Soil Association, the British organic food and farming charity. From 2001 to 2007 he was Chairman. From 2007-2009 he was Chairman of Soil Association Certification Ltd, the charity's inspection and certification subsidiary and continues to serve as a board member. He is co-founder and director of Carbon Gold Ltd http://www.carbongold.com, a biochar project and production company that converts woody biomass into charcoal that is used as a soil amendment and as a climate mitigation technology.
  
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  Daevid Allen
  Daevid Allen (born Christopher David Allen, 13 January 1938 in Melbourne, Australia), sometimes credited as Divided Alien, an Australian poet, guitarist, singer, composer and performance artist is co-founder of psychedelic rock groups Soft Machine (in the UK, 1966) and Gong (in France, 1970).
  In 1960, inspired by the Beat Generation writers he had discovered whilst working in a Melbourne bookshop, Allen travelled to Paris where he stayed at the Beat Hotel, moving into a room that had recently been vacated by Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky. While selling the International Herald Tribune around Le Chat qui Peche and the Latin Quarter, he met Terry Riley and also gained free access to the jazz clubs in the area.
  In 1961, Allen travelled to England, renting a room in Lydden near Dover and soon began to look for work as a musician. He first replied to a newspaper advertisement for a guitar player to join Dover-based group the Rolling Stones (no connection with the later famous band of that name) [1] who had lost singer/guitarist Neil Landon, but he did not join them. After meeting up with William S. Burroughs, and inspired by philosophies of Sun Ra, he formed the free jazz outfit, the Daevid Allen Trio, which included his landlord's son, 16-year old Robert Wyatt. They performed at Burroughs' theatre pieces based on the novel The Ticket That Exploded. 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.
  
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• Dave Lynch
  Dave Lynch (born 13 March 1902, date of death unknown) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Richmond in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
  Lynch, a full-forward from Christian Brothers Old Boys, averaged 3.9 goals a game for Richmond, but could only amass 20 senior appearances in his eight years at the club. He began in 1922 with four goals on debut, against St Kilda. After playing in two more fixtures that year and just one in 1923, he didn't return to the team until 1926. He was Richmond's leading goal-kicker in the 1926 VFL season, despite not appearing until round 12 and featuring in just six games. His 31 goals consisted of, in order, 7, 6, 5, 5, 5 and 3 goal hauls. Lynch played in the opening nine rounds of the 1927 season and kicked 32 goals, which found see him finish second in the goal-kicking, behind Jack Baggott. He didn't play a single VFL game in 1928 and played just once in 1929, when he ended his career as he had begun, with four goals.
  
  
  
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• Dave MacRae
  David Scott MacRae (born 2 April 1940, Auckland, New Zealand) is a keyboardist from New Zealand, noted for his contributions in jazz and the Canterbury scene.
  MacRae studied at the New South Wales Conservatorium of Music and then worked in Australia in the 1960s as an arranger for Festival Records. He moved to the United States in 1969, playing with experimental groups in Los Angeles before joining Buddy Rich's ensemble in 1970. He relocated to London in 1971, working that year with jazz musicians Clark Terry, Chet Baker, John Hendricks, and Gil Evans.
  In 1971 he was briefly with a group called Caparius before he joined Ian Carr's group Nucleus, where he remained until 1973. Concurrently he played in Matching Mole and Elton Dean's band Just Us. He played in WMWM and Giles Farnaby's Dream Band in 1973 and did session work for Back Door in 1974, but left Nucleus around this time to concentrate on his own project called Pacific Eardrum, which he led with his wife Joy Yates until 1979. He continued working with Canterbury musicians such as Robert Wyatt, Mike Gibbs, and Richard Sinclair through the 1970s.
  
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• Dick Morrissey
  Richard Edwin "Dick" Morrissey (9 May 1940, Horley, Surrey - 8 November 2000, Deal, Kent) was a British jazz musician and composer. He played the tenor sax, soprano sax and flute.
  Dick Morrissey emerged in the early 1960s in the wake of Tubby Hayes, Britain’s pre-eminent sax player at the time. Self-taught, he started playing clarinet in his school band at the age of sixteen and then joining the Original Climax Jazz Band. Going on to join trumpeter Gus Galbraith's Septet, where alto-sax player Peter King introduced him to Charlie Parker's recordings, he began specialising on tenor saxophone shortly after.
  
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  Duggie Fields
  Duggie Fields is a British artist, born in Tidworth in 1945 and resident in London, in the Earls Court area.
  He spent his youth in the English countryside with his family, then briefly studied architecture at Regent Street Polytechnic. In 1964 Duggie Fields began at the Chelsea School of Art, where he stayed for four years, before leaving with a scholarship that took him on his first visit to the United States, in 1968. During the years at the Chelsea School of Art he lived in the Kensington and Chelsea area.
  As a student Fields' work progressed from minimal, conceptual and constructivist phases to a more hard-edge post-Pop figuration. His main influences were at that time Jackson Pollock, Mondrian and comic books, with a special regard to those worked on by Stan Lee. Around 1968 Fields went to live in Earls Court Square sharing a flat with Syd Barrett, who had left Pink Floyd just previous. Fields still lives in the same flat and he works in Barrett's former room using it as his atelier.
  
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  Edgar Broughton Band
  The Edgar Broughton Band, founded in 1968 in Warwick, England, is an English Psychedelic Rock group.
  The band started their career as a blues group under the name of The Edgar Broughton Blues Band, playing to a dedicated but limited following in the region around their hometown of Warwick. However, when the band began to lean towards the emerging psychedelic movement, dropping the 'Blues' from their name as well as their music, Victor Unitt left.
  In 1968, the Broughtons moved to Notting Hill Gate, London, seeking a recording contract and a wider audience, and were picked up by Blackhill Enterprises. Blackhill landed them their first record deal, on EMI's progressive rock label Harvest Records, in December 1968. Their first single was "Evil"/"Death of an Electric Citizen", released in June 1969, which was also the first single released by Harvest.
  The first single was followed by the Broughtons' first album, Wasa Wasa. Wasa Wasa retained a heavily blues influenced sound that was hard-driven and propelled by Edgar Broughton's gritty vocal style, which was similar to that of Captain Beefheart and Howlin' Wolf. After a series of free concerts, many performed on the back of trucks and in the face of police harassment, the Broughtons entered into an attempt to capture their ferocious live sound on record by organising a performance at Abbey Road on 9 December 1969. Only one track was released at the time: a rendition of "Out, Demons Out!", an adaptation of The Fugs' song "Exorcising The Demons Out Of The Pentagon", which had become the band's set-closer and anthem. The rest of the recording was lost until its rediscovery and release in a remixed form in 2004 as Keep Them Freaks a Rollin': Live at Abbey Road 1969.
  
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  Elton Dean
  Elton Dean (28 October 1945 – 8 February 2006) was an English jazz musician who performed on alto saxophone, saxello (a variant of the soprano saxophone) and occasionally keyboard.
  Dean was born Nottingham, England and from 1966–67, Dean was a member of the band Bluesology, led by Long John Baldry. The band's pianist, Reginald Dwight, afterward combined Dean's and Baldry's first names for his own stage name, Elton John.
  Dean established his reputation as a member of the Keith Tippett Sextet from 1968 to 1970, and in the band Soft Machine from 1969 to 1972. Shortly before leaving Soft Machine he started his own group, Just Us. From 1975 to 1978 he led a nine-piece band called Ninesense, performing at the Bracknell Jazz Festival and similar events. His own groups since then, usually quartets or quintets, have most often worked in the free jazz mode, with little or no pre-composed material. At the same time, he continued to work with other groups that are very composition-based, such as guitarist Phil Miller's In Cahoots, drummer Pip Pyle's Equipe Out, and various projects with former Soft Machine bassist Hugh Hopper.
  
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  Felix Dennis
  Felix Dennis (born 1947) is a British publisher, poet, and philanthropist. His company, Dennis Publishing, pioneered computer and hobbyist magazine publishing in the United Kingdom. In more recent times, the company has added lifestyle titles such as its flagship brand The Week, which is published in the UK, the United States and Australia.
  Dennis was born in Kingston-upon-Thames in 1947. After leaving Harrow College of Art, Dennis played in R&B bands.
  Dennis started his career as a street seller for the underground counter culture magazine Oz in 1971. The magazine printed a mixture of left-field stories, discussions of drugs, sex and contentious political stories. Dennis was quickly promoted to co-editor and became involved in the longest conspiracy trial in English history over the "School Kids" edition. The editors invited contributions from children, including a sexually explicit drawing of Rupert the Bear. This resulted in a visit from the police and the subsequent arrest of Jim Anderson, Richard Neville and Dennis. Dennis recorded a single with John Lennon to raise money for a legal defence fund. At the conclusion of the trial, the "Oz Three", defended by John Mortimer, were found not guilty on the charge of “Conspiracy to deprave and corrupt the Morals of the Young of the Realm,” but were convicted of two lesser offences and sentenced to imprisonment. The convictions were later quashed.
  
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  Germaine Greer
  Germaine Greer (born 29 January 1939) is an Australian writer, academic, journalist and scholar of early modern English literature, and a significant feminist voice of the later 20th century.
  Greer's ideas have created controversy ever since her book The Female Eunuch became an international best-seller in 1970, turning her into a household name and bringing her both adulation and opposition. She is also the author of many other books including Sex and Destiny: The Politics of Human Fertility (1984); The Change: Women, Ageing and the Menopause (1991); Shakespeare's Wife (2007); and The Whole Woman (1999). She is Professor Emerita of English Literature and Comparative Studies at the University of Warwick.
  Greer has defined her goal as "women's liberation" as distinct from "equality with men". She asserts that women's liberation meant embracing gender differences in a positive fashion—a struggle for the freedom of women to define their own values, order their own priorities and determine their own fates. In contrast, Greer sees equality as mere assimilation and "settling" to live the lives of "unfree men".
  
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  Giorgio Gomelsky
  Giorgio Gomelsky (born 28 February 1934) is a filmmaker, impresario, music manager, songwriter (as Oscar Rasputin) and record producer. He owned the Crawdaddy Club where The Rolling Stones were house band, and he was involved with their early management. He hired The Yardbirds as a replacement and managed them. He was also their producer from the beginning through 1966. In 1967, he started Marmalade Records (distributed by Polydor), which featured "Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger and The Trinity", The Blossom Toes, and early recordings by Graham Gouldman, Kevin Godley and Lol Creme, who became 10cc. The label closed in 1969.
  Giorgio was also instrumental in the careers of The Soft Machine, Daevid Allen and Gong, and Magma.
  He now lives in New York City.
  Giorgio Gomelsky was born in Georgia. His father was a medical doctor, and his mother was from Monte Carlo. The family left in 1938 and via Syria, Egypt, and Italy, in 1944 settled in Switzerland, the country where his father had trained.
  Giorgio discovered jazz at the age of 10, while living in Italy. One Sunday he was caught out by the 4pm German curfew, so he stayed in the house of friends. Exploring their attic he discovered a gramophone and some jazz records. As a symbol of defiance he and his friends took to occasionally briefly blasting the music out of the window. Fortunately they were never caught. After the liberation, eventually black GI's arrived and furthered his jazz education.
  
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  Greg Sams
  Gregory Sams (born 1948) is a UK-based, American-born, fractal artist, social thinker, author, publisher, inventor, macrobioticist and creator of the veggie burger.
  Greg moved to London and, aged 19, opened SEED, a macrobiotic restaurant in Paddington with his brother Craig Sams in 1968.
  SEED Restaurant soon became popular with the 1960s London psychedelic scene, and was frequented by John Lennon among others, who drew a cartoon about his experiences at SEED.
  The Sams brothers opened a specialised macrobiotic foodshop, Ceres Grain, the following year. To spread the word about Ceres and SEED, Greg published three editions of a specialised magazine called 'Harmony'. During the 1970s, Greg, his brother Craig and their father Ken edited and published a magazine called 'Seed, the Journal of Organic Living' over a seven year period.
  In 1970 Greg and Craig set up Harmony Foods, which eventually became known as Whole Earth Foods.
  In 1982, Greg left Whole Earth Foods with his brother who went on to become chairperson of the Soil Association, and develop Green & Blacks organic chocolate with his partner. Greg went on to invent the first veggie burger, which he christened VegeBurger, which became a worldwide success.
  
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  Heathcote Williams
  Heathcote Williams (born 15 November 1941) is an English poet, actor and award-winning playwright. He is also an intermittent painter, sculptor and long-time conjuror. He is perhaps best known for the book-length polemical poem Whale Nation, which in 1988 became "the most powerful argument for the newly instigated worldwide ban on whaling." In the early 1970s, his agitational graffiti were a feature on the walls of the then low-rent end of London's Notting Hill district.
  John Henley Jasper Heathcote-Williams was born in Helsby, Cheshire. After his schooldays at Eton, he changed his name to Heathcote Williams. His father, also named Heathcote Williams, was a lawyer. From his early twenties, Williams has enjoyed a minor cult following. His first book was The Speakers (1964), an account of life at Speakers' Corner in London's Hyde Park. In 1974, it was adapted for the stage by the Joint Stock Theatre Company.
  His first full-length play, AC/DC (1970), a critique of the burgeoning mental health industry, includes a thinly veiled attack on his fellow denizen of 1960s alternative society, and doyen of the anti-psychiatry movement, R.D. Laing. Its production at the Royal Court Theatre, did not, however, appear to impede cordial relations between the two in later years. AC/DC won the London Evening Standard's Most Promising Play Award. It also received the 1972 John Whiting Award for being "a new and distinctive development in dramatic writing with particular relevance to contemporary society." It was described in the Times Literary Supplement in a front-page review by Charles Marowitz as 'the first play of the 21st century.' AC/DC was produced in New York in 1971 at the Chelsea Theater Center at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
  
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  Hugh Hopper
  Hugh Colin Hopper (29 April 1945 – 7 June 2009) was a progressive rock and jazz fusion bass guitarist. He was a prominent member of the Canterbury scene, as a member of Soft Machine and various other related bands.
  Starting in 1963 as bassist with The Daevid Allen Trio, alongside drummer Robert Wyatt, he alternated between free jazz and rhythm and blues. In 1964 with Brian Hopper (his brother), Robert Wyatt, Kevin Ayers and Richard Sinclair he formed The Wilde Flowers, a pop music group. Although they never released any records during their existence (a compilation was released 30 years later), The Wilde Flowers are acknowledged as the founders of the Canterbury scene and spawned its two most important groups, Soft Machine and Caravan.
  Hopper's role with Soft Machine was initially as the group's road manager, but he already composed for their first album The Soft Machine and played bass on one of its tracks. In 1969 he was recruited to be the group's bassist for their second album, Volume Two and, with Mike Ratledge and Robert Wyatt, he took part in a recording session for a solo album of Syd Barrett's (formerly of Pink Floyd, with whom the early Soft Machine had regularly gigged ). Hopper continued with Soft Machine, playing bass and contributing numerous compositions until 1973. During his tenure the group evolved from a psychedelic pop group to an instrumental jazz-rock fusion band. In 1972, shortly before leaving Soft Machine, he recorded the first record under his own name, 1984 (named after George Orwell's novel). This was a decidedly non-commercial record featuring lengthy solo pieces using tape loops as well as shorter pieces with a group.
  
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• Ian Carr
  Ian Carr (21 April 1933 – 25 February 2009) was a Scottish jazz musician, composer, writer, and educator.
  Carr was born in Dumfries, Scotland, the elder brother of Mike Carr. From 1952 to 1956, he attended King's College, now Newcastle University, where he read English Literature, followed by a diploma in education.
  At the age of seventeen Carr started to teach himself trumpet. After university he joined his brother in a Newcastle band, the EmCee Five, from 1960 to 1962, before moving to London, where he became co-leader with Don Rendell of the Rendell–Carr quintet (1963–1969). In its six years, the group (including pianist Michael Garrick, bassist Dave Green, and drummer Trevor Tomkins) made five albums for EMI – all of which have been re-issued – and performed internationally.
  After leaving the quintet, Carr went on to form the ground-breaking jazz-rock band Nucleus. This led to the release of twelve albums (some under the band's name, some under Carr's), and a successful international career. In their first year Nucleus won first prize at the Montreux Jazz Festival, released their first album (Elastic Rock), and performed at both the Newport Jazz Festival and the Village Gate jazz club. Carr also played with the United Jazz and Rock Ensemble since 1975.
  
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  Jack Bruce
  John Symon Asher "Jack" Bruce (born 14 May 1943) is a Scottish musician and songwriter, respected as a founding member of the British psychedelic rock power trio, Cream, for a solo career that spans several decades, and for his participation in several well-known musical ensembles. Best recognized as a memorable vocalist and bass guitarist, Bruce has been referred to as a "World-class pioneer in his main instrument; a composer of some of the most endurable and recognisable rock songs of our time; an accomplished classical, jazz and Latin musician and one of popular music's most distinctive and evocative voices." He is also trained as a classical cellist. The Sunday Times stated "... many consider him to be one of the greatest bass players of all time."
  Bruce was born on 14 May 1943, in Bishopbriggs, East Dunbartonshire to musical parents who moved frequently, resulting in the young Bruce attending 14 different schools, ending up at Bellahouston Academy. Bruce began playing the jazz bass in his teens, and won a scholarship to study cello and musical composition at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, while playing in Jim McHarg's Scotsville Jazzband to support himself. The Academy disapproved of its students playing jazz, however. "They found out," Bruce told Musician correspondent Jim Macnie, "and said 'you either stop, or leave college.' So I left college."
  
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  James Haynes
  James Haynes, commonly known as Jim Haynes (born November 10, 1933), was a leading figure in the London "underground" and alternative/counter-culture scene of the 1960s. He was involved with the founding of the paper International Times and the London Arts Lab in Drury Lane for experimental and mixed media work.
  Jim Haynes was born in Haynesville, Louisiana, U.S. After spending several years in Venezuela, he attended university in his hometown. In 1956, his military service brought him to Scotland and he decided to stay there afterwards. He attended Edinburgh University and, among other writing and musical activities, helped in the foundation of the Traverse Theatre and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. He ran the Paperback Bookshop in George Square ("at the sign of the rhinoceros head" - there was a stuffed trophy head on the pavement outside), which he boasted was "Britain's first paperback only bookshop", until the University redeveloped the Square and he lost the premises.
  In 1966 he relocated to London in the middle of the "swinging 60s" and became heavily involved in the underground cultural scene, co-founding the pivotal alternative paper International Times, known as "I.T.", along with others including Barry Miles and John Hopkins.
  
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  Jeff Nuttall
  Jeff Nuttall (July 8, 1933 – January 4, 2004) was an English poet, publisher, actor, painter, sculptor, jazz trumpeter, anarchist sympathiser and social commentator who was a key part of the British 1960s counter-culture. He was the brother of literary critic A. D. Nuttall.
  Jeff Nuttall was born in Clitheroe, Lancashire, and grew up in Herefordshire. He studied painting in the years after the Second World War and began publishing poetry in the early 1960s. Together with Bob Cobbing, he founded the influential Writers Forum Press and writers workshop.
  He also associated with many of the American beat generation writers, especially William Burroughs. Nuttall's self-published "My Own Mag" mimeographed newsletter provided Burroughs with an important outlet for his experimental literature in the early 1960s.
  In 1966 he was one of the founders of the People Show, an early and long-lasting performance art group and was involved in the founding of the UK underground newspaper International Times. In 1967 two of his illustrations appeared in the counter-cultural tabloid newspaper The Last Times (Volume 1, number 1, Fall 1967) published by Charles Plymell.
  
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  Jimi Hendrix
  James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American musician and singer-songwriter. He is widely considered to be the greatest electric guitarist in music history, and one of the most influential musicians of his era despite mainstream exposure limited to just three years. After initial success in Europe with his group The Jimi Hendrix Experience, he achieved fame in the United States following his 1967 performance at the Monterey Pop Festival. Later, he headlined the iconic 1969 Woodstock Festival and the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival. He often favored raw overdriven amplifiers with high gain and treble and helped develop the previously undesirable technique of guitar amplifier feedback.
  Hendrix helped to popularize use of the wah-wah pedal in mainstream rock, which he often used to deliver tonal exaggerations in his solos, particularly with high bends, complex guitar playing, and use of legato. As a record producer, he also broke new ground in using the recording studio as an extension of his musical ideas. He was one of the first to experiment with stereophonic phasing effects for rock recording.^{[citation needed]} He was influenced by blues artists such as B.B. King, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Albert King and Elmore James,rhythm and blues and soul guitarists Curtis Mayfield and Steve Cropper, and the jazz guitarist Wes Montgomery. Hendrix began dressing and wearing a moustache like Little Richard when he performed and recorded in his band from March 1, 1964 through to the spring of 1965. In 1966, he stated, "I want to do with my guitar what Little Richard does with his voice".
  
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• Jimmy Hastings
  James Brian Gordon 'Jimmy' Hastings (born 12 May 1938, in Aberdeen, Scotland), is a British professional musician associated with the Canterbury scene.
  He has played with his brother Pye Hastings in Caravan, with Soft Machine, Hatfield and the North, National Health, Bryan Ferry, Chris Squire, among others. He currently (2006) plays alto saxophone, clarinet and flute with Humphrey Lyttelton's 8 piece Jazz band.
  
  
  
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  Joe Boyd
  Joe Boyd (born August 5, 1942) is an American record producer and writer. He formerly owned Witchseason production company and Hannibal Records. Boyd has played a crucial role in the recording careers of Pink Floyd, Fairport Convention, Sandy Denny, Richard Thompson, Nick Drake, The Incredible String Band, Vashti Bunyan, John and Beverley Martyn, Maria Muldaur, Kate and Anna McGarrigle and Muzsikás.
  Boyd was born in Boston, Massachusetts and raised in Princeton, New Jersey. He attended Pomfret School in Pomfret, Connecticut. He first became involved in music promoting blues artists while a student at Harvard University. After graduating, Boyd worked as a production and tour manager for music impressario George Wein, which took Boyd to Europe to organise concerts with Muddy Waters, Coleman Hawkins, Stan Getz and Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Boyd was responsible for the sound at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, when Bob Dylan played a controversial set backed by electric musicians.
  In 1964, Boyd paid his first visit to Britain, returning the following year to establish an overseas office of Elektra Records. In 1966, Boyd opened UFO Club, London’s first psychedelic ballroom. He worked with UFO regulars Pink Floyd, and produced their first single, Arnold Layne, and recordings by Soft Machine. Boyd worked extensively with audio engineer John Wood at Sound Techniques studio in Chelsea. In this studio, Boyd and Wood made a succession of celebrated albums with British folk and folk rock artists, including the Incredible String Band, Martin Carthy, Nick Drake,John Martyn, Fairport Convention and Richard Thompson. Some of these were produced by Boyd's production company, Witchseason.
  
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• John Etheridge
  John Michael Glyn Etheridge (born 12 January 1948 in Lambeth, South East London) is a British jazz/fusion guitarist associated with the Canterbury Scene.
  He began playing at 13, his primary influences then being Hank Marvin of The Shadows and Django Reinhardt. Although his father was a jazz pianist, he was primarily self-taught. By the time he joined his first notable band, Rush Release (including future Gracious! drummer Robert Lipson), his influences were Peter Green, Jeff Beck and, later, Jimi Hendrix. The band played at London's Speakeasy Club ca. 1966, on occasion jamming with such luminaries as Eric Clapton. Between 1967-70, Etheridge's studies (history of art at Essex University) took him away from the London scene. A crucial discovery for him during this period was John McLaughlin's debut album Extrapolation.
  Back in London, Etheridge briefly joined the Deep Purple offshoot Warhorse, followed by a stint with Icarus, shortly after that band had completed its debut album The Marvel World Of Icarus. "Although I was billed on the record, I did not actually play on it. The only thing of note I did with them was a tour of Rumania in 1971, at the height of the Ceaucescu regime. Halfway through the tour, we were expelled form the country as a pernicious influence - I remember that the crowds went absolutely wild when we played which enraged the authorities ! This was my first foreign tour after leaving university".
  
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  John Marshall
  John Marshall (September 24, 1755 – July 6, 1835) was the Chief Justice of the United States (1801–1835) whose court opinions helped lay the basis for American constitutional law and made the Supreme Court of the United States a coequal branch of government along with the legislative and executive branches. Previously, Marshall had been a leader of the Federalist Party in Virginia and served in the United States House of Representatives from 1799 to 1800. He was Secretary of State under President John Adams from 1800 to 1801.
  The longest-serving Chief Justice of the United States, Marshall dominated the Court for over three decades and played a significant role in the development of the American legal system. Most notably, he reinforced the principle that federal courts are obligated to exercise judicial review, by disregarding purported laws if they violate the Constitution. Thus, Marshall cemented the position of the American judiciary as an independent and influential branch of government. Furthermore, the Marshall Court made several important decisions relating to federalism, affecting the balance of power between the federal government and the states during the early years of the republic. In particular, he repeatedly confirmed the supremacy of federal law over state law, and supported an expansive reading of the enumerated powers.
  
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  John Peel
  John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, OBE (30 August 1939 – 25 October 2004), known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey, radio presenter, record producer and journalist. He was the longest-serving of the original BBC Radio 1 DJs, broadcasting regularly from 1967 until his death in 2004. He was known for his eclectic taste in music and his honest and warm broadcasting style.
  He was one of the first broadcasters to play psychedelic rock and progressive rock records on British radio, and he is widely acknowledged for promoting artists working in various genres, including pop, reggae, indie rock, alternative rock, punk, hardcore punk, breakcore, grindcore, death metal, British hip hop, and dance music.
  Peel's Radio 1 shows were notable for the regular 'Peel sessions', which usually consisted of four songs recorded by an artist live in the BBC's studios, and which often provided the first major national coverage to bands that later would achieve great fame. (These 'sessions' are similar to 'Live Lounge' sessions recorded today for the station.) Another popular feature of his shows was the annual Festive Fifty countdown of his listeners' favourite records of the year.
  
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  Jon Hiseman
  Jon Hiseman (born Philip John Hiseman, 21 June 1944, Woolwich, London) is an English drummer, recording engineer, record producer and music publisher.
  In the mid-1960s Hiseman played in sessions such as the early Arthur Brown single, "Devil's Grip". In 1966 he replaced Ginger Baker in the Graham Bond Organisation and also played for a brief spell with Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames. He then joined John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers in 1968 playing on the iconic album 'Bare Wires'. In April 1968 he left to form what has been critically claimed as the "seminal" jazz rock/progressive rock band, Colosseum. Colosseum disbanded in November 1971, although Hiseman later formed Colosseum II with Don Airey and Gary Moore in 1975.
  Between these two versions of Colosseum, Hiseman formed the band Tempest with Allan Holdsworth, Paul Williams and Colosseum bandmate Mark Clarke. Ollie Halsall joined the band temporarily making the band a quintet but Holdsworth left the group along with Williams, leaving Halsall to handle all guitar and vocal duties.
  
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  Karl Jenkins
  Karl William Pamp Jenkins, CBE (born 17 February 1944) is a Welsh musician and composer.
  Jenkins was born and raised in the Gower village of Penclawdd, in the county of Swansea, South Wales. His father, who was a local schoolteacher, chapel organist and choirmaster, gave him his initial musical instruction. Karl Jenkins attended Gowerton Grammar School.
  Jenkins began his musical career as an oboist in the National Youth Orchestra of Wales. He went on to study music at Cardiff University, and then commenced postgraduate studies in London at the Royal Academy of Music, where he also met his wife and musical collaborator, Carol Barratt. He studied with Alun Hoddinott.
  For the bulk of his early career Jenkins was known as a jazz and jazz-rock musician, playing baritone and soprano saxophones, keyboards and oboe, an unusual instrument in a jazz context. He joined jazz composer Graham Collier's group and later co-founded the jazz-rock group Nucleus, which won first prize at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1970.
  
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  Kevin Ayers
  Kevin Ayers (born 16 August 1944 in Herne Bay, Kent) is an English singer-songwriter and was a major influential force in the English psychedelic movement. BBC DJ John Peel wrote in his autobiography that "Kevin Ayers' talent is so acute you could perform major eye surgery with it."
  Ayers was a founding member of the pioneering psychedelic band Soft Machine in the late 1960s, and was closely associated with the Canterbury scene. He has recorded a series of albums as a solo artist and over the years has 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. He now lives in the south of France. His most recent album was Unfairground, which was recorded in New York City, Tucson, Arizona, and London in 2006.
  Ayers is the son of BBC producer Rowan Ayers, but following his parents' split and his mother's subsequent marriage to a British civil servant, Ayers spent most of his childhood in Malaysia. 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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• Lyn Dobson
  Lyn Dobson is a British musician, noted as a jazz-rock flautist and saxophonist. He appeared with Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames and Manfred Mann in the mid 1960s, and then with Soft Machine and Keef Hartley, as well as playing on albums by Nick Drake and John Martyn. Dobson played the flute solo on Manfred Mann's "Pretty Flamingo".
  He released an album, Jam Sandwich, on Fresh Air Records in 1974.
  After the 1970s, he worked in theatre, dance, drama, multimedia, music teaching and music therapy. In the 1990s, Dobson recorded two albums with the Third Ear Band.
  
  
  
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  Mark Boyle
  Mark Boyle (11 May 1934 - 4 May 2005) was an artist born in Glasgow and known for his work in the cultural UK Underground of the 1950s around the Traverse Theatre, and exhibiting since 1985 with Joan Hills and their children Sebastian and Georgia as Boyle Family.
  The World Series (initiated in 1968) pieces involve the meticulous re-creation of randomly chosen areas of the surface of the Earth (using resin and fibreglass, as well as real materials from the site) and are exhibited widely across the world, including, in the past, the British Pavilion at the XXXIX Venice Biennale in 1979. The Hayward Gallery showed Beyond Image: Boyle Family in 1986. The National Gallery of Scotland held a major retrospective Boyle Family in 2003.
  While he was a prolific artist he may be best known for his work as a pioneer of light shows in music (including liquid light shows), producing light environments for Soft Machine and Jimi Hendrix during the 1960s.
  Amongst others he collaborated with George Brecht, Peter Schmidt, Cornelius Cardew, and John Tilbury.
  
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• Mark Charig
  Mark Charig (born 22 February 1944 in London) is a British trumpeter and cornetist.
  He was particularly active in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when he played in settings as diverse as Long John Baldry's group, Bluesology, Soft Machine, and Keith Tippett's group and his Centipede big band. Charig also featured on several King Crimson albums, being particularly prominent in a long solo on the title track of Islands, on the title track of Lizard and on the track 'Fallen Angel' on the 'Red' album.
  In the mid 1970s he also toured with the group Red Brass, which featured singer Annie Lennox. He also appeared with the Brotherhood of Breath and recorded with Mike Osborne, as well as releasing his own Pipedream LP on Ogun Records.
  He is also a member of the London Jazz Composers Orchestra. He now lives in Germany and is a member of the Wuppertal based Conduction Orchestra.
  More recently, he has recorded KJU: a CD of quartet improvisations with the group "Quatuohr"
  
  
  
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  Martin Sharp
  Martin Sharp (born 1942) is an Australian artist, underground cartoonist, songwriter and film-maker. Sharp has made contributions to Australian and international culture since the early 1960s, and is hailed as Australia's foremost pop artist.^{[citation needed]} His famous psychedelic posters of Bob Dylan, Donovan and others, rank as classics of the genre,^{[citation needed]} alongside the work of Rick Griffin, Hapshash and the Coloured Coat and Milton Glaser. His covers, cartoons and illustrations were a central feature of Oz magazine, both in Australia and in London. Martin co-wrote one of Cream's most famous songs, "Tales of Brave Ulysses", created the cover art for Cream's Disraeli Gears and Wheels of Fire albums, and in the 1970s, he became a champion of singer Tiny Tim, and of Sydney's embattled Luna Park.
  Martin was born in Sydney in 1942, and was educated at Cranbrook private school, where one of his teachers was the noted artist Justin O'Brien. In 1960, Martin enrolled at the National Art School at East Sydney, where he began his artistic career contributing to the short-lived student magazine The Arty Wild Oat, along with fellow artists Garry Shead and John Firth Smith. He also submitted cartoons to The Bulletin. In 1961, he enrolled for two terms in Architecture at Sydney University before returning to the NAS.
  
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  Michael Horovitz
  Michael Horovitz (born 1935) is an English poet, artist and translator.
  Michael Horovitz was the youngest of ten children who were brought to England from Nazi Germany by their parents, both of whom were part of a network of European-rabbinical families. Michael studied at Brasenose College, Oxford from 1954 to 1960.
  In 1959 he founded the New Departures publications while still a student, publishing William S. Burroughs, Samuel Beckett, and Stevie Smith. He continued to edit it for fifty years, coordinating many Live New Departures, Jazz Poetry SuperJams and Poetry Olympics festivals. Though initially associated with the British Poetry Revival, Horovitz became widely known on his appearance at the International Poetry Incarnation at the Royal Albert Hall on June 11, 1965, alongside Allen Ginsberg and Alexander Trocchi. In 1969 Penguin published his Children of Albion anthology. Introducing him to New York in 1970, Allen Ginsberg characterized him as a "Popular, experienced, experimental, New Jerusalem, Jazz Generation, Sensitive Bard".
  
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  Mick Farren
  Michael Anthony 'Mick' Farren (born 3 September 1943, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire) is an English journalist, author and singer associated with counterculture and the UK Underground.
  Farren was the singer with the proto-punk band The Deviants between 1967 and 1969, releasing three albums. During 1970 he released the solo album Mona – The Carnivorous Circus which also featured Steve Peregrin Took, John Gustafson and Paul Buckmaster, before ending his music business to concentrate on writing.
  During the mid-1970s, he briefly revived his musical career, releasing the EP Screwed Up, album Vampires Stole My Lunch Money and single "Broken Statue". The album featured fellow NME journalist Chrissie Hynde and Dr. Feelgood guitarist Wilko Johnson.
  He has sporadically done musical work since then, collaborating with Wayne Kramer on Who Shot You Dutch? and Death Tongue, Jack Lancaster on The Deathray Tapes and Andy Colquhoun on The Deviants albums Eating Jello With a Heated Fork and Dr. Crow.
  Aside from his own work, he has provided lyrics for various musician friends over the years. He has collaborated with Lemmy, co-writing "Lost Johnny" for Hawkwind, and "Keep Us on the Road" and "Damage Case" for Motörhead. With Larry Wallis, he co-wrote "When's the Fun Begin?" for the Pink Fairies and several tracks on Wallis' solo album Death in a Guitar Afternoon. He provided lyrics for the Wayne Kramer single "Get Some" during the mid-1970s, and continued to work with and for him during the 1990s.
  
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• Mike Lesser
  Mike Lesser (born 1943 in London) is a mathematical philosopher and political activist.
  The youngest member of the Committee of 100, he was sent, aged sixteen, to Wormwood Scrubs Prison along with most of the Committee. He has served two spells as contributor to London's Underground journal International Times.
  He was active in May 1968 in France.
  In 1992 he was the co-author, with Prof A. Wuensche, of the book The Global Dynamics Of Cellular Automata, published in the "Santa Fe Institute's Reference Volumes". The book is an atlas of emergent forms evolving from the apparently chaotic product of a set of iterated logical operations.
  He was assistant to the Directing Professor, P. Allen, at the Institute for Ecotechnological Research at Cranfield University. He is the co-author of several scientific papers on dynamical systems theory with Prof Allen.
  He worked on super computers at NASA's Goddard Jet Propulsion Lab, Washington, D.C., USA, and at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratories, Oxon, UK.
  
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• Mike Ratledge
  Michael Roland "Mike" Ratledge (born April 1943) is a British musician. Ratledge was part of the Canterbury scene and a long-time member of Soft Machine.
  Mike Ratledge was born in Maidstone, Kent. As a child he was educated in classical music, the only kind of music played in his parents' home. He learned to play the piano, and with his friend Brian Hopper, whom he had met at Simon Langton School in Canterbury, played classical piano and clarinet pieces.
  Ratledge also met Brian's younger brother Hugh, and Robert Wyatt. In 1961 he met Daevid Allen, who interested them in playing jazz. Through Cecil Taylor's piano pieces Ratledge became familiar with the music of Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis and John Coltrane. In 1963 he played in the Daevid Allen Trio.
  Unlike his friends, Ratledge wanted to further his education, and studied at University College, Oxford, where he earned a degree in psychology and philosophy. At the same time he attended music lessons, and was educated by avant-garde musicians Mal Dean and Rab Spall. After his graduation Ratledge intended to go to a university in the United States, but his application for a scholarship was filed too late.
  
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  Nicholas Albery
  Nicholas Albery (July 28, 1948 – June 3, 2001) social inventor and author, was the founder or leader of various projects related to the improvement of society, often known as the Alternative Society.
  While a student at St John's College, Oxford, he became involved with psychedelic and spiritual movements in San Francisco, dropped out of college and joined the anti-university in London. After a period in Haight Ashbury he returned to the UK and became involved with the newly started BIT Information Service quickly becoming a driving force in the development of wider activities for BIT so that it became a Social centre.
  In the aftermath of a violent attack by police on the Windsor Free Festival in 1974 - Nick, playwright Heathcote Williams and his partner Diana Senior successfully sued David Holdsworth, the Thames Valley Chief Constable for creating a riotous situation in which the police attacked the plaintiffs.
  Nicholas was a Minister for the Free State of Frestonia in North Kensington and a Green Party candidate in Notting Hill.
  
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• Phil Howard
  Phil Howard is an Australian jazz drummer best known for his brief stint with the jazz-rock group Soft Machine. Howard arrived in London from his native Australia in 1969, joining the band Caparius led by saxophonist Clive Stevens, alongside guitarist Peter Martin and bassist Neville Whitehead. The band's final line-up, in 1971, replaced Martin with future Isotope guitarist/leader Gary Boyle and pianist Dave MacRae.
  
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• Ray Warleigh
  Raymond 'Ray' Kenneth Warleigh (born 28 September 1938, in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia), is a leading UK-based alto saxophonist and flautist. Arriving in England in 1960, he quickly established himself as an in-demand session musician.
  He has played and recorded with major figures and bands of the UK jazz and blues scene, including Mike Oldfield, Alexis Korner, Tubby Hayes, Humphrey Lyttelton, Terry Smith, Ronnie Scott, Long John Baldry, Nick Drake, Charlie Watts, John Mayall, Allan Holdsworth, Soft Machine, Georgie Fame, Mike Westbrook, Dick Morrissey and Kenny Wheeler as well as accompanying visiting major foreign artists such as Champion Jack Dupree.
  
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  Ric Sanders
  Richard 'Ric' Sanders (born 8 December 1952, in Birmingham, Warwickshire) is a British violinist who has played in jazz-rock, folk rock, electric folk and folk groups, including Soft Machine and Fairport Convention.
  Sanders' first experience with a professional band was in the summer of 1972, touring Europe with classical/rock percussionist Stomu Yamash'ta's Red Buddha Theater. He later went on to play with jazz pianists Johnny Patrick and Michael Garrick. In the late 1970s he briefly toured as a member of the jazz-rock group Soft Machine and followed with a stint in The Albion Band. In 1981 he co-founded a recording studio, Morgreen Studios, with which he remained active for a few years. In 1984 he joined Fairport Convention and recorded his first album with them, Gladys' Leap, the following year. Since 2002, in addition to his work with Fairport, he has also been working regularly with his trio, known as the Ric Sanders Group, which features Vo Fletcher on guitar and Michael Gregory on drums and percussion.
  
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  Richie Unterberger
  Richie Unterberger (born 1962) is an American author and journalist whose focus is popular music and travel writing.
  Having worked as a DJ at WXPN in Philadelphia, he started reviewing records for Op magazine in 1983. From 1985 to 1991, Unterberger was an editor for Option.
  Since 1993, he has been a prolific contributor to allmusic, the on-line database of music biographies and album reviews for which he has written thousands of entries. (Many of Unterberger's on-line contributions have also found their way into the print versions of Allmusics.) Unterberger contributes to various local and national publications, including Mojo, Record Collector, Rolling Stone, Oxford American, and No Depression. He has written liner notes to dozens of CD reissues for labels like Rhino, Collectors' Choice, and Sundazed.
  Unterberger's books draw extensively upon first-hand interviews with musicians and their associates.
  Unterberger has given numerous talks on music and popular culture at public libraries throughout San Francisco, Berkeley, and San Mateo County, California. He is also a speaker at area bookstores, including The Booksmith in the Haight Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco.
  
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  Robert Wyatt
  Robert Wyatt (born Robert Wyatt-Ellidge, 28 January 1945, Bristol) is an English musician, and founding member of the influential Canterbury scene band Soft Machine, with a long and distinguished solo career. He is married to English painter and songwriter Alfreda Benge.
  Wyatt's mother was Honor Wyatt, a journalist with the BBC; his father, George Ellidge, was an industrial psychologist who joined the family only when Wyatt was about six. This extended family also included his half brother, actor Julian Glover, Honor Wyatt's son. Wyatt attended the Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys, Canterbury and as a teenager lived with his parents in Lydden near Dover, where he was taught the drums by visiting American jazz drummer George Neidorf.
  In 1962, Wyatt and Neidorf moved to Majorca where they stayed near the poet Robert Graves. The following year, Wyatt returned to England and joined the Daevid Allen Trio with Daevid Allen and Hugh Hopper. Allen subsequently left for France and Wyatt and Hopper formed The Wilde Flowers with Kevin Ayers, Richard Sinclair and Brian Hopper. Wyatt was initially the drummer in the Wilde Flowers, but following the departure of Ayers, he also became lead singer.
  
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• Robin Farquharson
  Reginald "Robin" Farquharson (3 October 1930 – 1 April 1973) was an academic whose interest in mathematics and politics led him to work on game theory, which he wrote an influential analysis of voting systems in his doctoral thesis, later published as Theory of Voting.
  Farquharson diagnosed himself as suffering from bipolar disorder (manic depression), and episodes of mania made it difficult for him to obtain a permanent position at a university and also resulted in him losing commercial employment. In later years, Farquharson dropped out of mainstream society, and became a prominent counter-cultural figure in late-60s London. Farquharson wrote an account of his unconventional life in his 1968 book, Drop Out!, in which he described a week of being homeless in London. In 1973 Robin Farquharson died from the burns associated with an arson, for which two persons were convicted of unlawful killing.
  Robin Farquharson also studied at the Sorbonne in Paris.
  Whilst studying as an undergraduate at Oxford Farquharson was a contemporary of John Searle, Rupert Murdoch, and Sir Michael Dummett
  
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• Roy Babbington
  Roy Babbington (born 8 July 1940 in Kempston, Bedfordshire, England) is a rock and jazz bassist. He became well known for being a member of the Canterbury scene progressive rock/jazz fusion band Soft Machine.
  Babbington started his musical career in 1958, playing double bass in local jazz bands. After moving to London in 1969, he joined the band Delivery, one of the side roots of the Canterbury scene with Phil Miller, Pip Pyle and Lol Coxhill. Also, he began to work as a session musician with jazz/fusion musicians like Michael Gibbs and The Keith Tippett Group (including Elton Dean), appearing on their albums You Are Here... I Am There (1969) and Dedicated To You But You Weren't Listening (1970) as well as in Tippett's big band project Centipede (1971) and on Dean's album Just Us. When Delivery disbanded in 1971 after an album with Carol Grimes titled Fools Meeting, Babbington joined Nucleus.
  He contributed to albums by Alexis Korner, folk singer Harvey Andrews, Mike d'Abo, Chris Spedding and was a part time member of the bands "Schunge", Solid Gold Cadillac (with Mike Westbrook and Spedding among others) and Ovary Lodge.
  
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  Sid Rawle
  Sidney William "Sid" Rawle (1 October 1945 – 31 August 2010) was a British campaigner for peace and land rights, free festival organiser, and a former leader of the London squatters movement. Rawle was known to British tabloid journalists as 'The King of the Hippies', not a title he ever claimed for himself, but one that he did eventually co-opt for his unpublished autobiography.
  He was born at Bridgwater, Somerset, and was the son of a horse-dealer on Exmoor, known to locals as "Dealer Rawle". His parents separated when he was a child. He was raised by his father and educated at Exton Village School and Minehead Comprehensive School. Dyslexia hampered his education, leading to him dropping out of school. He then lived for a time with his mother in Slough, where he worked as a park attendant, became active in his trade union and radical politics, and organised a strike in a local factory and a love-in in the municipal gardens.
  After spending some time in St Ives, Cornwall, in the mid-1960s, he moved to London and became involved in the alternative scene. He was noted in those circles for his refusal to take drugs. Initially involved with a group called Tribe Of The Sun, he formed the Hyde Park Diggers who campaigned on the issues of land use and land ownership, concerns that were central to the rest of his life's actions. He formed the Digger Action Movement with Barry Norcott and John Gillatt, which brought him into contact with John Lennon. In 1970, Lennon invited Rawle to establish a commune on Dorinish, a small island in Clew Bay, Ireland, which Lennon had owned since 1967. After surviving Atlantic storms, the commune eventually disbanded in 1972 after a fire destroyed their main stores tent. Lennon did contribute money towards Rawle's communes and other projects, and was reputed to have financed the film Winstanley, about Gerrard Winstanley, a charismatic leader of the Diggers movement, and in which Rawle had a role as a Ranter, which suited him admirably.
  
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  Soft Machine
  Soft Machine were an English rock band from Canterbury, named after the book The Soft Machine by William S. Burroughs. They were one of the central bands in the Canterbury scene, and helped pioneer the progressive rock genre. Though they achieved little commercial success, they are considered by Allmusic to be "one of the more influential bands of their era, and certainly one of the most influential underground ones."
  Soft Machine (billed as The Soft Machine up to 1969) were formed in mid-1966 by Robert Wyatt (drums, vocals), Kevin Ayers (bass, guitar, vocals), Daevid Allen (guitar) and Mike Ratledge (organ) plus, for the first few gigs only, American guitarist Larry Nowlin. Allen, Wyatt and future bassist Hugh Hopper had first played together in the Daevid Allen Trio in 1963, occasionally accompanied by Ratledge. Wyatt, Ayers and Hopper had been founding members of the Wilde Flowers, later incarnations of which would include future members of another Canterbury band, Caravan.
  
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• Stephen Abrams
  Stephen Irwin Abrams (b. July 15, 1938, Chicago, Illinois) is an American scholar of parapsychology and a drug policy activist. He is best known for sponsoring and authoring the full page advertisement petitioning for cannabis law reform that appeared in The Times on 24 July 1967. Abrams is a long-time resident of the United Kingdom.
  Abrams was an Advanced Student of St. Catherine's College at Oxford University from 1960 to 1967. He headed a parapsychological laboratory in the University's Department of Biometry, investigating extrasensory perception.
  
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  Steve Peregrin Took
  Steve Peregrin Took (born Stephen Ross Porter, 28 July 1949, Eltham, died 27 October 1980, Ladbroke Grove) was an English musician. He is best known for his membership of the duo Tyrannosaurus Rex with Marc Bolan. After breaking with Bolan, he concentrated on his own singer-songwriting activities, variously as a solo artist or as a frontman for several bands.
  Took was born Stephen Ross Porter in Eltham, London on 28 July 1949. He took his name from the hobbit Peregrin Took in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. At the age of 17, having played drums for some months with a mod band named The Waterproof Sparrows, he answered an advert in Melody Maker for the electric band that Marc Bolan was forming following his departure from John's Children. Simon Napier-Bell, manager of John's Children and subsequently Bolan, recalled of Bolan: "He got a gig at the Electric Garden then put an ad in Melody Maker to get the musicians. The paper came out on Wednesday, the day of the gig. At 3 o-clock he was interviewing musicians, at five he was getting ready to go on stage.... It was a disaster. He just got booed off the stage."
  
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  Storm Thorgerson
  Storm Thorgerson (born 1944) is an English graphic designer, known for his work for rock bands such as Scorpions, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, 10cc, Dream Theater, The Mars Volta, Muse, Umphrey's McGee, The Cranberries, and Biffy Clyro.
  Storm Thorgerson was born in Potters Bar, which was in Middlesex at the time and is now in Hertfordshire. He was a key member of the British graphic art group Hipgnosis, and designed many of their most famous single and album covers. Of late, he runs a design studio called StormStudios - a loose group of freelancers. The current line up includes - Rupert Truman (Photographer), Peter Curzon (Designer), Finlay Cowan (Designer and Illustrator), Daniel Abbott (Designer and Artist), Lee Baker (Designer, Retoucher and Artist), Jerry Sweet (Designer) along with Storm's Personal Assistant, Laura Truman (Prints) and Charlie Barnes (when she is not one the other side of the World).
  Perpaps Thorgerson's most famous designs are those for Pink Floyd. His design for The Dark Side of the Moon has been called one of the greatest album covers of all time. (Designed by Thorgerson, the cover itself was drawn by Hipgnosis designer George Hardie.) Many of his designs are notable for their surreal elements. He often places objects out of their traditional contexts, especially with vast spaces around them, to give them an awkward appearance while highlighting their beauty. To quote Thorgerson, "I like photography because it is a reality medium, unlike drawing which is unreal. I like to mess with reality...to bend reality. Some of my works beg the question of is it real or not?"
  
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• Stu Calver
  Stu Calver was a British musician who died in October 2000 at the age of 54. He is best known for his work as a backing vocalist with the singer Cliff Richard. Stu Calver had an incredible vocal range, which was remarkable given that he was a cystic fibrosis sufferer.
  
  
  
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  Syd Barrett
  Roger Keith "Syd" Barrett (6 January 1946 – 7 July 2006), was an English singer-songwriter, guitarist and painter, best remembered as a founder member of the band Pink Floyd. He was the lead vocalist, guitarist and primary songwriter during the band's psychedelic years, providing major musical and stylistic direction in their early work, including their name. He left the group in 1968 amid speculations of mental illness exacerbated by drug use, and was briefly hospitalised.
  Besides being a pioneer in psychedelic rock with his expressive guitar playing and imaginative compositions, Barrett was also a pioneer in the space rock and psychedelic folk genres. He was active in music for only about seven years, recording four singles, the debut album (and contributed to the second one), plus several unreleased songs with Pink Floyd; and a single and two albums (plus a third one of unreleased tracks/alternate takes), as a solo musician, before going into self-imposed seclusion lasting more than thirty years.
  
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  Tariq Ali
  Tariq Ali (Punjabi, Urdu: طارق علی), (born 21 October 1943), is a British Pakistani military historian, novelist, journalist, filmmaker, public intellectual, political campaigner, activist, and commentator. He is a member of the editorial committee of the New Left Review and Sin Permiso, and regularly contributes to The Guardian, CounterPunch, and the London Review of Books.
  He is the author of several books, including Pakistan: Military Rule or People's Power (1970), Can Pakistan Survive? The Death of a State (1991), Pirates Of The Caribbean: Axis Of Hope (2006), Conversations with Edward Said (2005), Bush in Babylon (2003), and Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity (2002), A Banker for All Seasons (2007), The Duel (2008) and The Obama Syndrome (2010).
  Ali was born and raised in Lahore. The city was part of British India at the time of his birth in 1943, but became part of the newly independent nation of Pakistan four years later. He is the son of journalist Mazhar Ali Khan and activist mother Tahira Mazhar Ali Khan (daughter of Sir Sikandar Hyat Khan who led the Unionist Muslim League and was later Prime Minister of the Punjab from 1937–1942).
  
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• Theo Travis
  Theo Travis (born on July 7, 1964 in Birmingham, England) is a British saxophonist and flautist.
  Travis received his degree in music from the University of Manchester specialising in the works of Shostakovich. He is well respected on the British jazz scene and has made ten albums as leader, composing and arranging most of the material. He has also worked with Robert Fripp, Gong, Porcupine Tree, The Tangent, Bill Nelson, Bass Communion, No-Man, Steven Wilson, David Sylvian, Harold Budd, John Foxx, Burnt Friedman and Dave and Richard Sinclair. Since 1999, he has recorded with bassist Dave Sturt and varying guest musicians in the band Cipher and, in 2006, he joined Soft Machine Legacy, a project based on personnel and works of the band Soft Machine, replacing the late reedsman Elton Dean. Since 2008 he has worked with guitarist Robert Fripp in the duo Travis and Fripp. In 2009/2010 they performed 21 concerts together, and they have released 2 CDs to date (on the Panegyric label) as well as 3 live concerts as downloads through DGMLive, 2 of them also on vinyl (Tonefloat). Travis has also worked extensively with Steven Wilson, performing on 15 of his records and with Wilson mixing 6 of Travis' releases. Travis appears extensively as featured soloist on Wilson's Grammy nominated album Grace for Drowning, and is part of his touring live band. He is of significance to the worlds of jazz, ambient music and progressive rock in the United Kingdom.
  
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• Tony Rivers
  Tony Rivers (born Douglas Anthony Thompson, 21 December 1940, Shildon, County Durham) is an English singer, best known for singing with the groups Tony Rivers and the Castaways and Harmony Grass. He also sang on albums by Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel, Roger Daltrey, Shakin' Stevens and Cliff Richard.
  Rivers went to Raine's Foundation School in Bethnal Green. After working at Butlins' Holiday Camp in Clacton, he joined a group called 'The Cutaways' and they became 'Tony Rivers and the Castaways'. They recorded six singles for EMI between 1963 and 1966, but did not have a hit. In 1968 the band disbanded and Rivers formed Harmony Grass with former bandmates. Their single "Move in a Little Closer Baby" reached #24 on the UK Singles Chart in January 1969. They released one album, This Is Us, on RCA, and gave concerts in the UK (including at London's Marquee Club). Rivers left to go solo in 1970.
  Rivers started to do session work and performed many cover versions on the Top of the Pops records. He sang and arranged with/for Cliff Richard throughout the 1970s up to the late 1980s going on world tours and assisting with the production of records for Richard during that period. Rivers also worked on recordings and hits for musicians as diverse as Steve Harley, Shaking Stevens, Sheena Easton, Soft Machine, UFO, Pink Floyd (The Final Cut), The Who and others. He is the voice of West Ham United F.C. for their hit version of "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles" and the voice leading the Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? theme.
  
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  Ubi Dwyer
  Bill 'Ubi' Dwyer or William Ubique Dwyer (21 January 1933 – 13 October 2001) was an anarchist activist in New Zealand, Australia, England and his native Ireland best known as the originator and principal organiser of the Windsor Free Festival.
  In the mid 1950s, Bill Dwyer moved to Aotearoa/NZ from Ireland. Whilst there he was introduced to anarchism by an English ex-pat and became very active in politics. He lived in NZ from the mid 1950s to 1966, and left behind him a series of legendary events. Dwyer did things like pass no confidence motions in the leadership of the Wellington Watersiders Union and the Victoria University Students Union, and was convicted for calling the Queen a bludger whilst speaking in Auckland in 1966.
  Dwyer moved to Sydney in 1966, selling cheap LSD in Sydney to finance anarchist activities. He became an exponent of psychedelic anarchism, believing acid to be a liberating substance. He was sent to prison in 1968 for selling LSD, and with the Australian government seeing him as a dangerous criminal, he was deported to Ireland in 1969.
  
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  Wally Hope
  Wally Hope (1947–1975) was a name by which Phillip Russell (born Alexander Graham Russell on 9 August 1947) was known.
  Phil was a visionary and a free-thinker, whose life has had a profound influence on many in the culture of the UK Underground and beyond. He was an important figure in what may loosely be described as 'the organisation' of the Windsor Free Festival from 1972 to 1974, as well providing the impetus for the embryonic Stonehenge Free Festival. It is believed that he was born into a wealthy family, and was due to inherit a considerable sum when he attained the age of 30 years; his guardian was reportedly the BBC radio and television announcer John Snagge^{[citation needed]}.
  While in London during the early 1970s, he fell in with a group called the Dwarves, taking their name from the Dutch Provo group the Kabouters. Described as “a kind of Notting Hill version of the Yippies in America: a joke-prankster group,” he adopted the name "Wally Hope" for himself, under which he would acquire the status of countercultural folk hero. The name Wally derived from a popular festival cry (a kind of “Everyman” joke that arose when the crowd began echoing the name of a lost dog being summoned by his owner at the last Isle of Wight Festival) and he had the word “Hope” embroidered on a shirt that “became his trademark: a riot of spectacular colour with the eye of Horus in the middle banked by a rainbow.”
  
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• Part I: Fanfare
• Part I: All White
• Part I: Link 1/Link 2
• Part I: 37½
• Part I: Link 3
• Part I: Riff
• Part II: Down the Road
• Part II: Link 3a
• Part II: Stanley Stamp's Gibbon Album
• Part II: Chloe and the Pirates
• Part II: Gesolreut
• Part II: E.P.V.
• Part II: Link 4
• Part II: Stumble
• Part II: One Across
• Part II: Riff II

• All White
• Drop
• M C
• As If
• L B O
• Pigling Bland
• Bone
• All White (take 2)

• Teeth
• Kings and Queens
• Fletcher's Blemish
• Virtually, Part 1
• Virtually, Part 2
• Virtually, Part 3
• Virtually, Part 4

• Nettle Bed
• Carol Ann
• Day's Eye
• Bone Fire
• Tarabos
• D.I.S.
• Snodland
• Penny Hitch
• Block
• Down the Road
• The German Lesson
• The French Lesson

• Facelift
• Slightly All the Time
• Moon in June
• Out-Bloody-Rageous

• The Floating World
• Bundles
• Land of the Bag Snake
• Ealing Comedy
• The Man Who Waved at Trains
• Peff
• North Point
• Hazard Profile, Part 1
• J.S.M.
• Riff III
• Song of Aelous
• Endgame
• Penny Hitch (Coda)

• Clarence in Wonderland
• We Know What You Mean
• Bossa Nova Express
• Hope for Happiness
• Disorganisation
• We Did It Again
• Why Are We Sleeping?
• I Should've Known
• That's How Much I Need You Now
• I Should've Known
• A Certain Kind

• Facelift
• Virtually
• Out-Bloody-Rageous
• Neo-Caliban Grides
• Teeth
• Slightly All the Time
• Eamonn Andrews
• Esther's Nose Job
• Slightly All the Time / Noisette

• Feelin' Reelin' Squeelin'
• Love Makes Sweet Music
• Hope for Happiness
• Joy of a Toy
• Hope for Happiness (reprise)
• We Did It Again
• Plus Belle qu'une Poubelle
• Why Are We Sleeping?
• Pataphysical Introduction, Part One
• A Concise British Alphabet, Part One
• Hibou, Anemone and Bear
• A Concise British Alphabet, Part Two
• Hulloder
• As Long as He Lies Perfectly Still
• Dedicated to You but You Weren't Listening
• Out-Bloody-Rageous
• Moon in June

• Bundles
• Land of the Bag Snake
• Out of Season
• The Man Who Waved at Trains
• JVH
• The Floating World
• Ban Ban Caliban
• Sideburn
• Hazard Profile Part 1
• Hazard Profile Part 2
• Hazard Profile Part 3
• Hazard Profile Part 4
• Hazard Profile Part 5
• Song of Aeulus
• Sign of Five

• Eanmonn Andrews
• Mousetrap
• Noisette
• Backwards
• Mousetrap (reprise)
• Hibou Anemone & Bear

• Slightly All the Time
• Out-Bloody-Rageous
• Eamonn Andrews
• Mousetrap
• Noisette
• Backwards.
• Moustrap (Reprise)
• Hibou Anemone & Bear

• Hulloder
• Dada Was Here
• Thank You Pierrot Lunaire
• Have You Ever Been Green?
• Pataphysical Introduction, Part II
• As Long as He Lies Perfectly Still
• Fire Engine Passing With Bells Clanging
• Hibou, Anemone and Bear
• Fire Engine
• Facelift
• Moon in June

• Clarence in Wonderland
• We Know What You Mean
• Certain Kind
• Hope for Happiness
• Strangest Scene (AKA Lullaby Letter)
• Facelift / Mousetrap / Noisette / Backwards / Mousetrap Reprise
• The Moon in June
• Instant Pussy
• Slightly All the Time / Out Bloody Rageous / Eamonn Andrews

• As If
• Drop
• Welcome to Frillsville
• Fanfare / All White / MC / Drop
• Stanley Stamp's Gibbon Album
• Hazard Profile, Part 1

• Facelift (1970)
• Moon in June
• Esther's Nose Job
• Facelift (1969)
• Hibou, Anemone and Bear
• Moon in June (demo)

• Eamonn Andrews
• Mousetrap
• Noisette
• Backwards
• Mousetrap (reprise)
• Hibou, Anemone and Bear
• Moon in June
• 12/8 Theme
• Esther's Nose Job
• We Did It Again

• Teeth
• Kings and Queens
• Fletcher's Blemish
• Virtually, Part 1
• Virtually, Part 2
• Virtually, Part 3
• Virtually, Part 4
• All White
• Drop
• M C
• As If
• LBO
• Pigling Bland
• Bone

• Facelift
• Virtually
• Slightly All the Time
• Fletcher's Blemish
• Neo-Caliban Grides
• Out-Bloody-Rageous
• Eamonn Andrews
• All White
• Kings and Queens
• Teeth
• Pigling Bland

• Facelift (excerpt)
• Moon in June (excerpt)
• Out-Bloody-Rageous
• Facelift
• Fire Engine Passing With Bells Clanging
• Pig
• Orange Skin Food
• A Door Opens and Closes
• 10:30 Returns to the Bedroom
• Pigling Bland
• 10:30 Returns to the Bedroom (reprise)

• Spaced One
• Spaced Two
• Spaced Three
• Spaced Four
• Spaced Five
• Spaced Six
• Spaced Seven

• Over 'n' Above
• Lotus Groves
• Isle of the Blessed
• Panoramania
• Behind the Crystal Curtain
• Palace of Glass
• Hot-Biscuit Slim
• (Black) Velvet Mountain
• Sly Monkey
• 'A Lot of What You Fancy...'

• Plain Tiffs
• All White
• Slightly All the Time
• Drop
• M.C.
• Out-Bloody-Rageous

• Fanfare
• All White
• Slightly All the Time
• M.C.
• Drop
• Stumble
• L.B.O.
• As If
• Riff

• Bundles - Hazard Profile Part 1
• Bundles - Hazard Profile Part 2
• Bundles - Hazard Profile Part 3
• Bundles - Hazard Profile Part 4
• Bundles - Hazard Profile Part 5
• Bundles - The Man Who Waved At Trains
• Bundles - Peff
• Bundles - Four Gongs Two Drums
• Softs - Ban Ban Caliban
• Softs - Song Of Aeolus
• Softs - Aubade
• Softs - Second Buncle
• Softs - Kayoo
• Softs - Camden Tandem
• Softs - Nexus
• Softs - One Over The Eight
• Softs - Etika
• Alive and Well - Puffin
• Alive and Well - Huffin
• Alive and Well - The Nodder
• Alive and Well - Soft Space

• Moon in June
• Esther's Nose Job
• Moustrap, Noisette, Backwards, Mousetrap Reprise
• Slightly All the Time, Out-Bloody-Rageous, Eamonn Andrews

• Hazard Profile, Part 1
• Hazard Profile, Part 2
• Hazard Profile, Part 3
• Hazard Profile, Part 4
• Hazard Profile, Part 5
• Gone Sailing
• Bundles
• Land of the Bag Snake
• The Man Who Waved at Trains
• Peff
• Four Gongs Two Drums
• The Floating World

• Hope for Happiness
• Joy of a Toy
• Hope for Happiness (reprise)
• Why Am I So Short?
• So Boot If at All
• A Certain Kind
• Save Yourself
• Priscilla
• Lullabye Letter
• We Did It Again
• Plus Belle qu'une Poubelle
• Why Are We Sleeping?
• Box 25/4 Lid
• Pataphysical Introduction, Part I
• A Concise British Alphabet, Part I
• Hibou, Anemone and Bear
• A Concise British Alphabet, Part II
• Hulloder
• Dada Was Here
• Thank You Pierrot Lunaire
• Have You Ever Bean Green?
• Pataphysical Introduction, Part II
• Out of Tunes
• As Long as He Lies Perfectly Still
• Dedicated to You but You Weren't Listening
• Fire Engine Passing With Bells Clanging
• Pig
• Orange Skin Food
• A Door Opens and Closes
• 10:30 Returns to the Bedroom

• White Kite
• EOS
• Odds Bullets and Blades, Part I
• Odds Bullets and Blades, Part II
• Song of the Sunbird
• Puffin
• Huffin
• Number Three
• The Nodder
• Surrounding Silence
• Soft Space

• Love Makes Sweet Music
• Feelin' Reelin' Squeelin'
• Memories
• She's Gone
• Why Am I So Short? / So Boot If at All / A Certain Kind
• We Did It Again / Plus Belle Qu'une Poubelle / Why Are We Sleeping?
• A Concise British Alphabet, Part 2 / Hullo Der / Dada Was Here / Thank You Pierrot Lunaire / Have You Ever Been Grean? / Pataphysical Introduction, Part 2
• As Long as He Lies Perfectly Still
• Dedicated to You but You Weren't Listening

• That's How Much I Need You Now
• Save Yourself
• I Should've Known
• Jet-Propelled Photograph
• When I Don't Want You
• Memories
• You Don't Remember
• She's Gone
• I'd Rather Be With You

• Crunch
• Pavan
• Jombles
• A Little Floating Music
• Hi-Power
• Little Miss B
• Splot
• Rubber Riff
• Sam's Short Shuffle
• Melina
• City Steps
• Gentle Turn
• Porky
• Travelogy

• Aubade
• The Tale of Taliesin
• Ban Ban Caliban
• Song of Aeolus
• Out of Season
• Second Bundle
• Kayoo
• The Camden Tandem
• Nexus
• One Over the Eight
• Etika

• Pataphysical Introduction, Part 1
• A Concise British Alphabet, Part I
• Hibou, Anemone and Bear
• A Concise British Alphabet, Part 2
• Hullo Der
• Dada Was Here
• Thank You Pierrot Lunaire
• Have You Ever Bean Grean?
• Pataphysical Introduction, Part 2
• Out of Tunes
• As Long as He Lies Perfectly Still
• Dedicated to You but You Weren't Listening
• Fire Engine Passing With Bells Clanging
• Pig
• Orange Skin Food
• A Door Opens and Closes
• 10:30 Returns to the Bedroom

• Blind Badger
• Neo-Caliban Grides
• Out-Bloody-Rageous
• Eamonn Andrews
• All White
• Kings and Queens
• Teeth, Pigling Bland

• Hope for Happiness
• Joy of a Toy
• Hope for Happiness (reprise)
• Why Am I So Short
• So Boot If at All
• A Certain Kind
• Save Yourself
• Priscilla
• Lullabye Letter
• We Did It Again
• Plus Belle qu'une Poubelle
• Why Are We Sleeping ?
• Box 24/4 Lid

• Fanfare, All White, Between, Riff, 37 1/2
• Gesolreut, EPV, Lefty, Stumble, 5 from 13, Riff II
• The Soft Weed Factor
• Stanley Stamps Gibbon Album
• Chloe and the Pirates
• 1983

• Hulloder
• Dada Was Here
• Thank You Pierrot Lunaire
• Have You Ever Bean Green
• Pataphysical Introduction
• Hibou Anemone and Beer
• Pig
• Orange Skin Food
• A Door Opens and Closes
• 30 Returns to the Bedroom
• Facelift
• Moon in June
• Mousetrap
• Noisette
• Backwards
• Mousetrap Reprise
• As Long as He Lies Perfectly Still

• Hulloder
• Dada Was Here
• Thank You Pierrot Lunaire
• Have You Ever Bean Green?
• Pataphysical Introduction, Part 2
• As Long as He Lies Perfectly Still
• Fire Engine Passing With Bells Clanging
• Hibou, Anemone and Bear
• Fire Engine Passing With Bells Clanging (reprise)
• Pig
• Orange Skin Food
• A Door Opens and Closes
• 10:30 Returns to the Bedroom