Mike was the backbone of Soft Machine in the early years and a man with an absolutely incisive mind,” wrote Soft Machine's ...

Mike Ratledge, the keyboardist and a co-founder of English rock band Soft Machine, has died, the band’s guitarist John ...

Outside of Soft Machine, Ratledge also contributed to Syd Barrett’s The Madcap Laughs and former band mate Kevin Ayers’ Joy of a Toy. “Cosmically heady, unconventional to a fault ...