Mike Ratledge, the founding keyboardist of influential prog rock band Soft Machine has died at the age of 81, guitarist John Etheridge confirmed.

Playing the piano at home, he would sometimes mimic the ... churchgoing parents would be heartbroken that he was joining a full-fledged rock band. But Mr. Hudson was intrigued by the band ...

The Band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994 and the Hall also acknowledged Hudson’s death with a long post on X calling him a “master of the organ, piano, accordion and ...