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Kevin Ayers

Kevin Ayers
Free concert at Hyde Park, 29 June 1974
Free concert at Hyde Park, 29 June 1974
Background information
Born(1944-08-16)16 August 1944
Herne Bay, Kent, England
Died18 February 2013(2013-02-18) (aged 68)
Montolieu, France
Genres
Occupation(s)Musician, singer-songwriter, record producer
Instruments
  • Vocals
  • guitar
  • bass guitar
Years active1960s–2013
Labels

Kevin Ayers (16 August 1944 – 18 February 2013) was an English singer-songwriter who was active in the English psychedelic music movement. Ayers was a founding member of the psychedelic band Soft Machine in the mid-1960s, and was closely associated with the Canterbury scene.[3] He recorded a series of albums as a solo artist and over the years worked with Brian Eno, Syd Barrett, Bridget St John, John Cale, Elton John, Robert Wyatt, Andy Summers, Mike Oldfield, Nico and Ollie Halsall, among others. After living for many years in Deià, Mallorca, he returned to the United Kingdom in the mid-1990s before moving to the south of France. His last album, The Unfairground, was released in 2007.[4] The British rock journalist Nick Kent wrote: "Kevin Ayers and Syd Barrett were the two most important people in British pop music. Everything that came after came from them."[5]

  1. ^ "Kevin Ayers biography". AllMusic.
  2. ^ Strauss, Neil (5 September 1996). "The Pop Life". The New York Times.
  3. ^ Turn on Your Mind: Four Decades of Great Psychedelic Rock, (Hal Leonard, 2003), ISBN 0-634-05548-8
  4. ^ The Unfairground liner notes (September 2006)
  5. ^ O'Hagan, Sean (20 February 2013). "Kevin Ayers obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 23 January 2015.

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