Kevin Ayers

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Acid-dropping, Hendrix-supporting, Burroughs-quoting, groupie-eschewing
Kevin Ayers has spent 40 years making music and evading fame. The founder of
Soft Machine talks to Jonathan Glancey, Friday July 4, 2003, The Guardian.

"(...) any English schoolchild suckled on the avant-garde "Canterbury sound"
of the 1960s - the jazz-folk-pop fusions of Soft Machine, Caravan, Egg,
Gong, Hatfield and the North and Kevin Ayers' Whole World - the Simon
Langton school in Canterbury was a kind of English Haight-Ashbury, a
happening centre of all things mystical, mythical, anti-establishment,
acid-laced, and musical."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/fridayreview/story/0,12102,990313,00.html