After leaving the band in acrimonious circumstances following the release of its fourth album he recorded two albums with his own group Matching Mole before the incident that was to change his life forever. The book also includes a foreword by the best selling author Jonathan Coe, a tireless champion of the so called “Canterbury Scene” which spawned Wyatt and others and whose novel “The Rotter’s Club” - later adapted for a successful TV series- borrowed its title from an album by Hatfield and The North.Īnyone likely to be reading this will probably already know that Wyatt first came to prominence as the drummer and vocalist with the progressive rock group Soft Machine. O’Dair is also head of the Popular Music course at Middlesex University and is one half of the electronic music duo Grasscut who have included covers of Wyatt material in their repertoire. His is a remarkable story and it has now been catalogued with painstaking detail in this highly readable authorised biography by the journalist, musician and educator Marcus O’ Dair, a regular contributor to Jazzwise Magazine as well as writing on music for the Guardian, the Independent and the Financial times. Somewhere along the line Robert Wyatt, born in 1945, unknowingly made the transition from wilful outsider to national treasure. “Different Every Time ? The Authorised Biography of Robert Wyatt”
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