Robert Wyatt: Join The Professionals, Form A Rock Band…
Ian MacDonald, NME, 27 July 1974
YEAH, WELL – Robert Wyatt (fact) drummed with Soft Machine, led Matching Mole, and fell from a fourth-storey window in Maida Vale early last year, breaking his back and finishing up in a wheel-chair.
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