Soft Machine
uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, December 1969
"INDEPENDENCE" and "freedom" are words much used today to justify any act from dossing down in Piccadilly to running naked through Trafalgar Square, but Soft Machine use these words with such liberal enthusiasm, that they don't give the impression of just quoting well-worn cliches.
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