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Mike Ratledge

Acting

Biography

Mike Ratledge was a composer and keyboard player for the experimental prog-rock band Soft Machine.

Known For

Riddles of the Sphinx
4.8

In this avant-garde classic, protagonist Louise deals with a change in her lifestyle in which she must learn to negotiate domestic life and motherhood.

Riddles of the Sphinx

1977
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells Live at the BBC
9.2

Live-in-the-studio performance for the BBC, filmed on 30 November 1973, originally broadcast on BBC2 on 1 December, with a cast including Oldfield, his brother Terry (flute), Fred Frith (and other members of Henry Cow), Steve Hillage, Pierre Moerlen, Tom Newman, Mike Ratledge, Mick Taylor, Karl Jenkins and others.

Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells Live at the BBC

1973
The Bad Sister
5.3

Jane is the illegitimate daughter of a Scottish landowner. She is disowned and expelled from his estates, but although she settles down to a new life in London, she is still haunted by the memory of her childhood and her mother's mysterious death. In a trance, she sets out on dreamlike journeys in search of freedom and revenge.

The Bad Sister

1983
Crystal Gazing
7.0

Experimental drama set in London during the Thatcher administration involving four characters: Neil, a science-fiction illustrator; Kim, a woman rock musician; Vermilion, an analyst of satellite photography; and Julian, an old friend of the illustrator who has just finished his Ph.D thesis on the fairy-tales of Charles Perrault. Their four lives are closely interlinked as events happen to each of them.

Crystal Gazing

1982
Gong: Montserrat 1973 and Other Stories
N/A

A collection featuring rare Daevid Allen and Gong performances and short films. Moody, atmospheric live film of Gong onstage in a cathedral in Montserrat in 1973 with the classic line-up.

Gong: Montserrat 1973 and Other Stories

2006
Soft Machine: Alive in Paris 1970
6.5

This Video captures the Canterbury Sound legends Soft Machine live in France filmed at a concert for French television in 1970. The line up of the band at the time of this concert included, Mike Ratledge, Robert Wyatt, Hugh Hopper, Elton Dean and Lyn Dobson. The concert took place on the 2nd of March 1970 at the Theatre de la Musique in Paris.

Soft Machine: Alive in Paris 1970

1970