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Robert Wyatt

With his surreal songwriting, eerie delivery and experimental compositions, Robert Wyatt stands out as an eccentric, cult figure of the British music scene and a huge influence on the likes of Thom Yorke, Brian Eno and David Gilmour. Taught the drums as a child, Wyatt was a big figure of the post-psychedelic Canterbury Scene of the late-1960s, when he founded chaotic prog rockers Soft Machine and became notorious for his boozy hell raising with peers such as Keith Moon, Syd Barratt and Jimi Hendrix. His partying caught up with him, however, in 1973 when he fell from a fourth floo...