Daevid Allen
Christopher David Allen (13 January 1938 – 13 March 2015), better known as Daevid Allen, sometimes credited as Divided Alien, was an Australian poet, guitarist, singer, composer and performance artist. He was co-founder of progressive rock groups Soft Machine (in the UK, 1966) and Gong (in France, 1967).
Biography
Early years
In 1960, inspired by the Beat Generation writers he had discovered while working in a Melbourne bookshop, Allen travelled to Paris, where he stayed at the Beat Hotel, moving into a room recently vacated by Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky. While selling the International Herald Tribune around Le Chat Qui Pêche and the Latin Quarter, he met Terry Riley and also gained free access to the jazz clubs in the area.
In 1961 Allen travelled to England and rented a room at Lydden, near Dover, where he soon began to look for work as a musician. He first replied to a newspaper advertisement for a guitar player to join Dover-based group the Rolling Stones (no connection with the later famous band of that name) who had lost singer/guitarist Neil Landon, but did not join them. After meeting up with William S. Burroughs, and inspired by philosophies of Sun Ra, he formed free jazz outfit the Daevid Allen Trio ('Daevid' having been adopted as an affectation of David), which included his landlord's son, 16-year-old Robert Wyatt. They performed at Burroughs' theatre pieces based on the novel The Ticket That Exploded. In 1966, together with Kevin Ayers and Mike Ratledge, they formed the band Soft Machine, the name having come from the Burroughs novel The Soft Machine. Ayers and Wyatt had previously played in Wilde Flowers.
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ALBUMS
- Good Morning! released: 2007
- Bananamoon Obscura 12: Glissando Grooves released: 2006
- I Am Your Egg released: 2005
- Australia Aquaria released: 2001
- Eat Me Baby I'm a Jelly Bean released: 1999
- Alien in New York / Opium for the People released: 1996
- Banana Moon released: 1995
- DividedAlienPlaybax80 released: 1995
- Dreamin' a Dream released: 1995
- N'existe pas! released: 1994
- Live 1963 released: 1993
- Twelve Selves released: 1993
- Who's Afraid released: 1992
- Now Is the Happiest Time of Your Life released: 1977
- The Seven Drones released:
- Je ne fum' pas des bananes (with Bananamoon Band & Gong) released:
N'existe pas!
Released 1994- Professor Sharpstrings Says
- The Freedom of the City in a Suitable Box
- They Say They Say
- Something Tells Me
- It's a Fine Air for Fliss
- But It's Really Not Real
- Because Bar Room Philosophers
- 333
- No Other than the Mother Is My Song
- Theme from Hashish to Ashes
- The Turkeybirds Breakfast
- Rajneesh with Thanks
- Non God Will Not Go on or the Wrong Way to Be Right
- O Man You
Je ne fum' pas des bananes (with Bananamoon Band & Gong)
- Intro
- Pretty Miss Titty
- Rich Girl
- Un œuf for You
- My Mother's Gone to India/Hare Krishna/Time of the Green Banana/Remember the Name
- La belle cérébrale
- Est-ce que je suis (garçon ou fille)
- Hyp Hypnotise You
- Goldilox
- Why do You Come Knocking at My Door?
- Rock 'n' Roll Angel
- Why Are We Sleeping?
- French Garden
- French Garden (second version)
- Pretty Miss Titty
- Pretty Miss Titty (second version)
- Gong Song
- Je ne fume pas des bananes
- Je ne fume pas des bananes (second version)
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Time Of Your Life
by: Daevid AllenAnother turning point;
a fork stuck in the road.
Time grabs you by the wrist;
directs you where to go.
So make the best of this test
and don't ask why.
It's not a question
but a lesson learned in time.
It's something unpredictable
but in the end it's right.
I hope you had the time of your life.
So take the photographs
and still frames in your mind.
Hang it on a shelf
In good health and good time.
Tattoos of memories
and dead skin on trial.
For what it's worth,
it was worth all the while.
It's something unpredictable
but in the end it's right.
I hope you had the time of your life.
(music break)
It's something unpredictable
but in the end it's right.
I hope you had the time of your life.
It's something unpredictable
but in the end it's right.
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