Robert Wyatt
Robert Wyatt, London, April 2006
Background information
Birth name	Robert Wyatt-Ellidge
Born	January 28, 1945 (1945-01-28) (age 63) Bristol, England
Genre(s)	Jazz fusion, Progressive rock, Experimental
Occupation(s)	Musician, Composer
Instrument(s)	Percussion, Keyboards, Singing
Years active	1963 – present
Label(s)	Virgin, Rough Trade, Domino
Associated acts	The Wilde Flowers, Soft Machine, Matching Mole, Kevin Ayers, Henry Cow

Robert Wyatt (born Robert Wyatt-Ellidge, 28 January 1945, in Bristol) is an English musician, and founding member of the influential Canterbury scene band Soft Machine. Events 1077 - Walk to Canossa: The Excommunication of Henry IV Holy Roman Emperor is lifted Year 1945 ( MCMXLV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar Bristol ( ˈbrɪstəl is a city, Unitary authority and ceremonial county in South West England, west of London England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland A music genre is a categorical and typological construct that identifies musical sounds as belonging to a particular category and type of music that can be distinguished from other Fusion or more specifically jazz fusion or jazz rock, is a Musical genre that merges Jazz with elements of other styles of music particularly Progressive rock (often shortened to " progressive " " prog " or " prog rock " is a form of Rock music that evolved Experimental music is a term introduced by composer John Cage in 1955 A musician is a person who plays or writes Music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music An instrumentalist plays a A composer (literally meaning 'one who puts together' is a person who creates Music, usually in the medium of notation, for Interpretation and Performance A musical instrument is a device constructed or modified for the purpose of making Music. A keyboard instrument is any musical instrument played using a Musical keyboard. Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, which is often contrasted with Speech. In the Music industry, a record label can be a Brand and a Trademark associated with the Marketing of music recordings and Music Virgin Records is a British Record label founded by English entrepreneur Richard Branson, Simon Draper, and Nik Powell Rough Trade Records began as an Independent record label, based in London, England. The Wilde Flowers was a popular music group based in the vicinity of Canterbury, England, during Late 1964- June 1967 Soft Machine was an English rock band from Canterbury, named after the book The Soft Machine by William S Matching Mole was a UK Progressive rock band from the Canterbury scene best known for the song "O Caroline" Kevin Ayers (born 16 August 1944 in Herne Bay, Kent) is an English Songwriter and major influential force in the English Henry Cow were an English Avant-garde rock group, founded at Cambridge University in 1968 by multi-instrumentalists Fred Events 1077 - Walk to Canossa: The Excommunication of Henry IV Holy Roman Emperor is lifted Year 1945 ( MCMXLV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar Bristol ( ˈbrɪstəl is a city, Unitary authority and ceremonial county in South West England, west of London England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland A musician is a person who plays or writes Music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music An instrumentalist plays a The Canterbury scene (or Canterbury sound) is a term used to loosely describe the group of Progressive rock, Avant-garde and jazz musicians many of whom Soft Machine was an English rock band from Canterbury, named after the book The Soft Machine by William S He is married to English painter and songwriter Alfreda Benge. Alfreda Benge (born 1940 is a Lyricist and Illustrator. She has been married to Musician Robert Wyatt since 1974

Contents 1 Early life 2 Soft Machine and Matching Mole 3 Solo career 4 Recent years 4.1 "Wyatting" 5 Solo discography 5.1 Albums 5.2 EPs 5.3 Singles 6 Selected contributions to other people's recordings 7 Bibliography 8 References 9 External links

Early life

As a teenager, he lived with his parents in Lydden near Dover. Lydden is also the name of a hamlet in the Manston Kent civil parish Lydden is a Civil parish and small Village in the Dover district Dover is a town and major ferry port in the county of Kent, England. Here he was taught the drums by visiting American jazz drummer George Neidorf. A drum kit (also drum set or trap set) is a collection of Drums Cymbals and sometimes other Percussion instruments such as cowbells Jazz is an American Musical art form which originated in the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States

In 1962, Wyatt and Neidorf moved to Majorca where they stayed near the poet Robert Graves. Majorca ( Spanish and Mallorca is the largest island of Spain. Robert Graves (24 July 1895 &ndash 7 December 1985 was an English Poet, Translator and Novelist. The following year, Wyatt returned to England and joined the Daevid Allen Trio with Daevid Allen and Hugh Hopper. Daevid Allen (born January 13, 1938 in Melbourne, Australia) is an Australian Poet, Guitarist, Singer, Hugh C Hopper (born 29 April 1945, Canterbury, Kent, England) is a Progressive rock / ( fusion) Jazz Allen subsequently left for France and Wyatt and Hopper formed The Wilde Flowers with Kevin Ayers, Richard Sinclair and Brian Hopper. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. The Wilde Flowers was a popular music group based in the vicinity of Canterbury, England, during Late 1964- June 1967 Kevin Ayers (born 16 August 1944 in Herne Bay, Kent) is an English Songwriter and major influential force in the English Richard S Sinclair (born 6 June 1948 in Canterbury, England) is a Progressive rock bassist guitarist and vocalist who has been a member of several Brian Hopper (born January 3 1943, in Canterbury, Kent) is a British guitarist and saxophonist and brother of bassist Hugh Hopper Wyatt was initially the drummer in the Wilde Flowers, but following the departure of Ayers, he also became lead singer.

Soft Machine and Matching Mole

In 1966, the Wilde Flowers disintegrated, and Wyatt and Mike Ratledge formed the Soft Machine with Kevin Ayers and Daevid Allen. Soft Machine was an English rock band from Canterbury, named after the book The Soft Machine by William S Kevin Ayers (born 16 August 1944 in Herne Bay, Kent) is an English Songwriter and major influential force in the English Daevid Allen (born January 13, 1938 in Melbourne, Australia) is an Australian Poet, Guitarist, Singer, Here Wyatt both drummed and sang, an unusual combination for a stage rock band.

In 1970, after chaotic touring, three albums and increasing internal conflicts in Soft Machine, Wyatt released his first solo album, The End of an Ear, which combined his vocal and multi-instrumental talents with tape effects. The End of an Ear is the debut solo album by Soft Machine 's Robert Wyatt.

A year later, Wyatt left Soft Machine and, besides participating in the fusion bigband Centipede and drumming at the JazzFest Berlin's New Violin Summit, a live concert with violinists Jean-Luc Ponty, Don "Sugarcane" Harris, Michał Urbaniak and Nipso Brantner, guitarist Terje Rypdal, keyboardist Wolfgang Dauner and bassist Neville Whitehead^[1], formed his own band Matching Mole (a pun on "machine molle", French for 'Soft Machine'), a largely instrumental outfit. Fusion or more specifically jazz fusion or jazz rock, is a Musical genre that merges Jazz with elements of other styles of music particularly Centipede were a Jazz / Progressive rock / Canterbury sound Big band with more than 50 members organized and led by the British JazzFest Berlin (also known as the Berlin Jazz Festival) is a Jazz festival based in Berlin, Germany. Jean-Luc Ponty (born September 29, 1942, Avranches, France) is a virtuoso French Violinist and Jazz Composer Don "Sugarcane" Harris ( June 19, 1938 - November 30 (or December 1) 1999) was an American rock & roll Violinist Michał Urbaniak (born June 22, 1943) is a Polish jazz musician and composer born in Warsaw, playing mainly the Violin, Terje Rypdal (born 23 August 1947 in Oslo) is a Norwegian Guitarist and Composer. Neville Whitehead is a New Zealand Bassist and luthier who was an active member of the British jazz fusion community in the 1970s Matching Mole was a UK Progressive rock band from the Canterbury scene best known for the song "O Caroline" After two albums and a split, Matching Mole were about to embark on a third record when, on 1 July 1973, during an alcohol fueled party for Gong's Gilli Smyth and June Campbell Cramer (also known as Lady June) at the latter's Maida Vale home, an inebriated Wyatt fell from a third floor window. "July 1st" redirects here For the Ayumi Hamasaki song see H (song. Year 1973 ( MCMLXXIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the 1973 Gregorian calendar. Gong is a progressive / Psychedelic rock band formed by Australian Musician Daevid Allen. Gilli Smyth (born June 1, 1933 a musician who performed with the bands Gong, Mother Gong and Planet Gong as well as several solo albums He was paralysed from the waist down and subsequently confined to a wheelchair. Paraplegia is an impairment in motor and/or sensory function of the lower extremities A wheelchair is a wheeled Mobility device in which the user sits On 4 November that year, Pink Floyd performed two benefit concerts, in one day, at London's Rainbow Theatre, supported by Soft Machine, and compered by John Peel. Pink Floyd are London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. The Rainbow was a live Rock music venue in north London that opened in September 1971 with a concert by The Who, supported by Quiver and closed John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, OBE (30 August 1939 – 25 October 2004 known professionally as John Peel, was an English Disc jockey, radio The concerts raised a reported £10,000 for Wyatt.

Solo career

The injury led Wyatt to abandon the Matching Mole project, and his drumming. He promptly embarked on a solo-career, and with musician friends (including Mike Oldfield, the poet Ivor Cutler and Henry Cow guitarist Fred Frith), he released his acclaimed solo-album Rock Bottom. Michael Gordon Oldfield (born 15 May 1953 in Reading, Berkshire) is an English Multi-instrumentalist Musician Ivor Cutler (15 January 1923 &ndash 3 March 2006 was a Scottish Poet, Songwriter and Humorist. Henry Cow were an English Avant-garde rock group, founded at Cambridge University in 1968 by multi-instrumentalists Fred Fred Frith (born February 17, 1949) is an English Multi-instrumentalist, Composer and improvisor. Rock Bottom is the second solo album (the first post- Soft Machine) by Robert Wyatt. Later that same year he put out a single, a cover version of "I'm a Believer", which hit number 29 in the UK chart. In Popular music, a cover version, or simply cover, is a new rendition ( Performance or Recording) of a previously recorded commercially released " I'm a Believer " is a song composed by Neil Diamond and recorded by the band The Monkees in 1966 with the lead vocals by Micky Dolenz Both were produced by Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason. Nicholas Berkeley "Nick" Mason (born 27 January 1944 in Edgbaston, Birmingham, England) is the Drummer for Pink Floyd. There were strong arguments with the producer of Top of the Pops surrounding his performance of "I'm a Believer," on the grounds that his wheelchair-bound appearance 'was not suitable for family viewing', the producer wanting Wyatt to appear on a normal chair. Top of the Pops, also known as TOTP, was a long-running British music chart Television programme, made and broadcast Wyatt won the day and 'lost his rag but not the wheel chair', but gave a performance that could best be described as disgruntled.

His follow-up single, a reggae ballad remake of Chris Andrews's hit "Yesterday Man" was nearly released by Virgin, but at the last minute it was shelved due to "the boss at Virgin claiming that single was 'lugubrious', robbing Wyatt of a possible follow-up hit". Chris Andrews (born Christopher Frederick Andrews, 15 October 1942, Romford, East London, United Kingdom) is a Yesterday Man is a song written by Chris Andrews and also his debut single as solo singer released in 1965 ^[2]

Wyatt's next solo-album, Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard, was more jazz-led, with free jazz influences and nods to African music. Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard is the third solo album by Robert Wyatt. For the Ornette Coleman album after which this genre was named see Free Jazz A Collective Improvisation. The music of Africa is as vast and varied as the continent's many regions, nations and Ethnic groups Although there is no distinctly pan-African Guest musicians included Brian Eno on guitar, synthesizer and "direct inject anti-jazz ray gun". Brian Peter George St John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno (born 15 May 1948 commonly known as Brian Eno (ˈiːnoʊ is an English Musician, producer Rock Bottom was produced by Nick Mason and Wyatt would subsequently sing lead vocals on Mason's 1981, and first, solo album Fictitious Sports (with songwriting credits going to Carla Bley). Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason fronted the group who made the one-off self-titled album Nick Mason's Fictitious Sports in May 1981 in the UK and US Carla Bley, née Borg, (born May 11, 1936) is an American Jazz Composer, pianist, Organist and band

Throughout the rest of the 1970s, Wyatt guested with various acts, including Henry Cow (documented on their Henry Cow Concerts album), Hatfield and the North, Carla Bley, Michael Mantler, and Roxy Music guitarist Phil Manzanera, contributing lead vocals to lead track "Frontera", from Manzanera's 1975 solo debut Diamond Head. Henry Cow were an English Avant-garde rock group, founded at Cambridge University in 1968 by multi-instrumentalists Fred Henry Cow Concerts is a live double album by British Avant-garde rock group Henry Cow, recorded at concerts in Hatfield and the North was an experimental Canterbury scene Rock band that lasted from October 1972 to June 1975 with some reunions thereafter Carla Bley, née Borg, (born May 11, 1936) is an American Jazz Composer, pianist, Organist and band Michael Mantler (born August 10 1943) is an Austrian Trumpeter and Composer in new Jazz and contemporary music Roxy Music is an English Art rock group founded in the early 1970s by art school graduate Bryan Ferry ( vocals and keyboards) Phil Manzanera (born Philip Geoffrey Targett-Adams, 31 January 1951 in London, England) is a musician and Record producer. His solo work during the early 1980s was increasingly politicised, and Wyatt became a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain. The Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB was the largest Communist party in the United Kingdom, though it never became a mass party like the Communist parties of In 1982, his interpretation of Elvis Costello's Falklands War-inspired song "Shipbuilding", the last in a series of political cover-versions (collected as Nothing Can Stop Us), reached number 35 in the UK singles chart. Elvis Costello (born Declan Patrick MacManus 25 August 1954 is an English Musician and Singer-songwriter, with Irish ancestry The Falklands War (Guerra de las Malvinas/Guerra del Atlántico Sur also called the Falklands Conflict/Crisis, was fought in 1982 between Argentina and the " Shipbuilding " is a song written by singer/songwriter Elvis Costello and producer Clive Langer. Nothing Can Stop Us is a compilation album by Robert Wyatt released in 1982

In the late 1980s, after collaborations with other acts such as News from Babel as well as Japanese recording artist Ryuichi Sakamoto, he and his wife Alfreda Benge spent a sabbatical in Spain, before returning in 1991 with a comeback album Dondestan, considered by many to be his best work since Rock Bottom. News from Babel were an English Avant-garde rock group founded in 1983 by Chris Cutler, Lindsay Cooper, Zeena Alfreda Benge (born 1940 is a Lyricist and Illustrator. She has been married to Musician Robert Wyatt since 1974 Spain () or the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España is a country located mostly in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. His 1997 album Shleep was also highly acclaimed. Shleep is the eighth Album released in 1997 by Canterbury Scene survivor and Progressive rock legend Robert Wyatt.

In 1999 he collaborated with the Italian singer Cristina Donà on her second album Nido. Cristina Donà ( Rho, Italy, September 23, 1967) is an Italian Singer and Songwriter. NIDO (also written 'Nido' is a Powdered milk supplement manufactured by Nestlé. In the summer of 2000 her first EP Goccia was released and Wyatt made an appearance in the video of the title track.

Wyatt contributed the haunting "Masters of the Field", as well as "The Highest Gander", "La Forêt Rouge" and "Hors Champ" to the soundtrack of the acclaimed 2001 film Winged Migration. Le Peuple Migrateur (also known as Winged Migration in the United States and Canada or The Travelling Birds in the United Kingdom He can be seen in the DVD's Special Features section, and is praised by the film's composer Bruno Coulais as being a big influence in his younger days. Bruno Coulais (born 13 January 1954) is a French Composer, most widely known for his music on Film Soundtracks Coulais

The Tears for Fears song "I Believe" from Songs from the Big Chair (1985) is reportedly dedicated to Wyatt; the video features Roland Orzabal sitting shirtless in an arm chair for most of the video to mimic Wyatt's paralysis. Tears for Fears (sometimes informally abbreviated to TFF are " I Believe (A Soulful Re-Recording " is a single by the British band Tears for Fears. Songs from the Big Chair is the second Album by the British pop band Tears for Fears. Roland Jaime Orzabal de la Quintana (born 22 August 1961) is a British Musician, Songwriter and Record producer.

Recent years

In 2001, Wyatt was curator of the Meltdown festival, and sang "Comfortably Numb" during David Gilmour's performance at the festival, recorded on Gilmour's DVD David Gilmour in Concert. Meltdown is an annual English festival held in London, featuring a mix of music art performance and film " Comfortably Numb " is a song by the British progressive rock band Pink Floyd, which was released on the 1979 double album The Wall David Gilmour in Concert is a DVD of Pink Floyd Guitarist David Gilmour 's solo concert at the Royal Festival Hall,

In 2003, Wyatt put out his album Cuckooland which was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize. Cuckooland ranks alongside Shleep and Rock Bottom as one of Robert Wyatt's most successful works The Mercury Prize, formerly the Mercury Music Prize and currently known as the Nationwide Mercury Prize for Sponsorship reasons is an annual music prize

In 2004, Wyatt collaborated with Björk on the song "Submarine" which was released on her fifth album Medúlla. Björk Guðmundsdóttir (born 21 November 1965 is an Icelandic Singer-songwriter, Composer, actress and music producer. Medúlla, meaning "bone marrow" in Latin, is an Album by Icelandic singer/songwriter/musician Björk, which was released

"He lives in Louth, Lincolnshire and he has equipment in his bedroom where he records himself and his albums. Louth is a Market town within the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. We brought a G4 and Pro Tools and recorded it in like one afternoon. The Power Mac G4 is a series of Personal computers that was designed manufactured and sold by Apple between 1999 and 2004. Pro Tools is a Digital Audio Workstation platform for Mac OS and Microsoft Windows operating systems developed and manufactured by Digidesign He's such an extraordinary singer. Before he left, he insisted to give us a scale of his voice, where he sings all the tones – and he has the most amazing range, like 5 or 6 octaves. In Music, an octave ( is the the use of which is "common in most musical systems What's really interesting about his range is that each octave is of a totally different character. We actually ended up using that later for "Oceania", we used what he calls the 'Wyattron'. " Oceania " is a song by Icelandic singer Björk. It was formerly planned to be the first single release from Björk 's Medúlla " — Björk, XFM 25 August 2004

In 2006, Wyatt played with David Gilmour on Gilmour's new release On An Island, singing and playing cornet and percussion on "Then I Close My Eyes. Xfm is a brand of Commercial radio stations focused on Alternative music, primarily indie, and owned by GCap Media in the United Kingdom Events 1248 - The Dutch city of Ommen receives city rights and fortification rights from Otto III the "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " David Jon Gilmour CBE (born 6 March 1946 is an English Musician, best known as the Lead guitarist one of the lead Singers On an Island is the third solo album by David Gilmour, best known as a lead vocalist and guitarist for Pink Floyd. " Wyatt performed as a guest at Gilmour's series of Royal Albert Hall concerts, playing his cornet solo for this song. This is documented on the Remember That Night DVD and Blu-ray, released in 2007. Remember That Night is a live concert recording of Pink Floyd Guitarist David Gilmour 's solo concerts at the Royal Albert Hall in DVD (also known as " Digital Versatile Disc " or " Digital Video Disc " - see Etymology)is Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Wyatt also read passages from the novels of Haruki Murakami for Max Richter's album Songs from Before. is a popular contemporary Japanese Writer and Translator. His work has been described by the Virginia Quarterly Review as "easily accessible Max Richter (born 1966) is a German -born Composer, now living in the United Kingdom.

In 2006, Wyatt collaborated with Steve Nieve and Muriel Teodori on an opera "Welcome to the Voice". Steve Nieve (born Steven Nason 19 February 1958, in London, England) is a Keyboardist, best known for his work with Elvis Costello Wyatt interprets the character 'the Friend', both singing and playing pocket trumpet. "Welcome to the Voice" is an opera in one unique scene, on the street in front of an opera house. Robert's contribution to the recording was recorded at Phil Manzanera's home studio in North London. Phil Manzanera (born Philip Geoffrey Targett-Adams, 31 January 1951 in London, England) is a musician and Record producer. "Welcome to the Voice" is released in May on Deutsche Grammophon, and the recording features Robert Wyatt, Barbara Bonney, Sting, Amanda Roocroft, Elvis Costello, Nathalie Manfrino, Brodsky Quartet, Sara Fulgoni, Ned Rothenberg, Antoine Quessada, Marc Ribot, Steve Nieve and Muriel Teodori. Barbara Bonney (born April 14, 1956) is an American Soprano. Bonney was born in Montclair, New Jersey. Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner, CBE (born October 2, 1951) better known by his Stage name Sting, is a three time Academy Award Elvis Costello (born Declan Patrick MacManus 25 August 1954 is an English Musician and Singer-songwriter, with Irish ancestry The Brodsky Quartet is a British String quartet, in existence since 1972, though only Ian Belton and Jacqueline Thomas are original Sara Fulgoni is a British Mezzo-soprano. She graduated from the Royal Northern College of Music. Ned Rothenberg (b Boston, Massachusetts, September 15 1956 is an American multi-instrumentalist and composer Marc Ribot ( born 21 May 1954 in Newark New Jersey) is an American Guitarist and Composer. Steve Nieve (born Steven Nason 19 February 1958, in London, England) is a Keyboardist, best known for his work with Elvis Costello

On 23 June 2006 BBC Four broadcast a programme entitled "Free Will and Testament" which featured performance footage of Wyatt with other musicians including Ian Maidman and Liam Genocky, together with interviews with John Peel, Brian Eno, Annie Whitehead, Alfie and Robert Wyatt himself. Events 1180 - First Battle of Uji, starting the Genpei War in Japan 1305 - The Flemish Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. BBC Four is a BBC Television channel available to digital television ( Freeview, IPTV, satellite and cable) viewers in the ^[3]

In March 2007, it was announced that Wyatt was working on a new solo album entitled Comicopera. Comicopera is an album by Robert Wyatt released on 8th October 2007 available on both CD and double Vinyl formats (the vinyl's fourth side It was released in October 2007 on the Domino Records label, a large independent label housing such big indie stars as Arctic Monkeys, Pavement, Neutral Milk Hotel and Elliott Smith. Domino Recording Company, generally known as Domino Records, is an Independent record label based in London. Arctic Monkeys are a British Indie band from High Green, a suburb of Sheffield. Pavement was an American Indie rock band in the 1990s Although they experienced only moderate commercial success they achieved a significant cult Neutral Milk Hotel was an American indie Folk band. The band's chief Songwriter, Jeff Mangum, played with a number of other Steven Paul "Elliott" Smith (August 6 1969 – October 21 2003 was an American Singer-songwriter and Musician.

"Wyatting"

Recently the verb "Wyatting", named obviously after Robert Wyatt, appeared in some blogs and music magazines to describe the practice of playing weird tracks on a pub jukebox to annoy the other pub goers. The name was coined by Carl Neville, a 36-year-old English teacher from London, because one of the favourites LPs for this effect is Dondestan.

Robert Wyatt was quoted in The Guardian: as saying "I think it's really funny," and "I'm very honoured at the idea of becoming a verb. The Guardian (until 1959 The Manchester Guardian) is a British Newspaper owned by the Guardian Media Group. "^[4] However, when asked if he would ever try it himself, he said "Oh no. I don't really like disconcerting people. Although often when I try to be normal I disconcert anyway. "^[5]

Solo discography

Albums

• The End of an Ear (1970)
• Rock Bottom (1974)
• Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard (1975)
• Nothing Can Stop Us (1981, Singles compilation; 1983 Australian edition includes "Shipbuilding")
• The Animals Film (1982, Soundtrack)
• Old Rottenhat (1985)
• Dondestan (1991)
• Flotsam Jetsam (1994)
• A Short Break (1996, EP)
• Shleep (1997)
• Dondestan (Revisited) (1998)
• Solar Flares Burn for You (2003)
• Cuckooland (2003)
• His Greatest Misses (2004, compilation)
• Theatre Royal Drury Lane 8th September 1974 (2005)
• Comicopera (2007)

EPs

• The Peel Sessions (1974, "Alifib"/"Soup Song"/"Sea Song"/"I'm a Believer")
• Work In Progress (1984, "Biko"/"Amber and the Amberines"/"Yolanda"/"Te Recuerdo Amanda")
• 4 Tracks EP (1984, "I'm a Believer"/"Yesterday Man"/"Team Spirit"/"Memories")
• Airplay (2002, "Fridge"/"When Access Was a Noun "/"Salt-Ivy"/"Signed Curtain")

Singles

• "I'm a Believer"/"Memories (song)" (1974)
• "Yesterday Man"/"I'm a Believer" (1974)
• "Yesterday Man"/"Sonia" (1977)
• "Arauco"/"Caimanera" (1980)
• "At Last I'm Free"/"Strange Fruit" (1980)
• "Stalin Wasn't Stallin'"/"Stalingrad" (1981)
• "Grass"/"Trade Union" (1981)
• "Shipbuilding"/"Memories of You"/"'Round Midnight" (1982)
• "The Wind of Change"/"Namibia"(1984) (as "Robert Wyatt with the SWAPO Singers")
• "The Age of Self"/"Raise Your Banners High" (1984)
• "Chairman Mao" (1987)
• "Free Will and Testament"/"The Sight of the Wind" (1997)
• "Heaps of Sheeps"/"A Sunday in Madrid" (1997)

Selected contributions to other people's recordings

• Backing vocals on "Calyx" on Hatfield and the North's Hatfield and the North (1974)
• Vocals on Michael Mantler's "The Happless Child" (1975/76)
• Vocals on Nick Mason's Fictitious Sports (1981)
• Wyatt released an EP entitled Summer Into Winter in collaboration with Ben Watt (1982)
• Vocals on four tracks on News from Babel's Letters Home (1986)
• Trumpet on one song on David Gilmour's On an Island (2006)
• Backing vocals on "I Keep Faith" on Billy Bragg's Mr. Love & Justice (2008)

Bibliography

Text by Robert Wyatt and illustrations by Jean-Michel Marchetti 

• 1997 MW, Æncrages & Co publishing
• 1998 M2W, Æncrages & Co publishing
• 2000 MW3, Æncrages & Co publishing
• 2003 M4W, Æncrages & Co publishing
• 2008 MBW (with Alfreda Benge), Æncrages & Co publishing

Books about Robert Wyatt

• 1998 Robert Wyatt : Wrong mouvements, by Mickael King, Camion Blanc publishing

References

External links

• Robert Wyatt - The Art and Music of Robert Wyatt
• Robert Wyatt interview at musicOMH.com, September 2007
• Robert Wyatt interview in Stop Smiling Magazine, July 2006
• Robert Wyatt interview in Perfect Sound Forever, November 1996
• Robert Wyatt solo discography
• Robert Wyatt (1945-), Musician (National Portrait Gallery photograph)
• Robert Wyatt on Obscure Sound

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