Daevid Allen · Spotify · Courtesy of Spotify
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 3
Top works
- Gong Dreaming 2
- Gong Dreaming 1
- If words were birds
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Film & TV
Daevid Allen was an Australian poet, guitarist, singer, composer and performance artist. He was co-founder of the psychedelic rock groups Soft Machine (in the UK, 1966) and Gong (in France, 1967).
Known for
- Romantic Warriors III: Canterbury Tales2015
- Gong on French TV 1971-19732011
- Never Ending Space Ritual - History of Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O.2008
- Gong: Montserrat 1973 and Other Stories2006
- Gong - Live on TV 19901990
- Playa de Formentor — Party guest (uncredited)1965
- Rockenstock : Gong
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Australia
- Active from
- 1938-01-13
- Active to
- 2015-03-13
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 23,815
- Total plays
- 221,948
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Daevid Allen (born Christopher David Allen on 13 January 1938 in Melbourne, Australia; died on 13 March 2015) was an Australian poet, guitarist, singer, composer and performance artist. He was one of the founders of the British progressive rock band Soft Machine in 1966. After recording just one album with the group, he became the founder/leader of Gong, which he left in 1975 to begin a solo career (though his first solo album, Banana Moon, was released in 1971 while he was still in the group).
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- David
- Family name
- Allen
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Australia
- Place of birth
- Melbourne
- Place of death
- Byron Bay
- Occupation
- songwriter
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- progressive rock
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- BYG Records
- Official website
- universityoferrors.com
- Image
- DaevidAllen1974.jpg
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- Daevid Allen
- date of birth
- 1938-01-13
- date of death
- 2015-03-13
- manner of death
- natural causes
- member of
- Gong
- name in native language
- Daevid Allen
- cause of death
- cancer
- start of work period
- 1960-00-00
- different from
- David Allen
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