Robert Wyatt

Robert Wyatt

Robert Wyatt (born Robert Wyatt-Ellidge, 28 January 1945) is a retired English musician. A founding member of the influential Canterbury scene bands Soft Machine and Matching Mole, he was initially a kit drummer and singer before becoming paraplegic following an accidental fall from a window in 1973, which led him to abandon band work, explore other instruments, and begin a forty-year solo career.A key player during the formative years of British jazz fusion, psychedelia and progressive rock, Wyatt's own work became increasingly interpretative, collaborative and politicised from the mid-1970s onwards. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Wyatt has received more than 1,179,218 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Robert Wyatt is the 445th most popular musician (up from 526th in 2019), the 1,481st most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,665th in 2019) and the 88th most popular British Musician.