Daevid Allen

Australian musician (1938–2015) Daevid AllenAllen with Gong at HMV Forum, London in 2009Background informationAlso known asDivided AlienBert CamembertDingo VirginJa AmBornChristopher David Allen(1938-01-13)13 January 1938Melbourne, AustraliaDied13 March 2015(2015-03-13) (aged 77)AustraliaGenresCanterbury scenepsychedelic rockspace rockjazz rockpsychedelic folkperformance poetryOccupationMusicianInstrumentsGuitarvocalsbassYears active1960–2015Formerly ofSoft MachineGongWebsitedaevidallen.comMusical artist Christopher David "Daevid" Allen (13 January 1938 – 13 March 2015) was an Australian musician. He was co-founder of the Canterbury scene groups Soft Machine (in the UK, 1966) and Gong (in France, 1967). Biography Early years He was born in Melbourne to Walter and Helen Allen, and is of English descent. His father was a director in a furniture business and played piano. 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 Pêch