Julian Cope presents Head Heritage

The story on copyright is interesting. We don't know. The provenance is unknown. Larry is convinced that Soft Machine were too marginal a band to warrant anyone other than the band themselves or their management could have sanctioned the silkscreen. I don't think Soft Machine were marginal a band at all. They played lots of gigs on the UK and European circuit to large and small audiences, they also played a lot with Pink Floyd with whom they were friendly, in fact Soft machine are all over the Syd Barrett sessions at EMI. They sold lots of copies of Soft Machine 3 as I used to see it second hand all the time in the late 70's and early 80's. They also played many BBC Top Gear sessions as John Peel were friends with them. So they reached their target audience with 100% efficiency.