Drummer Pip Pyle Dies
Thursday, August 31, 2006
Drummer Philip “Pip” Pyle died in a Paris hotel room on Monday aged 56. Born in Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire in 1950, he was a key member of the Canterbury scene and played in Hatfield and the North, Gong and National Health, three bands that traced their evolution back to the work of Soft Machine and Caravan. His career, combining progressive rock and jazz, spanned a lifetime’s worth of music. His death came three days after performing with a reformed Hatfield and the North in Holland.


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