The Soft Boys’ Matthew Seligman, who played bass on the group’s 1980 masterpiece Underwater Moonlight, has died. Frontman Robyn Hitchcock confirmed the news in a post on his official Facebook page April 17. “I’m writing this as Matthew Seligman slips out of this life and into wherever souls go next,” Hitchcock wrote. “Everybody goes, but none of us were expecting Matthew to leave us so abruptly, forever.
It is strange and very sad to be talking of him in the past tense.” Find Hitchcock’s full tribute below. The Soft Boys’ tenure was short-lived.
They formed in 1976 and disbanded shortly after the release of Underwater Moonlight, which remains their most beloved an influential album to-date.
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