Gong were formed in the late sixties in Paris by Daevid Allen following his enforced departure from Soft Machine. The band would wind its idiosyncratic way through the seventies adding and shedding members  all of whom would contribute to the vision that Daevid Allen had for the band. After leaving the band himself in the mid seventies the band would continue following a different musical path throughout the seventies and beyond. In the mid nineties Daevid Allen and Gilli Smyth once again took the chance to resurrect Gong and have continued to lead the band through various incarnations ever since.