Rock Bottom is the second solo album (the first post-Soft Machine) by Robert Wyatt. Although Rock Bottom is technically Wyatt's second solo LP, he has stated in several interviews that he considers its predecessor The End of an Ear as juvenilia and not part of the recognised "canon" of Wyatt solo records. Preparations were under way for a third Matching Mole album—likely featuring earlier versions of several songs that ended up on Rock Bottom such as Sea Song—when, during the course of a raucous party on the night of 1 July 1973, an inebriated Wyatt fell from a fourth-floor window Read more on Last.fm.