 After several years with the BBC, in 1974 he moved to Australia where he joined the national Channel 9 network.Rowan Ayers was the father of Kevin Ayers, a founder member of Soft Machine and a very keen Merlin Rocket sailor in the 1960s.Rowan Ayers launched "Abbey Road", the Beatles' last recorded album, on his show "Late Night Line-Up" to rapturous applause in late 1969.