The Soft Boys were an English rock band led by guitarist Robyn Hitchcock.

[3] Though the Soft Boys’ initial career was brief, their style of psychedelic music and retro folk-rock had a big influence on the development of jangle pop, indie rock, and neo-psychedelia during the 1980s and beyond.

[6] It was this lineup of Hitchcock, Rew, Metcalfe, and Windsor that recorded the Soft Boys' debut album, A Can of Bees, released 1979.

[7] In 1984, he formed Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians with fellow Soft Boys Morris Windsor and Andy Metcalfe and went on to tour and record for ten years.

They were briefly joined by Rew, Jim Melton and Seligman in a re-formed the Soft Boys for a UK tour in 1994 to mark the release of a box set of their work.