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Cream was a 1960s three-piece British band consisting of bassist/lead vocalist

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Cream was a 1960s three-piece British band consisting of bassist/lead vocalist Jack Bruce, guitarist/vocalist Eric Clapton, and drummer Ginger Baker, having formed in London, England. They were known as one of the first great power trios and supergroups of rock. Their sound was characterised by a hybrid of blues, hard rock and psychedelic rock. Cream combined Clapton's blues guitar playing with the powerful and airy voice and intense bass lines of Jack Bruce and the manic drumming of Ginger Baker. They have sold over 35 million albums worldwide. Wheels of Fire was the world's first platinum-selling double album.

Baker, Bruce, and Clapton named their band "Cream" because they thought themselves as the "cream of the crop" of their respective instruments.

Cream's music included songs based on traditional blues such as "Crossroads" and "Spoonful", and modern blues such as "Born Under a Bad Sign" and "Outside Woman Blues" as well as more eccentric songs such as "Strange Brew", "Tales of Brave Ulysses" and "Toad". Cream's biggest hits were "I Feel Free" (UK, #11), "Sunshine of Your Love" (US, #5), "White Room" (US, #6), "Crossroads" (US, #28), and "Badge" (UK, #18).

Cream, together with The Jimi Hendrix Experience, made a significant impact upon the popular music of the time, providing a heavy yet technically proficient musical theme that foreshadowed the emergence of bands such as Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple and The Jeff Beck Group in the late 1960s. The band's live performances influenced progressive rock acts such as Rush, jam bands such as The Allman Brothers Band, Grateful Dead and Phish, and heavy metal bands such as Black Sabbath.

Cream were ranked #16 on VH1's 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock.

By July of 1966, Eric Clapton's career with The Yardbirds and John Mayall's Bluesbreakers had earned him a reputation as the premier blues guitarist in Britain. Clapton's virtuosity and raw power with the instrument inspired one fan to spray paint the words "Clapton is God" on the wall of an Islington underground station. Clapton, however, found the environment of Mayall's band confining, and sought to expand his playing in a new band.

In 1966, Clapton met Baker, then the leader of the Graham Bond Organisation, which at one point featured Jack Bruce on bass, harmonica and piano. Baker, too, felt stifled in the GBO, and had grown tired of Graham Bond's drug addictions and bouts of mental instability. "I had always liked Ginger", explained Clapton. "Ginger had come to see me play with John Mayall. After the gig he drove me back to London in his Rover. I was very impressed with his car and driving. He was telling me that he wanted to start a band, and I had been thinking about it too." Each was impressed with the other's playing abilities, prompting Baker to ask Clapton to join his new, then-unnamed group. Clapton immediately agreed, on the condition that Baker hire Jack Bruce as the group's bassist; according to Clapton, when he made the suggestion, Baker almost crashed the car.

album: "Fresh Cream" (1966)

I Feel Free

N.S.U

Sleepy Time Time

Dreaming

Sweet Wine

Spoonful

Cat's Squirrel

Four Until Late

Rollin' And Tumblin'

I'm So Glad

The Coffee Song

Wrapping Paper

album: "Disraeli Gears" (1967)

Strange Brew

Sunshine Of Your Love

World Of Pain

Dance The Night Away

Blue Condition

Tales Of Brave Ulysses

SWLABR

We're Going Wrong

Outside Woman Blues

Take It Back

Mother's Lament

album: "Wheels Of Fire" (1968)

White Room

Sitting On Top Of The World

Passing The Time

As You Said

Pressed Rat And Warthog

Politician

Those Were The Days

Born Under A Bad Sign

Deserted Cities Of The Heart

Crossroads

Spoonful

Traintime

album: "Goodbye" (1969)

I'm So Glad

Politician

Sitting On Top Of The World

Badge

Doing That Scrapyard Thing

What A Bringdown

Anyone For Tennis

other songs:

Lawdy Mama

Stormy Monday