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“I don’t feel like we were trying to do a new Cream”: Legendary guitarist Robin Trower on the ’80s supergroup he created with Jack Bruce

In 1981, Robin Trower got together with former Sly And The Family Stone drummer Bill Lowden and former Cream frontman Jack Bruce and made one delicious blues-rock sandwich

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Carmine Appice names the forgotten rock drummer who “started everything”: “The playing, the showmanship, the twirling – he was a monster player and never got credit”

The Vanilla Fudge drummer salutes a rock pioneer – and clears up a famous Led Zeppelin rumour

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Quote of the day by Eric Clapton: 'Music became a healer for me. And I learned to listen with all my...' - emotional quote by English singer famously known as Slowhand teaches life lessons on how music can heal fear, confusion and difficult emotions

Quote of the day by Eric Clapton: Eric Clapton found music became a personal healer during difficult family times. He learned to listen deeply, which helped him process fear and confusion. Clapton began playing guitar as a teenager and joined the Yardbirds in 1963. He later formed Cream and achieved…

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“Clapton kept calling Andy Summers and said, ‘You need to sell me your guitar. I’m going to record Fresh Cream and I need a Les Paul – that’s the sound I want’”: The hidden history of Eric Clapton’s 1960 Summersburst Les Paul Standard

When his ‘Beano’ ’Burst was stolen, Slowhand reached out to Andy Summers for a replacement – and the guitar became the sound of Cream

Guitar World

"That riff is probably the very first heavy metal riff ever": The story of the Hendrix-inspired Cream classic their label boss thought was "psychedelic hogwash"

Cream's Sunshine Of Your Love was a slow-burning success, but it inspired a generation of future rockers

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“Eric Clapton isn’t God. Jack Bruce is. When I was 14 I sprayed his name on my bedroom wall in luminous paint to remind me who the greatest bass player in the world is”: Jeff Berlin on meeting his bass hero – and playing White Room alongside him

According to bass virtuoso Jeff Berlin, Jack Bruce is still the bass guitar’s most underrated innovator

Guitar World

“I got wrecked, paranoid, the whole thing... and then they hit this riff that I still remember. I just wept”: Paul McCartney on the life-changing moment he saw Fela Kuti live while smoking with Ginger Baker

McCartney recalls how a series of unfortunate events led to a friendship with Nigerian legend, Fela Kuti

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“There was a back door to the studio that led out to the street. I went out and I'm not kidding you, but this guy pops out of a trash can – it was Ginger Baker!”: Jimmy Douglass on his early days working for Atlantic Records

Having shaped rock, R&B and hip-hop across five decades, Grammy-winning engineer and producer Jimmy "The Senator" Douglass reflects on his extraordinary career

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“People got stuck on an image of axe-wielding maniacs on drugs or if they would even speak to each other”: What really happened with Cream behind the scenes? Ginger Baker’s daughter reveals all

Nettie Baker’s new book Cream Chronicled debunks a few myths about one of rock’s most influential power trios

Guitar World

“Knowing that I had the other one, Eric starts calling me and asking if I would sell it. He was offering me £200 for it, more than twice what I’d paid for it”: The history and mysteries of Eric Clapton’s Cream guitars

The history of Eric Clapton’s guitars during Cream’s brief but influential existence – from Fresh Cream to Goodbye – reveals an intriguing mixofinstruments but also offers up a mystery or two

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“As soon as they started to jam, all three felt the magic. They instinctively knew they were on to something”: Their first single was so bad, the label pulled 10,000 copies. Yet they went on to be one of the most influential supergroups in music history

60 years ago, Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker put together Cream. This is the story of the early years of the power trio that changed the face of popular music, and elevated Clapton to God-like status

Guitar World

“Atlantic Records told me, ‘Eric should be the singer. You’re just the bass player.’ So I cried in the corner while they came up with Strange Brew”: Eric Clapton was Cream’s biggest star, but Jack Bruce sang most of the band’s classic tracks

In later years, Bruce jokingly referred to Cream as Da Creams, in a nod to the band’s supergroup status

Guitar World

“I was attracted to melodic bass players like Carol Kaye. Why should a rock bassist play dumb notes all the time?” How Tony Visconti rethought rock bass for David Bowie’s The Man Who Sold the World

The legendary producer revisits his ground-shaking bass work on Bowie’s 1970 breakthrough album

Guitar World

“They kept talking about this bizarre guitar player who practiced nonstop in his room and was very eccentric. I thought, ‘I want to work with him’”: Bill Laswell survived Buckethead, John Lydon, Ginger Baker and Eddie Hazel – and made it sound easy

The bass journeyman, soundscape creator and producer recalls having his P-Bass stolen the night before his first Brian Eno session, making PiL classic Rise, and hoping illness hasn’t ended his surprisingly fight-free career

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"He created rolling barrages of tribal intensity": When British rock drumming ruled the world

Half a century ago, a select handful of British drummers became the most talked about and influential players in the world

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"When he did the four-tom fill that he was famous for, I almost fainted twice": Masters Of Reality's Chris Goss on Ginger Baker, David Bowie and the aggression of Rick Rubin

The gospel according to Chris Goss

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"For all the madcap genius of Roy Wood and Jeff Lynne, Bev Bevan sounds like the star of the show": The Move's Looking On signposts better things further down the road

What happened to Jeff Lynne in between the Idle Race and the Electric Light Orchestra

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Exclusive: Meta in talks to deploy stablecoins three years after giving up on landmark crypto project

The social media giant is exploring how to use stablecoins to pay content creators, among other uses, according to sources familiar with the matter.

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Legendary Bohemian Rhapsody producer Roy Thomas Baker dead at 78

Roy Thomas Baker worked with Queen, Free, Journey, The Cars, Yes, Ozzy Osbourne, Smashing Pumpkins and many more

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“Mitch Mitchell was a journeyman. He was hopeless. John Bonham, Ringo Starr, Charlie Watts… they’re a three or four out of 10”: An audience with Ginger Baker, rock’s most cantankerous drummer

From Cream to Blind Faith and beyond, this is how Ginger Baker revolutionised music

Guitar World

“It was very much a management thing – ‘Find somebody to replace Clapton.’ Rory wouldn't have any of it”: When Rory Gallagher was asked to fill Eric Clapton's shoes in rock's pioneering power trio

As Cream began to disintegrate barely two years into their existence, the enormously successful band's managers were desperate to keep them going

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“I always thought that Pink Floyd were a band for people who don’t like music or rock’n’roll”: Jack Bruce’s wild tales of Ginger Baker, Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Leslie West and more

From Ginger Baker’s genius to Leslie West’s food roadie, former Cream man Jack Bruce saw it all

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“I think that the whole band was kind of misunderstood by everybody, and it gave us a sort of an edge, you know": The story of Cream's Disraeli Gears

Best of 2024: How Baker, Bruce and Clapton transcended their (and their management's) very different ambitions for Cream to track a '60s masterpiece

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“Because the guy’s got a knife, he’s fairly persuasive!”: How Paul McCartney survived a mugging - and a mutiny - to create his solo masterpiece

The full, amazing story of Band On The Run

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“One of the best guitar solos ever conceived - captured live on stage!”: Uncovering the truth about the Clapton classic that he called "wrong" but Eddie Van Halen loved

The real story of Cream’s Crossroads

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