Results for Ginger Baker

  • Cream: Background to a Break-Up

    by Chris WelchNovember 26, 2008Comments (0)

    Originally published in  Melody Maker , July 1968 Cream are breaking up. The world-famous trio that features Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, and Jack Bruce are to go separate ways in the autumn. Said Eric at his Chelsea home this week: "I’ve been on the road seven years and I’m going on a big holiday." It was two years ago, in July 1966, that three of Britain’s most outstanding instrumentalists electrified the blues world by joining forces. (read more)

  • Rolling Stone Oldham: Talented, Insulting, Outrageous

    by Keith AlthamJuly 23, 2008Comments (2)

    Andrew Oldham is egotistical, talented, insulting, outrageous, and likeable almost in spite of himself. He manages the world's number two group, owns his own record company, produces discs, writes songs, sleeve notes, and poetry, and publishes the Beach Boys' music in Britain. In the hip vocabulary of pop music they say he is "happening." Perhaps Mama Cass stressed (read more)