“I thought of Cream as sort of a jazz band,” bassist Jack Bruce once said, “only we never told Eric he was really ... would be blessed to feel so rankled. But then Clapton never did fully ...

In a 2012 interview with Uncut, Eric Clapton praised Led Zeppelin for continuing the tradition Cream had started. He told the publication, “Led Zeppelin took up our legacy.” However ...

Eric Clapton had already rifled through two bands when the opportunity to form Cream came about in 1966. He had made stops with both The Yardbirds (leaving because of their move toward pop music ...