As a companion piece, this week’s archive feature finds Baker’s former bandmate, Eric Clapton, providing a painfully frank account of his days in Cream – psychedelic drugs, 24-hour ...

“I thought of Cream as sort of a jazz band,” bassist Jack Bruce once said, “only we never told Eric he was really Ornette Coleman! Kept quiet about that.” Like a jazz band, Cream made ...

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, he ...