Guitar legend Eric Clapton has announced that the immensely popular ‘60’s trio Cream are set to reform, thirty-five years after the band first broke up.
Clapton, 59, along with drummer Ginger Baker, 65, and bassist Jack Bruce, 61, have put their differences aside, and according to the Sydney Morning Herald, are rumoured to be planning two concerts at London’s Royal Albert Hall, the venue where they played their final show on the 26th of November, 1968.
Formed in 1966, led by the 21 year old Clapton, who had already been dubbed “God” by London music lovers for his work in blues band The Yardbirds, the group that also launched the career of Jeff Beck, and was later to evolve into Led Zeppelin. Cream gained critical and commercial success for their energetic fusion of blues, jazz and hard rock. Along with Hendrix, Cream were to be credited with inventing heavy metal.
In the two years they were together, Cream managed to sell over 35 million albums, fueled by hit singles such as Strange Brew, White Room and Sunshine Of Your Love.
Cream last performed together for their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993.
