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Celebration Due Of Arlington Heights Club The Cellar, Home To Cream, The Who
The story of the fondly-remembered Cellar Club in the Chicago suburb of Arlington Heights is to be celebrated tonight and tomorrow (25/26) at one of the area’s most popular modern-day nightspots, Hey...
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Rockpalast Shares Rare Archival Videos To Celebrate Jack Bruce’s 80th Birthday
Iconic German TV music television show Rockpalast has shared a number of rare archival videos on YouTube to celebrate what would have been the 80th birthday of the legendary singer, composer and...
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Poet, Lyricist Pete Brown, Co-Writer Of Cream Classics, Dies At 82
Pete Brown, the English lyricist, musician, and counter-cultural poet who wrote the words to Jack Bruce’s music on classic hits by Cream and on countless subsequent collaborations with the bassist,...
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All You Need Is The Summer Of Love: How 1967 Sparked A Revolution
“The year 1967 seems rather golden,” Paul McCartney later reflected. “It always seemed to be sunny and we wore far-out clothes and far-out sunglasses. Maybe calling it the Summer Of Love was a bit too...
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Willie Dixon – The Greatest Blues Songwriter
Born in Vicksburg, deep in the heart of the Mississippi Delta, on July 1, 1915, Willie Dixon was a fixer, arranger, talent scout, boxer, performer, and songwriter who did more to shape the repertoire...
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So What Is Psychedelic Rock?
Considering it was widely dismissed at the time as merely another momentary fad, and erroneously presumed to be pretty much dead in the water by the middle of 1968, the influence of psychedelic rock...
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‘Live Cream’: Still Rising To The Top, Two Years After Their Split
If the members of Cream thought their work together would be forgotten after they split at the end of 1968, the charts of the following years served another reminder that they still held a place in the...
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Kaleidoscope Eyes: Alan Aldridge, Designer For Beatles, Who, Elton John
London-born graphic designer and illustrator Alan Aldridge may never have been remotely as famous as those he collaborated with. But he created some of the most well-known album covers and pop imagery...
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Under A Bad Sign: Cream Start Their Long Goodbye
On July 10, 1968, Cream announced that within a few months, they would be going their separate ways. Just as their third album Wheels Of Fire was being released, and after considering the announcement...
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‘The Beano Album’: John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers And Eric Clapton Create A Classic
In 1965, British blues artist John Mayall enlisted Eric Clapton – then a rising guitar virtuoso – to join his band, the Bluesbreakers. While their musical partnership would only last for one album, the...
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The ‘Eric Clapton’ Album: The Solo Spotlight Falls On A Guitar Master
Eric Clapton spent the 1960s forming his peerless reputation in one great band after another, but it was on July 25, 1970 that his name appeared on the charts as a solo artist for the first time. After...
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Making History: The 6th National Jazz And Blues Festival
When the 6th National Jazz and Blues Festival was held on the last weekend of July 1966, it was the first to be held at Windsor, a little further west than its original home in Richmond, Surrey. As...
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First Spoonful: Cream’s Live Debut, In The Home Of Northern Soul
History records the official live debut of Cream in 1966 taking place at the sixth annual National Jazz & Blues Festival in Windsor. But the trio’s actual first live performance was a last-minute,...
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‘They All Learned From Ahms’: Atlantic Records’ Visionary Ahmet Ertegun
Few record executives have had played such a role in shaping the music business as Ahmet Ertegun. The great co-founder of Atlantic Records helped steer the careers of countless superstar acts and was...
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‘John Barleycorn Must Die’: Traffic’s Multi-Layered Rebirth
“Winwood. Traffic. Here is some group,” raved Circus magazine, when the band reconvened for the John Barleycorn Must Die album. “There is no better,” drooled their reviewer Jonathan Eisen. “It is not...
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For Three Nights Only: Eric Clapton, Pete Townshend, And Keith Moon
Eric Clapton was a busy man in the summer of 1974. In the US touring his new 461 Ocean Boulevard album since mid-June, the schedule took him on August 1 to Atlanta, and a gig at the Omni Coliseum that...
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The Best Songs Based On Books
Going back to the dawn of civilization, stories were songs: Homer’s celebrated epics, The Iliad and The Odyssey, were initially performed to the lute and serve as the bedrock of the oral tradition;...
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Three Wheels Good: Cream Find Their Essence On ‘Wheels Of Fire’
Four months before The Beatles made their bid for the best double album of 1968, Cream made theirs. Wheels Of Fire, the record that introduced the classic “White Room” and other great performances by...
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‘Play Them Loud’: A Celebration Of Fabulous Fenders
Fender guitars are iconic. They have a look, an aura of sleek refinement that says “Play me, play me loud, play me subtly and play me well.” Our celebration of this unique instrument honors Clarence...
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Grand Funk Railroad Arrive Right ‘On Time’
They’re an American band, and this was their first album. Grand Funk Railroad played their first gig in March 1969 and On Time came out five months later on August 25. The LP was recorded in the...
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