Library Rock's Backpages

Cream Are The Very End!

Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 28 October 1966

"THE First is last and the last is first but the first, the second and the last are the Cream," so reads the perplexing handout on a new group which comprises three musicians – Eric Clapton, guitar (ex-Yardbird, ex-John Mayall Blues Breaker), Jack Bruce (ex-John Mayall, ex-Manfred Mann) and Ginger Baker (ex-Graham Bond Organisation). They enter the NME Chart this week with their first disc 'Wrapping Paper' having only been formed three months.

Total word count of piece: 662

Subscribe

Becoming a member is easy. Membership gives you access to all the thousands of articles in the library.

Click here to go to Subscribe page.

Click here for academic and other group subscriptions.