Cream: Live Cream Volume II
Metal Mike Saunders, Rolling Stone, 27 April 1972
IN THEIR GLORY DAYS of 1967-8, Cream singlehandedly spawned the whole genre of aloof heavy rock egomania, not to mention a whole school of insufferably self-centered lead rock guitarists.
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