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Station

Cream

1966 to 1968 · on Blues rock

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Active years

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The journey

1960196519701975Blues rock1967
  1. 1967Blues rock · The power trio

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Platform

  1. Blues rock1967 to 1968

    The power trio

    Disraeli Gears (1967) set the blues-rock power trio template: Clapton's guitar, Bruce's bass and Baker's drums stretched twelve-bar blues into extended improvisation.

    Key album: Disraeli Gears, 1967

    Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Cream (opens in a new tab)

Line-ups

Cream has a line-up of its own: Cream, 1966 to 1968, every member and spell as a line diagram.

Connections

InfluencedLed Zeppelin

The line

Blues rock (Rock family)

Sources

  1. Encyclopaedia Britannica, Cream (opens in a new tab)
  2. Holly George-Warren and Patricia Romanowski (editors), The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll, Fireside, 2001

Cite this page

The Metro Map of Music, ‘Cream: station’, /stations/cream.