[Slowhand] Cream reunion!

[Art Arias]

NEW YORK (Billboard) - Vintage rock trio Cream will
reunite for a string of shows next year at London's
Royal Albert Hall, sources tell Billboard. 

The group — guitarist/vocalist Eric Clapton, drummer
Ginger Baker and bassist Jack Bruce — played its final
shows at Albert Hall before splintering in November
1968. Cream has not performed together since its 1993
induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 

Billboard understands that the trio will begin
rehearsals after the first of the year, with an eye on
a weeklong run of gigs at Albert Hall. It is unknown
if plans call for additional shows in other parts of
the world. A spokesperson for Clapton had no comment.


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In just two years, Cream achieved legendary status on
the strength of the albums "Fresh Cream," "Disraeli
Gears" (recently reissued in a deluxe edition by
Polydor) and the half-live/half-studio "Wheels of
Fire," expertly blending blues, rock and the
burgeoning strains of psychedelia. 

"Disraeli Gears" is a particular landmark, sporting
such signature tracks as "Strange Brew" and "Sunshine
of Your Love," which features one of the most
distinctive riffs in rock history. 

"Live, Cream was a great, hardworking band — Eric was
supreme and Ginger the most musical drummer alive —
and those original live albums were very good,
probably the best records of their kind up to that
point," Bruce told Billboard in 1997, prior to the
release of the boxed set "Those Were the Days." "But
our studio recordings were probably more important,
although there you can tell that each one of us had a
different idea of what Cream should be." 

After Cream's split, Clapton and Baker joined another
supergroup, Blind Faith, with Traffic's Steve Winwood
and Family bassist Rick Grech. But the combo issued
only one album before Clapton set off on an enduring
solo career. Baker and Bruce have continued to record
and tour in a variety of incarnations.

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