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Today In Music History: Goodbye to Cream
Posted at 6:11 AM on July 10, 2009
by Steve Seel
Filed under: Music History
Arlo Guthrie (singer, songwriter, son of folksinger Woody Guthrie) is 62.
Ronnie James Dio (vocals, Rainbow, Black Sabbath) is 60.
Neil Tennant (vocals, Pet Shop Boys) is 55.
1954 - Producer Sam Phillips took a recording of Elvis Presley singing "That's All Right" to Memphis radio station WHBQ DJ Dewey Phillips. Philips played the song just after 9.30 that evening, and the phone lines lit up asking him to play the song again.
1965 - The Rolling Stones started a four week run at No.1 with "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction", the group's first US No.1.
1969 - Rolling Stone guitarist Brian Jones' funeral took place.
1976 - One hit wonders Starland Vocal Band started a two week run at No.1 with "Afternoon Delight" (and we now apologize that that song is stuck in your head).
1980 - Bob Marley and the Wailers began what would be Marley's last ever UK tour when they appeared in Dublin, Ireland.
Today in 1968, Eric Clapton announced that Cream would break-up after their current tour. The band had been one of the first true "supergroups" in rock n' roll, not to mention the band first pioneering the "power trio" format of guitar, bass and drums. Even after band's dissolution however, there would still be one more release: Goodbye, released the rollowing year and containing both live and studio material. This was as good a reason as any today to play one of Cream's greatest tracks, taken from that album: "Badge," co-writtten by Clapton and George Harrison.
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