Cream Wheels of Fire

After a mere three albums in just under three years, Cream called it quits in 1969. Being proper gentlemen, they said their formal goodbyes with a tour and a farewell album called – what else? – Goodbye. As a slim, six-song single LP, it's far shorter than the rambling, out-of-control Wheels of Fire, but it boasts the same structure, evenly dividing its time between tracks cut on-stage and in the studio…

Disraeli Gears may not have been the best album that the Cream ever produced – Wheels of Fire was more ambitious and had higher high points, even if two of those are from the live disc - but it had the greatest impact of any body of music that the group ever released; it was that much of a leap forward from whatever had come before.

Cream were a 1960s British rock power trio consisting of drummer Ginger Baker, guitarist/singer Eric Clapton and bassist/singer Jack Bruce. The group's third album, Wheels of Fire (1968), was the world's first platinum-selling double album. Cream is widely regarded as the world's first successful supergroup with sales of more than 15 million copies of their albums worldwide. Their music included songs based on traditional blues such as "Crossroads" and "Spoonful", and modern blues such as "Born Under a Bad Sign", as well as more current material such as "Strange Brew", "Tales of Brave Ulysses" and "Toad". This album includes a fantastic live recording made for Swedish radio in March 1967 and previously un-release BBC radio sessions. It provides a unique picture of Cream in-concert and live in the studio in the period leading up to their classic 1967 album Disraeli Gears.