Ginger Baker: Legendary Cream drummer dies aged 80
Cream in Central Park, shortly before their farewell concert : Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker and Jack Bruce
While the musicianship was of a high standard, the eclectic mix of jazz, blues, African music and a surfeit of drums - there were three percussionists - was never going to inspire a mass following. The drug-related death of his friend, Jimi Hendrix, persuaded Baker it was time to leave the London music scene and get clean.
Financial problems of one sort or another dogged him throughout this period and he eventually lost control of his studio.Away from music, he took up rally driving and, somewhat incongruously, developed a love of polo, building up a sizeable collection of ponies, despite his tendency to get injured.."They had to take a piece of my hip bone out and screw it into my neck."
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