Ginger Baker wasn’t an easy man to deal with, but Chris Goss learned early on how to put his head in the tiger’s mouth without getting it bitten clean off. “It depended on your approach,” Goss says of ...
A new book called Cream Chronicled, authored by Ginger Baker’s daughter Nettie, sets out to document every gig and recording ...
Kofi Baker first performed live with his father at age six on the BBC TV show, The Old Grey Whistle Test. In the early ’80s, the pair played drum duets throughout Europe, and since toured with Uli Jon ...
LONDON -- Ginger Baker, the volatile and propulsive drummer for Cream and other bands who wielded blues power and jazz finesse and helped shatter boundaries of time, tempo and style in popular music, ...
Legacies are tricky. You can’t see or touch them, yet they can be an unbearable weight to carry around. One has to imagine that’s the case for Kofi Baker, son of late Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Ginger ...
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Veteran rock wildman Ginger Baker threatened to attack a British Film Institute (Bfi) official in a bust-up over smoking at a screening of a new documentary about the star. The former Cream drummer is ...
Covering classic rock, I’ve done interviews with great drummers: Ginger Baker, Micky Dolenz, John Densmore, Clive Bunker, Doug Clifford & Jim McCarty, all included here. During my tenure covering ...
Eric Clapton and Ginger Baker performing with Cream. Credit: Getty Eric Clapton has announced a tribute concert for Ginger Baker, the late drummer and founder of Cream. READ MORE: Ginger Baker, ...
Drummer Ginger Baker, who became rock’s first superstar percussionist as a member of the wildly popular ‘60s British power trio Cream, died Sunday in England. He was 80. His Facebook and Twitter pages ...