Ginger Baker was born.
Jack Bruce was born.
Eric Clapton was born.
Eric Clapton (late of the Yardbirds), Jack Bruce (Manfred Mann, Graham Bond Organization) and Ginger Baker (Graham Bond Organization) form a blues-based power trio named Cream.
Ahmet Ertegun signs the English group Cream. Atlantic will become a major force in British rock, releasing albums by such artists as the Bee Gees, Mott the Hoople, Yes, Genesis, Derek and the Dominos, Emerson, Lake and Palmer and Led Zeppelin.
Hendrix jams with Cream at the Regent Polytechnic College.
Cream’s second album, ‘Disraeli Gears’, enters the U.S. charts.
Cream hits #5 with “Sunshine of Your Love”.
Cream plays their farewell concert at London’s Royal Albert Hall.
Felix Pappalardi of Mountain and Cream, is shot and killed by his wife.
Cream is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.