Ginger Baker - drums, percussion, vocals
Jack Bruce - bass, piano, vocals, harmonica
Eric Clapton - lead guitar, rhythm guitar, vocals
"
Strange Brew" (Eric Clapton/
Gail Collins/
Felix Pappalardi) - 00:00
"
Sunshine of Your Love" (
Pete Brown/Jack Bruce/Eric Clapton) - 02:47
"
World of Pain" (Gail Collins/Felix Pappalardi) - 07:00
"
Dance the Night Away" (Pete Brown/Jack Bruce) - 10:01
"
Blue Condition" (Ginger Baker) - 13:44
"
Tales of Brave Ulysses" (Eric Clapton/
Martin Sharp) - 17:13
"
Swlabr" (Pete Brown/Jack Bruce) - 20:02
"
We're Going Wrong" (Jack Bruce) - 22:40
"
Outside Woman Blues" (
Arthur Reynolds arr. Eric Clapton) - 26:08
"
Take It Back" (Pete Brown/Jack Bruce) - 28:38
"
Mother's
Lament" (trad. arr. Ginger Baker/Jack Bruce/Eric Clapton) -
Disraeli Gears is the second
album by the
English rock band
Cream. It was released in
November 1967 and went on to reach number 5 on the
UK Albums Chart. It was also their
American breakthrough, becoming a massive seller there in
1968, reaching number 4 on the
American charts. The album was #1 for two weeks on the
Australian album chart and was listed as the #1 album of 1968 by
Cash Box in the year-end album chart in the
U.S. The album features the two
singles "Strange Brew" and "Sunshine of Your Love".
The title of the album is based on a malapropism. Eric Clapton had been thinking of buying a racing bicycle and was discussing it with Ginger Baker, when a roadie named
Mick Turner commented, "it's got them Disraeli Gears", meaning to say "derailleur gears", but instead alluding to
19th-century British Prime Minister,
Benjamin Disraeli.
The band thought this was hilarious, and decided that it should be the title of their next album.
The original 11-track album was remastered in
1998, and then subsequently released as a two-disc
Deluxe Edition in 2004.
In
1999, the album was inducted into the
Grammy Hall of Fame.
In
2003 the album was ranked number 114 on
Rolling Stone magazine's list of the
500 Greatest Albums of All
Time.
VH1 also named it their
87th greatest album of all time in
2001. In 2008, the album won a
Classic Rock Roll of Honours
Award for
Classic Album.
The album was recorded at
Atlantic Studios in
New York during May 1967, following the band's nine shows as part of
Murray the K's "
Music in the
5th Dimension" concert series. Cream's American label,
ATCO, was a wholly owned subsidiary of
Atlantic Records.
The sessions were produced by future
Mountain bassist Felix Pappalardi -- who co-wrote the tracks "Strange Brew" and "World of Pain" with wife Gail Collins -- and were engineered by
Tom Dowd -- who would later work with
Clapton on projects such as
Layla and Other Assorted
Love Songs and
461 Ocean Boulevard. The owner of Atlantic Records,
Ahmet Ertegun, was also present during the sessions.
According to Dowd the recording sessions took only three and a half days, a feat considering the length of the album. The band's visas expired on the very last day of recording.
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