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"Sunshine of Your Love" is a song by the British supergroup Cream, released on the Disraeli Gears album. It was Cream's best-selling song and Atlantic Records' best-selling to date as well. It features an immediately recognisable guitar/bass guitar riff (even to those who have never heard the song in its entirety) and an acclaimed guitar solo from Eric Clapton. It was written by bassist Jack Bruce, Pete Brown, and Clapton. Image File history File links Sunshine_of_your_love_single. ...
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Cream were a classic 1960s British rock band, which consisted of guitarist Eric Clapton, bassist Jack Bruce and drummer Ginger Baker. ...
Disraeli Gears is the second album by British blues-rock group Cream. ...
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Eric Patrick Clapton CBE (born 30 March 1945), nicknamed Slowhand, is a Grammy Award winning English guitarist, singer, songwriter and composer. ...
John Symon Asher Jack Bruce (born May 14, 1943) is a Scottish-born musician, composer and singer. ...
Pete Brown (born December 25, 1940 in Ashtead, Surrey, England) is a British performance poet, lyricist and musical producer, best known for his collaborations with Jack Bruce. ...
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Felix Pappalardi (December 30, 1939 – April 17, 1983) is best known as the producer of the psychedelic, blues-inspired rock trio Cream, beginning with their second album, Disraeli Gears. ...
Cream were a classic 1960s British rock band, which consisted of guitarist Eric Clapton, bassist Jack Bruce and drummer Ginger Baker. ...
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Cream were a classic 1960s British rock band, which consisted of guitarist Eric Clapton, bassist Jack Bruce and drummer Ginger Baker. ...
Disraeli Gears is the second album by British blues-rock group Cream. ...
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Eric Patrick Clapton CBE (born 30 March 1945), nicknamed Slowhand, is a Grammy Award winning English guitarist, singer, songwriter and composer. ...
John Symon Asher Jack Bruce (born May 14, 1943) is a Scottish-born musician, composer and singer. ...
Pete Brown (born December 25, 1940 in Ashtead, Surrey, England) is a British performance poet, lyricist and musical producer, best known for his collaborations with Jack Bruce. ...
Development
Development of the song began in January 1967 when Bruce and Clapton attended a Jimi Hendrix show at the Saville Theatre in London. Inspired by the likes of Richard Wetherell and rock drummer, Bruce returned home and wrote the now memorable guitar riff that runs throughout the song. The lyrics to "Sunshine of Your Love" were written during an all-night creative session between Bruce and Brown, a poet who worked with the band: "I picked up my double bass and played the riff. Pete looked out the window and the sun was coming up. He wrote 'It's getting near dawn and lights close their tired eyes…'" Clapton later wrote the bridge ("I've been waiting so long…") which also yielded the song's title. Year 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. ...
Jimi Hendrix James Marshall Jimi Hendrix (November 27, 1942 - September 18, 1970) was an American guitarist, singer, songwriter and producer who is widely considered to be the most important electric guitarist in the history of popular music. ...
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Clapton's guitar tone on the song, created using his Gibson SG guitar, fuzz face and a Marshall amplifier, is renowned among guitarists as perhaps the best example of his legendary late-'60s "woman tone", a thick yet articulate sound that many have tried to emulate. For the solo Clapton quoted the opening lines from the pop standard "Blue Moon". The Gibson SG is a popular model of solid-bodied electric guitar that was introduced in the early 1960s. ...
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The woman tone is the informal term used by guitarists to refer to Eric Claptons distinctive mid- to late-1960s electric guitar sound, created using his Gibson SG solidbody guitar (with humbucking pickups) and a Marshall tube (valve) amplifier. ...
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Drummer Ginger Baker's distinctive drum part was suggested by producer Tom Dowd, who drew his inspiration from what he called the "Indian beat" of classic Western films. This slow, downbeat-stressing beat forms a key element of the song. However, Baker claims that he was the one who came up with the pocket and didn't receive writing credit: "not even a thank you!" Peter Edward Ginger Baker (born August 19, 1939, Lewisham, South London) is an English drummer who gained fame as a member of the Graham Bond Organization (GBO) and Cream from 1966 until 1968. ...
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The band's publisher, Atlantic Records, initially rejected the song. Booker T. Jones, leader of Booker T. and the MG's and a respected Atlantic musician, heard the band rehearsing the song in the Atlantic studios and recommended it to the record company bosses. Based on this recommendation, Atlantic approved the recording. Atlantic Records (Atlantic Recording Corporation) is an American record label, and operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of Warner Music Group. ...
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"Sunshine of Your Love" was the band's first big US hit. In the US, this first charted in February, 1968 at #36. With the release of the album in August, it re-entered the chart and went to #5. The song appears on the soundtracks of the movies School of Rock, Goodfellas, Uncommon Valor, and True Lies. The opening riff also appeared at the end of a Futurama episode and in an episode of The Simpsons, in a 60s flashback with Homer Simpson's mother. For other uses, see School of Rock (disambiguation). ...
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The song's distinctive riff is based on a D blues scale (pentatonic). In music, a pentatonic scale is a scale with five notes per octave. ...
In March 2005, Q magazine placed "Sunshine of Your Love" at number 19 in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks. Q is a music and entertainment magazinepublished monthly in the United Kingdom. ...
Versions by other performers Jimi Hendrix performed "Sunshine of Your Love" as a setlist staple throughout his 1968 and 1969 concerts, employing wailing guitar riffs in place of the lyrics and ending the song by dramatically slowing the tempo to a grinding halt, as well as including leitmotifs from other Cream songs such as "Swlabr". Recordings of the song can be found on Experience Vol. 1 and The Last Experience Concert: Live at the Royal Albert Hall in their entirety (slightly less than seven minutes) and in a truncated version on BBC Sessions. During a January 1969 appearance on the "Happening for Lulu" television show, Hendrix halted his band near the end of the set and broke into "Sunshine of Your Love", running the show past its scheduled end time[1]. This moment inspired Elvis Costello's rendition of "Radio Radio" on Saturday Night Live in 1977. Jimi Hendrix (November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American guitar virtuoso, singer and songwriter. ...
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SWABLR was a song performed by the rock band Cream. ...
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Blood, Sweat & Tears also used the riff in their song "Blues Part II," and a cappella singer Bobby McFerrin recorded a voice instrumental version of the song on the album "Simple Pleasures" (1988), in which he replicates Clapton's guitar solo using only his vocals and some effects processing. Ella Fitzgerald also recorded a version in 1968. The trippiness of her rendition might be compared with that of The 5th Dimension's, which appeared on the vocal group's The Age of Aquarius LP. A version (with some sexually-charged lyric changes) performed by Frank Zappa (and band) appears on his The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life album, along with a cover of Hendrix' frequent staple "Purple Haze" and a number of other covers. English Doom band Fudge Tunnel recorded it on their "Hate Songs in E Minor" on Earache Records in the 1990s. Living Colour recorded their take on the song in 1994 for the True Lies soundtrack, which also appears on their Everything Is Possible: The Very Best of Living Colour 2006 compilation album. Sunshine of Your Love was also given a skanking up-tempo cover by Bim Skala Bim on the Tuba City (1989) album. Hardcore band Earth Crisis released a live version on their Best-Of album Forever True. The song was also covered by Ozzy Osbourne on his 2005 cover album Under Cover. Brant Bjork and The Bros recorded it on their double-album Saved by Magic. This article is about the band. ...
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Brant Bjork is an American musician from Palm Desert, California, who is a drummer, producer, guitarist and one of the more notable figures in the stoner rock and desert rock, and Palm Desert scenes. ...
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References - Discography
- Disraeli Gears (liner notes). 1967, PolyGram International Music.
- McDermott, John. The Best of Cream: 20th Century Masters The Millennium Collection (liner notes). 2000, Universal International Music.
- Michael Schumacher. Crossroads: The Life and Music of Eric Clapton 2003, Citadel Press.
- Moormann, Mark. Tom Dowd and the Language of Music. 2003, Language of Music Films.
Disraeli Gears is the second album by British blues-rock group Cream. ...
External links - Lyrics
- Live version performed at the Revolution Club, London, in November 1967 for French TV [2]
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