Wheels Of Fire
LP by Cream
Released	July 1968
Recorded	July 1967-April 1968 at Atlantic Studios, New York City
Genre	Blues-rock/Psychedelic
Length	84:23
Label	Polydor
Producer(s)	Felix Pappalardi
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link
Cream chronology
Disraeli Gears (1967) Wheels Of Fire (1968) Goodbye (1969)

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The album was also released as Wheels of Fire (in the studio) and Wheels of Fire (live at the Fillmore) as two single albums, released together, with similar cover art except one was gold in colour and the other silver, and completely different track lists and slightly different personnel.

In 2003, the album was ranked number 203 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. The Rolling Stone logo, designed by Rick Griffin. ... The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time was the cover story of a special issue of Rolling Stone magazine published in November 2003. ...

The cartoonist Martin Sharp who designed the sleeve won the New York Art Directors Prize for Best Album Design in 1969. For the british journalist see, Martin Sharp (journalist): Martin Sharp (born 1944) is an Australian artist, cartoonist, songwriter and film-maker. ...

In the Studio

Track listing

1. "White Room" (Bruce/Brown) - 4.58
2. "Sitting On Top Of The World" (Burnett) - 4.58
3. "Passing The Time" (Baker/Taylor) - 4.37 ¹
4. "As You Said" (Bruce/Brown) - 4.20
5. "Pressed Rat And Warthog" (Baker/Taylor) - 3.13
6. "Politician" (Bruce/Brown) - 4.12
7. "Those Were The Days" (Baker/Taylor) - 2.53
8. "Born Under A Bad Sign" (Jones/Bell) - 3.09
9. "Deserted Cities Of The Heart" (Bruce/Brown) - 3.38

Performers are the Cream quartet consisting of Clapton, Baker, and Bruce together with Felix Pappalardi, who plays many different instruments and is also credited with production. White Room is a song, written by Jack Bruce and Pete Brown, and a single by Cream from their 1968 album Wheels of Fire. ... Jack Bruce (born May 14, 1943) is a British musician; a multi-instumentalist, composer, singer and, most importantly, a very influential electric bassist. ... Pete Brown is a British performance poet and lyricist, best known for his collaborations with Jack Bruce. ... Howlin Wolf album cover Chester Arthur Burnett (June 10, 1910 – January 10, 1976), better known as Howlin Wolf, was an influential blues singer, songwriter, guitarist and harmonica player. ... Peter Edward Ginger Baker (born August 19, 1939) born in Lewisham, London, is a British percussionist who gained fame as a member of Cream from 1966 until 1968 with Jack Bruce and Eric Clapton, and later joined Clapton and Steve Winwood in the 1969 group Blind Faith. ... Mike Taylor was a co-songwriter for the band Cream. ... Booker T. Jones (born November 12, 1944) is a multi_instrumentalist, songwriter, producer and arranger, most well known for fronting the band Booker T. and the MGs. ... William Bell (born William Yarborough on July 16, 1939 in Memphis, Tennessee) is an American soul singer and songwriter. ... Felix Pappalardi was born in the Bronx on December 20, 1939. ...

Note 1: Some pressings of this album contain an alternative version of "Passing The Time". This "long version" is extended by 67 seconds, but also differs from the "extended version" included on Those Were The Days, which is longer by a further 8 seconds. Those Were The Days is a retrospective compilation of the music of Cream, released in September 1997. ...

Live at the Fillmore

Although listed as four tracks and pressed with a track separation between the songs, this album consists of only two recordings, with the audio signal continuing intact between the tracks as the band segues between the songs.

While the disc is labeled "Live at the Fillmore," only "Toad" was recorded there. The other tracks were recorded live at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco. The Winterland Ballroom was an old ice skating rink in San Francisco, California. ... Nickname: The City by the Bay Official website: http://www. ...

Track listing

1. "Crossroads" (Johnson, arr. Clapton) - 4:14
2. "Spoonful" (Dixon) - 16:48
3. "Traintime" (Bruce) - 6:52
4. "Toad" (Baker) - 16:16

Performers are the basic Cream trio of Clapton (guitar, vocal), Baker (drums) and Bruce (bass, lead vocal, harmonica). Crossroads, from Creams 1968 album Wheels of Fire, is a famous and influential blues-rock song. ... Robert Johnson Robert Leroy Johnson (May 8, [1909] – August 16, 1938) can arguably be considered as the most famous Delta blues singer and guitarist in history, and didnt start recording until three years before his death. ... Eric Patrick Clapton CBE (born March 30, 1945), nicknamed Slowhand, is a Grammy Award winning English guitarist, singer and composer, who became one of the most respected and influential musicians of the rock-era, garnering an unprecedented three inductions into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. ... Willie Dixons style of blues was one of the inspirations for a new generation of music, rock and roll. ... Toad is a song by British rock band Cream appearing on their 1966 debut album, Fresh Cream. ...