Disraeli Gears

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Description: Disraeli Gears is the second album by British blues-rock group Cream. It was released in November 1967 and went on to reach #5 on the UK album chart.It was also their American breakthrough, becoming a massive seller there in 1968, reaching #4 on the American charts.The album features the two singles "Strange Brew" and "Sunshine of Your Love". The title of the album was taken from an inside joke. 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 "derailleu ... (more)

Manufacturer: Reaction (UK); ATCO (US)
Release date: 2 November 1967
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0731453181120 UPC: 731453181120

Tags: 1967 (4), Blues Rock (2), Psychedelic Rock (2), Rock (2), Guy Group (1), Pop/Rock: 60s Rock (1), Pop/Rock (1), Cream (1), UK (1), Hard Rock (1), 1960s (1), Mp3 (1), Eric Clapton (1), Psychedelic (1)

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"Cream's best album distilled their prodigious chops and rhythmic interplay into psychedelic pop that never strayed far from their blues roots. Except for the electricity, "Outside Woman Blues" is nearly identical to Arthur Reynolds' 1930s original. And the riff to "Sunshine of Your Love," written by bassist Jack Bruce, is Delta blues in jab and drive. But Disraeli Gears decisively broke with British blues purism in the ecstatic jangle of "Dance the Night Away," the climbing dismay of "We're Goin"