40th Anniversary of Cream debut at The Marquee Club
August 16th, 2006
40 years ago today Cream played their legendary debut at the Marquee club at The Marquee Club. Before this show, they had also headlined the 6th National Jazz and Blues Festival of 1967 celebrated at Windsor Racecourse and organized by the Marquee club and the National Jazz Federation, on the 31st of July. It was the second concert of their career.
In December 1966 Cream released their debut album "Fresh Cream" which was mainly oriented towards blues and reached the British Top Ten early the next year. Considered as the first super-band in the history of rock music, Cream is one of the most significant bands ever which influenced the future generations of artists, despite of the short existence of the band. Along with Jimi Hendrix, Cream created some of the most classic rock riffs from the ’60s and broke the confines of the standard rock music in a unit that would allow improvisational freedom.