Goodbye by Cream

Goodbye is exactly what it says: Cream's fourth and final album, released in 1969 after the band had already packed it in. The friction between Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker had pushed them to call it quits in May 1968, but they were talked into one last record and one last tour, which ended with two farewell nights at the Royal Albert Hall that November. Felix Pappalardi, who had been working with them in the studio since Disraeli Gears, produced.

It's a lean, split-down-the-middle affair, three tracks captured live and three made in the studio, with Eric Clapton's guitar, Bruce's bass and Baker's drums still locked in that combustible blues-rock wrestling match. And there's "Badge", the one rock radio has never let go of.

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