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Cream

A British rock group consisting of guitarist Eric Clapton, bassist Jack Bruce, and drummer Ginger Baker. It is often called the first supergroup in the history of rock music. Bold experiments in the field of weighing and densifying the blues-rock sound allow Cream to be considered, alongside Jimi Hendrix, as one of the founders of hard rock. In Sam Dunn's film Metal: A Headbanger's Journey, the group is named among those standing at the origins of the heavy metal style and tops the list of bands that played so-called "early metal." Having existed for a little over two years, Cream exerted a significant influence on the development of rock, laying the foundation for the blues-rock and hard rock of the late 60s and early 70s.