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Blind Faith

A British rock band formed in 1968 in the county of Surrey, England; it included Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, and Steve Winwood, and later Ric Grech. Blind Faith, one of the first supergroups in the history of rock music, in stylistic terms differed little from the lineups in which three of the four members had played before: Traffic and Cream. Blind Faith recorded only one album, Blind Faith, which was released in August 1969 and immediately topped the charts in the USA and Great Britain. Rock critic Bruce Eder called the band both the culmination of the development of rock music of the late 1960s and the "greatest disaster that symbolized all the flaws of the music business of that time." The supergroup, which aroused incredible excitement (and ultimately served as the reason for the merger of two record companies into a third, Warner Bros.), clearly prematurely set out on an American tour: the lack of cohesion extremely irritated Clapton, known for his perfectionism. Shocked by the excessive attention paid to them and, at the same time, dissatisfied with themselves and their repertoire, the musicians decided not to release a second album; after the American tour, the band broke up.