Pete Brown helped write some of Cream's biggest hits of all time, despite never being in the rock band himself.

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NEW YORK - MAY 30: Musician Jack Bruce poses for a portrait on May 30, 2001 in New York City, New York. (Photo by Karjean Levine/Getty Images) In 1997, I spent the day with Jack Bruce, the great Cream ...

Before Cream imploded and played its final concert in London in November of 1968, the pioneering power trio ignited in San Diego during its U.S. farewell tour a month earlier. The tour marked both a ...

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