Jack Bruce, bassist from 1960s band Cream, has died aged 71, his publicist confirms.
Legendary supergroup Cream, which also included Eric Clapton and Ginger Baker, are now considered one of the most important bands in rock history.
They sold 35 million albums in just over two years and were given the first ever platinum disc for Wheels of Fire.
Bruce wrote and sang most of the songs, including "I Feel Free" and "Sunshine Of Your Love".
Born in the Glasgow suburb of Bishopbriggs in 1943, his parents travelled extensively in Canada and the USA and the young Jack attended 14 different schools.
He finished his formal education at Bellahouston Academy and the Royal Scottish Academy of Music, to which he won a scholarship for cello and composition.
He left the academy and Scotland at the age of 16 and eventually found his way to London where he became a member of the influential Alexis Korner's Blues Inc, where Charlie Watts, later to join the Rolling Stones, was the drummer.
He played in a number of bands throughout the early 60s, including John Mayall's Blues Breakers and Manfred Mann before joining Clapton and Baker in Cream.
Cream split in November 1968 at the height of their popularity, with Bruce feeling he had strayed too far from his ideals.
Bruce never again reached the commercial heights he did with Cream but his reputation as one of the best bass guitarists in the business grew throughout the subsequent decades.
In May 2005, he reunited with his former Cream bandmates for a series of concerts at London's Royal Albert Hall.
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“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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We age
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts
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I decided against that option.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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I am gutted. All round great musician and good bloke. RIP Jack.
Why is it that when Miley Cyrus gets naked and licks a hammer it's 'art' and 'edgy' but when I do it I'm 'drunk' and 'banned from the hardware store'?
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Commiserations from an unlikely source..
Speaking from a hotel in the Republic of Ireland, Baker, 75, said: "We go back a long way, I called him Wee Jack. It's a big loss to the world and I'm very sad.
"I found out yesterday when my daughter phoned me and my first reaction was that it was a hoax because I have been reported dead so many times myself, but then it became reality.
"It was quite a while since I last spoke to him but he was a one-off, his approach to music made him special. My feeling is with his wife Margrit and his kids."
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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Between them they carried a three-legged sack,
Went straight round the corner and never came back...
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Pressed rat and warthog?
Was that the B side of Wrapping Paper? No no that was Cat's Squirrel. What was it the B side of? Lord, Wrapping Paper was an aberration - but their first hit as I remember it
Was that the B side of Wrapping Paper? No no that was Cat's Squirrel. What was it the B side of? Lord, Wrapping Paper was an aberration - but their first hit as I remember it
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts
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RIP Jack.
Another person of my youth has passed.
Another person of my youth has passed.
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Jack Bruce was one of the inventors of modern electric bass playing; his sound and style pretty much defined the entire genre of blues-based rock and set the foundation for prog. So sad to hear of his passing.
GAH!
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It is sad to lose another great, and yet Keith Richards goes on.
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It was the B-side of Anyone for Tennis... Another aberration.MajGenl.Meade wrote:Pressed rat and warthog?
Was that the B side of Wrapping Paper? No no that was Cat's Squirrel. What was it the B side of? Lord, Wrapping Paper was an aberration - but their first hit as I remember it
Why is it that when Miley Cyrus gets naked and licks a hammer it's 'art' and 'edgy' but when I do it I'm 'drunk' and 'banned from the hardware store'?
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No, more just amazed at his regeneration powers; I thought he wa a goner when he fell out of the palm tree a while back.Sue U wrote:Why you hatin' on Keith? Are you a Ronnie Wood fan or sumthin?
The right combination of drugs over an extended period apparently works wonders.
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Those drugs have also helped him maintain his youthful appearance...Big RR wrote:The right combination of drugs over an extended period apparently works wonders.
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Yeah, he does look a lot like the crypt keeper, doesn't he?
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"I outlived Michael Jackson. Bet you didn't see that coming." -- Keith Richards
GAH!
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You're presuming Michael Jackson was actually alive at one point.
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“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”