![Cream reunited after 36 years]( "Cream reunited after 36 years")
Cream reunited after 36 years
Sixties rockers Cream were reunited tonight – more than 36 years since their farewell concert on the same stage.
It was the hottest ticket in town as Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker played the first of four dates at London’s Royal Albert Hall.
Tickets for the shows – with a face value of £50, £75 and £125 – sold out within minutes and were traded almost immediately on eBay for hundreds of pounds more.
Agencies had been offering tickets for the concerts for up to £1,700, and even standing tickets at the top of the huge hall had been advertised for £350.
Tonight the touts were busy outside the Albert Hall.
Many fans had flown over from the US specially for the historic reunion.
Cream split u in 1968 after two years together and Clapton, 60, is said to have agreed to the reunion because of the failing health of the other former members of the band.
Bass player Bruce, 61, has had a liver transplant, and drummer Baker, 65, is said to suffer from arthritis.
But that did not stop the rock veterans playing their best-known songs in a concert lasting nearly two hours.
The band came on stage unannounced to a standing ovation and launched into I’m So Glad.
After three songs, Clapton told the crowd: “Thanks for waiting all those years!”
