The True Spirit of Rock`n Roll

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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!”

To cheers, he said: “We’ll probably play everything we know – we’ll play as long as we can.”

Their set included all their most famous songs, including Crossroads, Spoonful and White Room.

In their youth, Cream were famous for their lengthy improvisations – Clapton said recently that they used to be so stoned they would forget what song they were playing and would continue improvising until they remembered.

Tonight the songs were shorter so it was unlikely that Clapton – a reformed alcoholic and a former heroin addict – ever forgot what he was playing.

During their short time together in the Sixties, blues-rockers Cream produced three studio albums and toured extensively in the US.

Their biggest hit single was Sunshine of Your Love, which was tonight’s encore.

After they split up in 1968, Clapton went on to form Blind Faith and Derek and the Dominoes – with whom he recorded the classic single Layla – followed by a successful solo career.

Bruce and Baker formed bands of their own but never achieved the same success that they had with Cream.

The only previous time the three musicians had played together since 1968 was a brief appearance in 1993 when they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.