Getty Images Peter "Ginger" Baker was born on Aug. 19, 1939, in Lewisham, England. At the age 15 he started playing drums, and by the early '60s he was taking lessons from Phil Seamen, one of ...

Sad news hearing that Ginger Baker has died, I remember playing with him very early on in Alexis Korner’s Blues Incorporated. He was a fiery but extremely talented and innovative drummer.

In his wilder years, Cream drummer Ginger Baker was addicted to drugs, mainly heroin. He was also highly influenced by a crop of jazz drummers from the 1940s, ‘50s and ‘60s. Ginger Baker ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - Ginger Baker laid it on the line: "Two weeks ago, I was at death's door,'' he wheezed to a standing-room-only crowd at the Music Box Supper Club Monday night. "However ...

The 1971 documentary Ginger Baker In Africa captures the early stages of that journey. Baker remained in Lagos until 1980, when his studio finally failed. In his later years, Baker spent time ...

Sad news hearing that Ginger Baker has died, I remember playing with him very early on in Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated. He was a fiery but extremely talented and innovative drummer.

The drummer was known for his hair-trigger temper as much as his music Ginger Baker, one of the most innovative ... gang-members attacked him with a razor. His early ambition was to ride in ...

Drummer Ginger Baker of Cream during a performance, circa 1967 Ginger Baker, the drummer and founder of Cream, has died. He was 80 years old. READ MORE: Ginger Baker, 1939-2019 – the NME ...

Ginger Baker, the wildly influential and innovative drummer who laid the groundwork for heavy metal and world music and played with everyone from Fela Kuti to John Lydon to Max Roach, died Sunday ...

Ginger Baker was a paradox ... recorded in the early Seventies when the drummer set up a studio in Lagos. Baker’s deep well of experience with extended jams served him well here: The strutting ...