Ginger Baker - Hellraiser: The Autobiography of The World's Greatest Drummer

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Kings Road Publishing, Jun 7, 2010 - Biography & Autobiography - 300 pages
Peter 'Ginger' Baker is a legend. A pioneering drummer who transcends genre, he's done much to popularise world music with his fierce passion for the rhythms of Africa. He is that rare thing - both critically acclaimed and globally successful. He has also lived a life more rock'n'roll than most.Ginger tells his story for the first time. It's often harrowing but outrageously honest as he journey's from war-torn south London to his adopted home in South Africa's beautiful Western Cape - where he has his own polo club. Along the way he tells of his life-long love of jazz, how he discovered the drums, life on the road and reveals the heroin use that should have killed him. He talks candidly of his three marriages, his induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with Cream in 1993, their 2005 reunion and his own plans for the future.
 

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Title Page Dedication Introduction
Memories of
Schooldays and Cycling
Drums
Phil Seamen
The Road to Graham Bond
The Graham Bond Organisation
Cream
Blind Faith
Air Force
Hendrix
Africa Chapter 15 Holidays Chapter 16 Ginger Baker in Africa
1971
Salt and the Batakota Studios
The Argungu Rally
Polo in Nigeria

Disraeli Gears
Cream 1968
Goodbye Cream
The Kalakuta Party
The TransSahara Trucking Company and the Baker
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Ginger Baker was born in Lewisham, London in 1939 and brought up along with his sister and cousin by his mother and aunt. After forging his reputation on the London jazz scene, he found phenomenal success by forming Cream with Jack Bruce and Eric Clapton in 1966. Ginger lives in South Africa, where he is an avid correpsondent to the letters pages of various polo publications.

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