Wheels of Fire is the third album by the British rock band Cream. It was released in the US in June 1968 as a two-disc vinyl LP, with one disc recorded in the studio and the other recorded live. It was released in the UK on August 9. It reached numb…
Wheels of Fire is the third album by the British rock band Cream. It was released in the US in June 1968 as a two-disc vinyl LP, with one disc recorded in the studio and the other recorded live. It was released in the UK on August 9. It reached number three in the United Kingdom and number one in the United States, Canada and Australia, becoming the world's first platinum-selling double album. In May 2012, Rolling Stone magazine ranked it at number 205 on its list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. It was voted number 757 in the third edition of Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums (2000).
Tracklist:
Disc One: In the Studio
0:00 White Room
5:03 Sitting on Top of the World
10:04 Passing the Time
14:41 As You Said
19:06 Pressed Rat and Warthog
22:24 Politician
26:41 Those Were the Days
29:38 Born Under a Bad Sign
32:52 Deserted Cities of the Heart
36:33 Anyone For Tennis
Disc Two: Live at the Fillmore
39:15 Crossroads
43:35 Spoonful
1:00:29 Traintime
1:07:29 Toad
Personnel
Per liner notes
Ginger Baker – drums, percussion, bells, glockenspiel, timpani, vocals, spoken word on "Pressed Rat and Warthog"
Jack Bruce – lead vocals, bass guitar, cello, harmonica, calliope, acoustic guitar, recorder
Eric Clapton – guitar, vocals
Felix Pappalardi – viola, bells, organ, trumpet, tonette
Tom Dowd – recording engineer on disc one
Adrian Barber – recording engineer on disc one, re-mix engineer on disc two
Joseph M. Palmaccio – digital remastering
Martin Sharp – art
Jim Marshall – photography
Bill Halverson – recording engineer on disc two
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