Cream -- Wheels of Fire

“Wheels of Fire,” Cream’s double album, hit the top of the U.S. charts 40 years ago today and later became the world’s first platinum-selling album.  The album’s sleeve, designed by Australian pop artist and cartoonist Martin Sharp, won the New York Art Directors Prize for Best Album Design in 1969.

Here’s the band in November 1968  performing “White Room,” the opening track on the album.

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