Former KLOL-FM listeners can take solace in this

This London Telegraph article reports the following soothing news for former listerners of Houston’s KLOL-FM:

Eric Clapton has astounded the music world by finally agreeing to reform Cream, rock’s first supergroup, 36 years after they split up at the height of their worldwide fame.

John Mayall, the veteran leader of the Bluesbreakers, the British band from which Clapton defected to create Cream in 1966, said yesterday: “I’m amazed. But Eric is always doing something unexpected. He moves in so many directions, always out front with his music.”
Sources close to the musicians said that reunion plans were under way, with Clapton, 59, Jack Bruce, 61, and Ginger Baker, 65, talking of “probably two gigs, or maybe more” at the Royal Albert Hall in May, although that venue, where Clapton staged his traditional blues stint this spring, has yet to be booked.

“A reunion of Cream would be a classic show,” Mayall went on to say. “The band was so influential. They helped pave the way for me in America. The Beatles were first. The Rolling Stones were next. Then there was Cream. I had my first US tour in 1968, and moved there a year later.”
Cream members are staying silent at the moment about their plans. A spokesman for Clapton said that he had no comment. Bruce was on holiday, and there was no reply from Baker’s farm in South Africa, where he raises polo ponies.

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