How CREAM Turned An 8-Page Poem About An Apartment Into An All-Time Classic; PROFESSOR OF ROCK Investigates (Video)
November 1, 2022, a year ago
Professor Of Rock has released the new video below, along with the following message:
"The 60s rock classic 'White Room' by Cream was at least 5 years ahead of it’s time and the amazing lyrics came from one of those ‘gut check’ moments in life, when a person faces great adversity, or despair. It’s at that moment you have to make a decision to fight through the pain to get to a better place, or just give up and fall into the abyss forever. This episode is about one of those critical life-changing events.
With one foot in the grave, poet Peter Brown used a flophouse to be his sanitarium to get rid of a lethal drug addiction, and turn his life around. He wrote a poem about this watershed period of his life, but mostly about his apartment.
The members of Cream - Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker and Eric Clapton - shortened the poem and added their heavy touch to the song to make a smash in the late 60s influencing Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath with their dynamic approach that pretty much invented heavy metal. Even though the trio only lasted three years because Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker were about to kill each other. Peter Brown was shocked when it became a hit and all time classic. The story is next on Professor Of Rock."
