10 Most Dramatic Band Splits In Music History
4. Cream
With the 60's psychedelic movement gaining greater notoriety by the day, Cream emerged as one of the greatest supergroups to emerge from the scene. Though the band could create immaculate fusions of pop,blues, and jazz, the band were plagued with tension from the very beginning.
The first hiccup in the band came from Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker, who did not get along famously at all. As part of the Cream sound, the group would stack amps to fill out the sound of just three people. This ended up being a bit of a detriment to the band's well-being when the motivation shifted from creating a heavy sound to trying to drown out the other members onstage. Guitarist Eric Clapton even went on record saying that he even stopped playing during some gigs and no one in the band would even notice.
After the tour for their album Wheels of Fire, Clapton admitted that the spark of creativity had dwindled and the group had simply devolved from a collaborative team to just showing off for the sake of showing off. Quickly knocking out a new record with a couple of new studio tracks, the band aptly titled the album Goodbye, after which each member of the band went their separate ways.