The incendiary former Cream drummer, renowned for his epochal talent behind the kit – as well has his fiery personality – has died at the age of 80 English bassist and singer Paul Gurvitz (left) and drummer Ginger Baker, of rock group the Baker Gurvitz Army, in a studio, August 1974. Last year, Ginger Baker‘s son, Kofi, a percussionist, was asked if he felt under pressure to live up to his father’s reputation as the rock’n’roll world’s first superstar drummer. Kofi replied: “My dad is such an asshole that it’s not like I was stressed about making him proud of anything…” In the same interview, he […]The post Ginger Baker, 1939-2019 – the NME obituary appeared first on NME.