Ginger Baker: 'I’m not an easy person to get on with' – a classic interview from the vaults

The great drummer has turned 76, and to mark the occasion, here’s a classic Disc and Music Echo interview from 1970 with the Cream founder, taken from Rock’s Backpages, the home of online music writingGinger Baker is 31 years old and you don’t ignore him. You can’t. He has accumulated a monstrous reputation over the past 10 years that makes him the wildest, most uncontrollable musician around. It goes before him into any room so that people, rather unjustly, tend to recoi