[don'tbedenied]

I loved Cream, had all of their albums. But I have to disagree with you re:songwriting. The Beatles were far, far superior. Lennon or McCartney as Beatles wrote more important and memorable songs than Bruce, Clapton and Baker (Toad?) combined did as Cream. That's not even counting Harrison. The Beatles were so bizarrely talented as songwriters it's just sick.

[Marauder]

Lennon and McCartney are still in the Guiness Book of Records for being the most prolific songwriting duo ever. Or they were last time I looked.

IMO, the reason they were so talented was that one was an extraordinary lyricist and the other was extraordinarily talented at musical arrangements.

You can listen to their subsequent work after their breakup and tell which was which.