Ginger Baker’s career – in pictures The drummer best known for his work with Cream and Blind Faith is the subject of a new documentary. Here we look at his career so far Tweet Ginger Baker performing with Cream in 1965 Photograph: Dezo Hoffmann/Rex Features Cream on Ready Steady Go in 1966 Photograph: Pictorial Press Ltd/Alamy Ginger Baker with Eric Clapton and Jack Bruce in Cream's heyday Photograph: Dezo Hoffmann/Rex Features Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker and Eric Clapton of British rock group Cream in February 1968 Photograph: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Ginger Baker performing live in Hamburg, Germany in 1967 Photograph: Jan Persson/Redferns/Getty Images Baker photographed in 1970 with his mother Ruby Streatfield Photograph: John Olson/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Image The Baker Gurvitz Army perform at the Oxford New Theatre in February 1975 Photograph: Andre Csillag/Rex Features Drummers Carmine Appice, Ginger Baker and Alex Van Halen being inducted to the RockWalk in Hollywood in 1991 Photograph: Ron Galella/WireImage The band Cream reunite to perform in concert in Madison Square Gardens in October 2005 Photograph: Startraks Photo/Rex Features Ginger Baker photographed in 2008 for the Guardian Photograph: David Levene Ginger Baker's Jazz Confusion performs on stage at Warwick Arts Centre in September 2012 in Coventry Photograph: Steve Thorne/Redferns via Getty Images
Greatest damn Drummer ever.