#music, Great British Bands Chapter 8: Blind Faith

Now this was a band that blew me away the first time I heard them. I think I was in my last year of High School and at school when someone brought in their record and wow!… I bought it and still have the old vinyl… This was a supergroup, perhaps the first one in the history of rock.

When you have a band that has Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood, Ginger Baker and Ric Grech, what do you have? You have it all…. They debuted with the album Blind Faith in 1969, their one and only one and it topped the charts both in the UK and in the US. Of course the band did not last too long. Did you really expect that with such a lineup it would? But they left us music forever in that album. This is the original cover…

And of course, with today’s censorship and puritanical standards, the complete photograph cannot be shown. Incredible!

Bob Seidemann, the photographer who did the original (banned) cover said that the image symbolises the achievements of human creativity and its expression through the development of technology, i.e. a spaceship. That innocence would be the bearer of those ideals in the form of a young girl, for example a girl as young as Shakespeare’s Juliette. He thought the spaceship would be the future of the tree of science and the girl the future of the tree of life. In any event, you figure it out. For me that’s too much of an explanation but I am not here to judge. I do stand against censorship.

In any event, I hope you enjoy some of the music of this phenomenal album, a true classic.

CHEERS