Cream - Badge

Geoge Harrison and Eric Clapton were close friends and they fell in love with the same woman during different time of their lives :

Geoge Harrison married Patricia Ann Boyd in 1966
They Divorced in 1977.
Eric Clapton married Patricia Ann Boyd in 1979
They Divorced in 1988.

"Badge" is a song performed by Cream, written by Eric Clapton and George Harrison. It was included as a track on Cream's final album, Goodbye. Peaking at number 60 on Billboard's Hot 100, "Badge" was a minor hit after its release as a single in April 1969. The single was much more successful in the United Kingdom, where it reached #18.

"Badge" was originally an untitled track. During the production transfer for the album Goodbye, the original music sheet was used to produce the liner notes and track listing. The only discernible word on the page was "bridge" (indicating the song's bridge section). Due to Harrison's handwriting, however, Clapton misread it as "badge" — and the song was titled soon thereafter.

Harrison remembered the story differently: "I helped Eric write 'Badge' you know. Each of them had to come up with a song for that Goodbye Cream album and Eric didn't have his written. We were working across from each other and I was writing the lyrics down and we came to the middle part so I wrote 'Bridge.' Eric read it upside down and cracked up laughing-- 'What's BADGE?' he said. After that, Ringo walked in drunk and gave us that line about the swans living in the park."

A common legend or misconception is that the name came about because its chord progression is B-A-D-G-E (it is not), or simply because an anagram of a guitar's standard tuning (E-A-D-G-B-E) can be arranged to spell "Badge".

A live performance of the song from Clapton's album 24 Nights features him singing the refrain "where is my badge?", incorporating the title into the song.

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• george
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• patty
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• cream
• beatles

[emwavemhz]

So that's Layla!

[DrWinstonBoogie]

@emwavemhz You are right. Clapton fell in love with Pattie while she was married George and wrote Layla.

[gorblimey61]

Didn't E.C. kinda "steal" Patty from George?

[DrWinstonBoogie]

@gorblimey61 Yes. but at least they remained friends

[youspoppa]

Nice slideshow, but: who's the band in the army uniforms??

[DrWinstonBoogie]

@youspoppa Thanks for watching! The picture was taken from the 1985 movie ''Water'' produced by HandMade Films, the film production company of George. Along with George and Eric we can see Billy Connolly, Chris Tummings and Ringo in the back on drums.

[slicknipper]

It is amazing how you common people live in the superficial place of the artists like a soap opera get a life and try for yourselfs to make some positive change in the real world

[1danrobbins]

Fell in love with this song the first time I listen to the solo with headphones. I get instant flashbacks to all the Clapton is God writings painted on the walls.

[Mstar82]

I play this atm in my bass lessons and the bass line is sick but it gets pretty hard from the guitar solo on... it kind of drives me nuts all these fcking semiquavers >:/

I am 19 btw and usually don't listen to music like this (I actually not really like all that rock music from the 60s and 70s) but its a mint song and its fun to play bass along :)

[SmokesShowin]

Guess there is little question which one of the Beatles got the better women.

[tkatfun]

Thank you for posting this video. Great quality and coreograpy, ( or however u spell it) One of my favorite songs, by Cream!! xo

[emwavemhz]

@sweetsurrender2me ;-)

[sweetsurrender2me]

@emwavemhz rumor has it

[zygotusmaximus]

A most haunting song. Never get tired if this

[kmars21]

my favorite Cream song..and Patti is such a babe

[MrShoeman21]

george was with her when she was fresh and vibriant. eric got the left overs.