Sunshine of Your Love

"Sunshine of Your Love", by British supergroup Cream, is from the Disraeli Gears album. It was Cream's best-selling song and their label's best-selling to date as well. It features an immediately recognisable riff (even to those who have never heard the song in its entirety) and an acclaimed guitar solo from Eric Clapton. It was written by bassist Jack Bruce, Peter Brown, and Clapton.

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Cream - Disraeli Gears - Eric Clapton - Jack Bruce

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Clapton's guitar tone on the song, created using his Gibson SG guitar and a Marshall amplifier, is renowned among guitarists as perhaps the best example of his legendary late-'60s "woman tone," a thick yet articulate sound that many have tried to emulate, usually without success.

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Gibson SG - Marshall - Woman tone

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"Sunshine of Your Love" was the band's first big US hit. In the US, this first charted in February, 1968 at #36. With the release of the album in August, it re-entered the chart and went to #5. The song appears on the soundtracks of the movies School of Rock, Goodfellas (also featuring Clapton's later hit "Layla"), Uncommon Valor, and True Lies. The opening riff also appeared at the end of a Futurama episode.

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School of Rock - Goodfellas - Layla - True Lies - Futurama

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Jimi Hendrix performed "Sunshine of Your Love" as a brief instrumental, not knowing that Jack Bruce had been inspired to write that riff from attending one of Hendrix's concerts. A capella singer Bobby McFerrin recorded a voice instrumental version of the song in which he replicates Clapton's guitar solo using only his vocals and some effects processing.

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Jimi Hendrix - A capella - Bobby McFerrin - Voice instrumental

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