'C' The Well

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I co-wrote Badge with Eric Clapton. The group Cream decided they were making one last album together and they all had to turn up on such and such a day with a new song each. Eric had some of the melody and I helped him finish the tune and then wrote the words. While writing the words we got to the middle part which I call the ‘bridge’, so I put that on the paper with the words. Eric was sitting opposite me and he looked at the paper - upside down to him - and cracked up: he said ‘what’s that - badge?’ and I said ‘it’s bridge’. So later Eric called the song ‘Badge’. Later Ringo came in - he was absolutely plastered - and we were up to the lines:

‘I told you not to drive around in the dark,
I told you …’

and Ringo said:

‘…about the swans that live in the park.’

It’s a bit silly, but that’s what happened, folks.

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