Ginger Baker looks back on his musical career with Cream and Blind Faith; his introduction to Fela Kuti; his self-destructive patterns and losses of fortune; and his current life inside a fortified South African compound.
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"We were very poor. My mother worked in a tobacco shop to support my sister and me. I didn't get my first drum kit until I was 16."