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Wheels of Fire

This article is about the 1968 album by Cream. For the 1985 film, see Wheels of Fire (film). For the Judas Priest song, see Angel of Retribution.

Wheels of Fire
Studio album / Live album by
Cream
ReleasedJune 14, 1968 (1968-06-14) (US)[1]
August 9, 1968 (1968-08-09) (UK)
Recorded1967–1968[2]
VenueWinterland & The Fillmore, San Francisco, California
Studio
Genre
Length35:53 (studio album) 44:23 (live album) 80:16 (total)[3]
LabelPolydor
ProducerFelix Pappalardi
Cream chronology
Disraeli Gears
(1967) 		Wheels of Fire
(1968) 		Goodbye
(1969)
Singles from Wheels of Fire
  1. "White Room"
    Released: November 1968
  2. "Crossroads"
    Released: January 1969
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[4]
About.com[5]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[6]
MusicHound[7]
Rolling Stone(Positive)[8]
Chicago Tribune[9]
Musician(Positive)[10]
The Daily VaultA[11]

Wheels of Fire is the third album by the British rock band Cream. It was released in the US in June 1968 as a two-disc vinyl LP, with one disc recorded in the studio and the other recorded live. It was released in the UK on August 9. It reached number three in the United Kingdom and number one in the United States, Canada and Australia, becoming the world's first platinum-selling double album.[12][13] In May 2012, Rolling Stone magazine ranked it at number 205 on its list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.[14] It was voted number 757 in the third edition of Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums (2000).[15]

It was also released as two single LPs, Wheels of Fire (In the Studio) and Wheels of Fire (Live at the Fillmore), released together with similar cover art. In the UK the studio album art was black print on aluminium foil, while the live album art was a negative image of the studio cover. In Japan, the studio album art was black on gold foil, while the live album art was black on aluminium foil. In Australia, both covers were laminated copies of the Japanese releases.

  1. ^ Billboard July 6, 1968, page 6
  2. ^ Cream (1968). Wheels of Fire (Billboard 6 July 1968). United States: Nielsen Business Media, Inc.
  3. ^ "Wheels of Fire - Cream | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic.
  4. ^ "Wheels of Fire". AllMusic. Retrieved 26 December 2013.
  5. ^ "History of Cream". about.com. Retrieved 26 December 2013.
  6. ^ Larkin, Colin (2013). "Cream: Albums". The Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Random House. eBook. ISBN 978-1448132744.
  7. ^ "Cream: Wheels of Fire". Archived from the original on 22 January 2016. Retrieved 23 April 2017.
  8. ^ "500 Greatest Albums of All Time". Rolling Stone.
  9. ^ "It's A Roller-coaster Career From Blues To Pop And Back". 21 February 1993.
  10. ^ "Wheels of Fire – Product Reviews – Musician". cduniverse.com. Retrieved 27 May 2018.
  11. ^ Bowling, David (2019). "The Daily Vault Music Reviews: Wheels of Fire". dailyvault.com. Retrieved 17 February 2019.
  12. ^ Shirese Franklin (6 October 2019). "Cream – British Rock Group". Encyclopaedia Britannica. Retrieved 17 November 2019.
  13. ^ "Cream – the Band". h2g2. 20 September 2000.
  14. ^ "News". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 10 May 2007.
  15. ^ Colin Larkin (2006). All Time Top 1000 Albums (3rd ed.). Virgin Books. p. 240. ISBN 0-7535-0493-6.

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