Blind Faith was a band from 1969.

After Cream had split, Eric Clapton was significantly richer. He met Steve Winwood in his (Eric's) new house, that he had bought with his significant wealth. Both were at loose ends, Steve had just come out of big band Traffic. They ended up forming Blind Faith, that was to earn them plenty more dough.

Along with these two was ex-Cream drummer Ginger Baker, and Rick Grech. They were all stonking musicians. Even Rick (just because you've never heard of him). They released one album, called Blind Faith. It was a stunner (in it's time). It sold an awful lot of copies. Blind Faith had already earned itself a name by having some of the greatest musicians (and biggest names) of the late 60s together in it. On the album you can hear Winwood's beutiful wailing vocals (on par with Jack Bruce), typical class guitar playing by Clapton and the acid-induced ramblings of Ginger Baker. Baker's track was Do What You Like, a 15 minute ballad of drum solos, crazy lyrics, crazy keyboards and strange noises at the end.

A concert witnessed by 100,000 people in Hyde Park was followed by 2 tours. One in America and another in Scandinavia. Blind Faith were being labelled (and sometimes still are) as the world's first supergroup. This is definatly untrue. Let's set the record straight:

Supergroup #1:The Beatles

Supergroup #2:Cream

Supergroup #3:Blind Faith

Blind Faith were terribly popular. That was the problem. It was becoming a prison for Clapton and Winwood.
"I never wanted to be a great star, I wanted only to be a great musician" said Mr W. sounds a lot like Mr C. So because of that, Blind Faith was disbanded. Simple as that. Eric Clapton went onto Derek & The Dominoes, Steve Winwood re-formed Traffic.