How Cream Turned a Poem About Real Estate into the Psychedelic Rock Classic “White Room”
The 60s rock classic White Room by Cream was at least 5 years ahead of it’s time and the amazing lyrics came from one of those ‘gut check’ moments in life, when a person faces great adversity, or despair. It’s at that moment you have to make a decision to fight through the pain to get to a better place,..or.. just give up and fall into the abyss forever.. This episode is about one of those critical life-changing events...With one foot in the grave, poet Peter Brown used a flophouse to be his sanitarium to get rid of a lethal drug addiction, and turn his life around. He wrote a poem about this…
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