Badge (song)

"Badge"
German single picture sleeve
Single by Cream
from the album Goodbye
B-side"What a Bringdown"
Released
  • February 1969 (1969-02) (album)
  • March 1969 (US single)
  • April 1969 (UK single)
Recorded21 November 1968[1]
StudioIBC, London
Genre
Length2:43
LabelAtco
Songwriter(s)Eric Clapton, George Harrison
Producer(s)Felix Pappalardi
Cream US singles chronology
"Crossroads"
(1969) 		"Badge"
(1969) 		"Lawdy Mama"
(1970)
Cream UK singles chronology
"White Room"
(1969) 		"Badge"
(1969)
Audio sample
29 second vocal segment

"Badge" is a song written by Eric Clapton and George Harrison,[4] and recorded by British rock music group Cream on their final album, Goodbye. Also issued as a single in March 1969, "Badge" peaked at number 18 in the UK Singles Chart[5] and number 60 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart.[6]

  1. ^ "George Harrison Performs on Badge by Cream". Beatles Bible. Retrieved 15 September 2024.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference bb was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Bradley, Larry (4 November 2014). "The 1960s: Cream - "Badge". The Alternative Jukebox. Cassell. p. 27. ISBN 978-1-84403-789-6.
  4. ^ Castleman, Harry; Podrazik, Walter J. (1977). "1969 – 'But If Paul's Alive, How Did He Die?'". All Together Now – The First Complete Beatles Discography 1961–1975 (Second ed.). New York: Ballantine Books. p. 73. ISBN 0-345-25680-8.
  5. ^ "UK Top 40 Chart Archive, British Singles & Album Charts". Everyhit.com. Retrieved 8 February 2015.
  6. ^ "The Billboard Hot 100 – Chart Listing For The Week Of May 03 1969". Billboard. Retrieved 18 January 2009.