On this day, 6 October 2019, Ginger Baker, the legendary drummer featured on the song ‘Let’s Start‘ by Fela, one of the soundtracks in the 2021 movie ‘The Harder They Fall’, died at the age of 80.
In 1973, he was one of the first to open one of the most equipped privately owned music studios in Lagos. It was called the Arc Studios.

The drummer co-founded Cream in 1966 with Eric Clapton and Jack Bruce. The band released four albums before splitting in 1968, after which he formed the short-lived band Blind Faith with Clapton, Steve Winwood and Ric Grech. Baker, one of the most innovative and influential drummers in rock music also played with Blind Faith, Hawkwind and Fela Kuti in a long and varied career. In 1962, joined Alexis Korner’s Blues Incorporated on the recommendation of Charlie Watts – who was leaving to join the Rolling Stones and later gained early fame as a member of the Graham Bond Organisation alongside bassist Jack Bruce.