It’s such a classic that it’s easy to forget that “White Room” is a freak of nature. It was unlike anything else that was playing on the radio at the time. From Jack Bruce’s opening composition, it seemed to come from another land. And the amazing oddities just kept coming - with Clapton’s wah-wah pedal jamming and Bruce’s angelic falsetto interlude. “White Room” was a case in point that rock and roll could be whatever the hell you wanted it to be.

“I'll wait in this place where the sun never shines. Wait in this place where the shadows run from themselves.”