Sunshine of Your Love : Rolling Stone

Written by: Jack Bruce, Pete Brown, Eric Clapton
Produced by: Felix Pappalardi
Released: Jan. '68 on Atco
Charts: 26 weeks
Top spot: No. 5

Bassist Bruce and lyricist-poet Brown came up with "Sunshine" toward the end of an all-night session, which inspired the opening line: "It's getting near dawn/ When lights close their tired eyes." The killer riff was based on a bass ostinato from Bruce; guitarist Clapton added the chorus hook. Bruce knew the song would do well: "Both Booker T. Jones and Otis Redding heard it at Atlantic and told me it was going to be a smash," he recalled.

Appears on: Disraeli Gears (Polydor)

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