Ginger Baker's career - in pictures

Ginger Baker performing with Cream in 1965 Photograph: Dezo Hoffmann/Rex Features

Cream on Ready Steady Go in 1966 Photograph: Pictorial Press Ltd/Alamy

Ginger Baker with Eric Clapton and Jack Bruce in Cream's heyday Photograph: Dezo Hoffmann/Rex Features

Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker and Eric Clapton of British rock group Cream in February 1968 Photograph: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images

Ginger Baker performing live in Hamburg, Germany in 1967 Photograph: Jan Persson/Redferns/Getty Images

Baker photographed in 1970 with his mother Ruby Streatfield Photograph: John Olson/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Image

The Baker Gurvitz Army perform at the Oxford New Theatre in February 1975 Photograph: Andre Csillag/Rex Features

Drummers Carmine Appice, Ginger Baker and Alex Van Halen being inducted to the RockWalk in Hollywood in 1991 Photograph: Ron Galella/WireImage

The band Cream reunite to perform in concert in Madison Square Gardens in October 2005 Photograph: Startraks Photo/Rex Features

Ginger Baker photographed in 2008 for the Guardian Photograph: David Levene

Ginger Baker's Jazz Confusion performs on stage at Warwick Arts Centre in September 2012 in Coventry Photograph: Steve Thorne/Redferns via Getty Images