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It's covered up but of course Ginger Baker was a member of the peerage and from great wealth. His "bricklayer" father was nothing of the sort - he worked for his own father who owned a building company for example.
ditto Eric Clapton.
Ginger Baker's father, Frederick Louvain Formidable Baker, was a bricklayer employed by his own father, who owned a building business.
Frederick Louvain Formidable Baker (construction company director) - sound like a poor man?
why on Earth does it matter? ask yourself if it doesn't matter why these biographical details are concealed and effaced to this very day for all these rockers? #LaurelCanyon #DaveMcGowan
@threadreaderapp unroll my flirtation with Dave McGowan CFAIA / Miles Mathis peerage obsession please good and kind little robo :)
