In reply to andymac:
> ... Ginger Baker enchanted the ladies so much ,that Germaine Greer went back to his place ...
Gawd! I didn't know that. Who'd've thought it?.
But it seems to be true (at least as far as Ginger is concerned):
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/ginger-baker...
"At a 1969 BBC concert in Shepherds Bush, he caught the eye of Germaine Greer, then 30, in the audience. Unaware that he was pulling the about-to-be-published author of The Female Eunuch, he took her home...She wasn't kinky at al ... just straight, normal, man and woman... She's a really nice girl, Germaine. I've always thought the world of her."
The article also includes this: "I could always play, whether I was totally pissed or totally stoned. You either got it or you haven't." And that, all through his life, is the burden of Baker's song: he always had the talent and musicianship, while around him musical morons came and went and he never received the recognition he craved.