Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Bootsy Collins Songs, Funkadelic Songs, George Clinton Songs, Parliament Songs, the Parliaments Songs, Sunshine of Your Love, Atomic Dog, Because, Maggot Brain, Give up the Funk, Star 69 / Weapon of Choice, Flash Light, (Not Just) Knee Deep, Walk the Dinosaur, Get Off Your Ass and Jam, One Nation Under a Groove, Let's Take It to the Stage, Chocolate City, (I Wanna) Testify, Bop Gun, Bootzilla, Mothership Connection, Do Fries Go With That Shake?, the Goose, up for the Down Stroke, Funkentelechy, the Pinocchio Theory, Heart Trouble, Fantasy Is Reality, Do That Stuff, P. Funk, Body Slam, Party People, Poor Willie, Dr. Funkenstein, the Electric Spanking of War Babies, Lonely Island, Loopzilla, Common Law Wife. Excerpt: "Sunshine of Your Love" is a song by the British supergroup Cream, released on the Disraeli Gears album. It was Cream's best-selling song and Atlantic Records' best-selling to date as well. It features a distinctive guitar/bass guitar riff and an acclaimed guitar solo from Eric Clapton. It was written by bassist Jack Bruce, lyricist Pete Brown, and guitarist Clapton. Development of the song began in January 1967 when Bruce and Clapton attended a Jimi Hendrix show at the Saville Theatre in London. Inspired by Hendrix's performance, Bruce returned home and wrote the memorable bass riff that runs throughout the song. Most of the lyrics to "Sunshine of Your Love" were written during an all-night creative session between Bruce and Brown, a poet who worked with the band: "I picked up my double bass and played the riff. Pete looked out the window and the sun was coming up. He wrote 'It's getting near dawn and lights close their tired eyes'" Clapton later wrote the chorus ("I've been waiting so long") which also yielded the song's title.... More: