jeff bebe "But He does represent The Magazine that trashed "layla", broke up Cream, Ripped every album led zeppelin ever made".
Did Rolling Stone magazine rip every album by Led Zeppelin.
Rolling Stone was not kind to people's bands like Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Rush, Black Sabbath, AC/DC. They focused on "critic's bands" like Velvet Underground, Iggy Pop, R.E.M., Talking Heads, etc.
shareThe heading of your post piqued my interest. The line ("broke up Cream") went right past me in the movie, and I didn't really reflect on whether it was just the character being hyperbolic or a reference to something in real life.
Given Cameron Crowe's interest in (and inside knowledge of) real-life rock history, it shouldn't be surprising that it wasn't just random hyperbole.
It's an interesting, and weirdly unlikely, story (and easily found on the Internet). It started as a review written by Jon Landau, as a college student, for the Brandeis school paper, which later appeared in some form in Rolling Stone. And apparently it really did play a role in breaking up the band - though, of course, a band that wasn't already fragile on an interpersonal level to start with wouldn't have been rent asunder by a review.
Clapton at least claims that reading the review made him pass out. In Landau's defense (against Jeff Beebe), the reason it affected him was because he realized it was right.
Timothy Schmitt of the Eagles said it best.
"In my experience, all rock bands are on the verge of breaking up at all times"
Seems to me that bands would probably break up over a lot less than a magazine article.
Rolling Stone did not break up Cream. The 3 huge egos of Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker broke up Cream.
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