He found fame in the 1960s with supergroup Cream and is considered one of the world’s greatest drummers. Bu he\'s also a former heroin addict who has been battling crippling back pain. And a three-year legal dispute nearly pushed him to the brink of bankruptcy. Fortunately, at 70, three-times married rocker Ginger Baker is nowready to tie the knot for the fourth time with Kudzai Machokoto, the 28-year-old Zimbabwean nurse who has been helping him through the tough times.
\"We are getting married soon, we are making the arrangements at the moment. We’ll get married locally but it will be a quiet do, just us and two witnesses.She is good for me and it is time for me to get married again.”
At the height of his success Baker sold 35 million records in two years with Cream bandmates Eric Clapton and Jack Bruce.
His recent autobiography Hellraiser revealed how a lifetime of addiction and wild living had taken a heavy toll. He has been diagnosed with a degenerative spine condition and the onset of emphysema.
A messy legal battle in South Africa – the country where he made his home eleven years ago – has added to his woes.
Ginger Baker was born Peter Edward Baker in Lewisham, South London on 19 August 1939. He wed first wife Liz Finch, 20, in 1959. He married his second wife, only named in his book as Sarah, in 1983 and third wife Karen Loucks, 26, in 1990. He returned to the stage in 2005 for a Cream reunion but later vowed to quit music.
