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The 1969 song "Badge", by Cream , was penned by Eric Clapton and George Harrison during a collaborative effort between Clapton, Harrison and Ringo Starr . Although it was paired with one of Cream's less notable songs, "What a Bringdown", Badge was nonetheless a major hit when it was released as a single in April of 1969, following release of the album '' Goodbye '' in January. It was originally an untitled track. During the production transfer for the album ''Goodbye'', the original music sheet was used to produce the Liner Notes and track listing. The only discernible word on the page was " Bridge " — a notation intended to identify the transitional moment in the song. Clapton's handwriting, however, was so bad, that Ringo Starr looked at it and thought it said "Badge" — so the band named it ''Badge''. Harrison told the story differently, however: "I helped Eric write 'Badge' you know. Each of them had to come up with a song for that ''Goodbye Cream'' album and Eric didn't have his written. We were working across from each other and I was writing the lyrics down and we came to the middle part so I wrote 'Bridge.' Eric read it upside down and cracked up laughing-- 'What's BADGE?' he said. After that Ringo walked in drunk and gave us that line about the swans living in the park." A common legend or misconception is that the name came about because its Chord Progression is B-A-D-G-E (it is not)1, or simply because an anagram of a guitar's string tuning (E-A-D-G-B-E) can spell "Badge". It was this musical bridge, a series of Arpeggio s played through a Leslie Speaker , that provided the inspiration for Harrison's later Beatles song " Here Comes The Sun " for the album '' Abbey Road '', and would inspire a similar arpeggio at the end of two other ''Abbey Road'' tracks, " You Never Give Me Your Money " and " Carry That Weight ". ORIGINAL ''GOODBYE'' PERFORMERS
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