"Sunshine of Your Love" is a 1967 rock song by the British band Cream, written by Jack Bruce and Eric Clapton, with lyrics by Pete Brown. It is the second track on the album Disraeli Gears and was released as the group's second single, in the United States in December 1967. Felix Pappalardi produced the recording, made in April and May 1967 at Atlantic Studios in New York. Bruce devised the bass riff, a syncopated offbeat figure, after failing to write with Brown. Clapton said Bruce wrote the riff after a Jimi Hendrix concert at the Saville Theatre on 29 January 1967, as a dedication to Hendrix. Music writers describe the riff as blues-derived, built on a minor blues pentatonic with a flattened fifth over a I-IV-I opening, and Clapton's solo uses a "woman tone" on a 1964 Gibson SG.
The song reached number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 in August 1968 and number 25 on the UK Singles Chart. It has been ranked by Rolling Stone, Q and VH1, and it is included in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll. Hendrix often played faster instrumental versions as a tribute. Later covers include versions by Ella Fitzgerald and Gastunk, and Living Colour recorded it for the 1994 film True Lies.
