In his book I Me Mine, George Harrison wrote about how this song came about. Eric was supposed to write a song for the last Cream album (each member of the group Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker did as well) and he needed help with it. Eric wrote most of the music, and George the lyrics, which were based on the unintelligible rantings of Ringo Starr (who never got an official credit btw..George said that the swans in the park etc was very Ringo) When it was all written out, as the above poster mentioned, Eric could not read George's hand writing and said, what is this badge? and George said he called the song Badge, because it made him laugh. I have heard the the solo in Here Comes the Sun was based on the one in this song....that is another story though.
In his book I Me Mine, George Harrison wrote about how this song came about. Eric was supposed to write a song for the last Cream album (each member of the group Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker did as well) and he needed help with it. Eric wrote most of the music, and George the lyrics, which were based on the unintelligible rantings of Ringo Starr (who never got an official credit btw..George said that the swans in the park etc was very Ringo) When it was all written out, as the above poster mentioned, Eric could not read George's hand writing and said, what is this badge? and George said he called the song Badge, because it made him laugh. I have heard the the solo in Here Comes the Sun was based on the one in this song....that is another story though.