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Ten Years After - Alvin Lee "I'm Going Home" (1969) Dead Age 68 (1944-2013)
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- description: Alvin Lee "I'd Love To Change The World" (1971) https://vimeo.com/61238680 Alvin Lee Official Website http://www.alvinlee.com/ Alvin Lee Facts http://www.answers.com/topic/alvin-lee https://www.facebook.com/TodayEntertainment/posts/479086258811246 Woodstock Festival History: August 15-16-17 1969 http://www.bethelwoodscenter.org/museum/festivalhistory.aspx Ten Years After, with dynamic front man Alvin Lee, was born of the second British Blues invasion and from 1966 to 1975 they rocked their way into musical history. From the Midlands of England to a residency at London's famed Marquee Club to the Fillmore West in San Francisco, Ten Years After ride to fame was built on some of the finest and most innovative blues/jazz/rock music being offered. Catapulted into superstardom as a result of the 1969 Woodstock Festival, Alvin's Lee's dazzling performance in front of nearly 500,000 rock fans is still considered a standard by which other rock guitarists judge themselves. Lee's lead guitar and vocals were bolstered by the exceptional talents of Leo Lyons on bass, Ric Lee on drums and Chick Churchill on keyboards, and Ten Years After proved to be a powerhouse of great blues rock. Ten Years After is an English blues-rock band, most popular in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Between 1968 and 1973, Ten Years After scored eight Top 40 albums on the UK Albums Chart. In addition they have had twelve albums enter the US Billboard 200, and are best known for their tracks "I'm Going Home", "Hear Me Calling", "I'd Love To Change the World" and "Love Like a Man". After several years of local success in the Nottingham/Mansfield area as a band known since 1962 as The Jaybirds (its core was formed in late 1960 as Ivan Jay and the Jaycats), and later as Ivan Jay and the Jaymen, Ten Years After was founded by Alvin Lee and Leo Lyons. Ivan Jay sang lead vocals from late 1960 to 1962 and was joined by Ric Lee in August 1965, replacing drummer Dave Quickmire, who had replaced Pete Evans in 1962. In 1966 The Jaybirds moved to London, where Chick Churchill joined the group. That November the quartet signed a manager, Chris Wright, and decided to change its name to Blues Trip, Blues Yard (under which they played a show at the Marquee Club supporting the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band), and finally in June 1967, to Ten Years After.The group became the first act booked by the soon-to-be Chrysalis Agency. It secured a residency at the Marquee, and received an invitation to play at the Windsor Jazz Festival in 1967. That performance led to a contract with Drama subsidiary of Decca -- the first band so signed without a hit single. In October, its 1967 self-titled debut album was released. In 1968 after touring Scandinavia and the United States, Ten Years After released its second album, the live Undead, which brought the noteworthy song "I'm Going Home". This was followed in February 1969 by the studio issue Stonedhenge, a British hit, that included another well-known track, "Hear Me Calling" (it was released also as a single, and covered in 1972 by the British glam rock rising stars, Slade). In July 1969 the group appeared at the Newport Jazz Festival, in the first event to which rock bands were invited. On August 17th, the band performed a breakthrough American appearance at Woodstock; their rendition of "I'm Going Home" featuring Alvin Lee as lead singer, was featured in both the subsequent film and soundtrack album and catapulted them to star status. During 1970, Ten Years After released "Love Like a Man", the group's only hit in the UK Singles Chart. This song was on the band's fifth album, Cricklewood Green.The name of the album comes from a friend of the group who lived in Cricklewood, London. He grew a sort of plant which was said to have hallucinogenic effects. The band did not know the name of this plant, so the members called their album Cricklewood Green. It was the first record to be issued with a different playing speed on each side -- one a three-minute edit at 45rpm, the other, a nearly eight-minute live version at 33rpm. In August 1970, Ten Years After played the Strawberry Fields Festival near Toronto, and the Isle of Wight Festival 1970. In 1971 the band switched labels to Columbia Records and released the hit album A Space in Time, which marked a move toward more commercial material. It featured the group's biggest hit, "I'd Love to Change the World". In late 1972 the group issued their second Columbia album Rock & Roll Music to the World and in 1973 the live double album Ten Years After Recorded Live. The band subsequently broke up after their final 1974 Columbia album Positive Vibrations. The members reunited in 1983 to play the Reading Festival,and this performance was later released on CD as The Friday Rock Show Sessions - Live At Reading '83' . In 1988 the members reunited for a few concerts and recorded the album About Time (1989). In 1994, they participated in the Euro Woodstock festival in Budapest.
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