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"I'd Love to Change the World" is a song by the British blues rock band Ten Years After. Written by Alvin Lee , it is the lead single from the band's 1971 album A Space in Time . It is the band's only US Top 40 hit, peaking at number 40 on the Billboard Hot 100 , and was on the top ten hit in Canada.
Alvin Lee and Leo Lyons again changed their name in 1966 to Ten Years After – in honour of Elvis Presley, [5] one of Lee's idols. [5] (This was ten years after Presley's successful year, 1956). [4] [6] Some sources [7] claim that the name was pulled by Leo Lyons from a magazine, advertising a book, Suez Ten Years After (referring to the Suez ...
The third track on the album, "I'd Love to Change the World", is also their biggest hit. By combining a melodic acoustic chorus with challenging electric guitar riffs, they managed to produce a sound that hit number 10 in the charts in Canada [citation needed] and number 40 in the US. [4] Although this was their biggest hit, they rarely played ...
Ten Years After had success, releasing ten albums together, but by 1973 Lee was feeling limited by the band's style. Moving to Columbia Records had resulted in a radio hit song, "I'd Love to Change the World" but Lee preferred blues-rock to the pop style the label preferred. He left the group after their second Columbia LP. [6]
This album has less original material than the band's later works, most of which were composed entirely of Alvin Lee's songs. It features " Spoonful ", a song written by Willie Dixon and recorded by Howlin' Wolf , which the British blues rock group Cream had covered the previous year on their debut album Fresh Cream , with an extended live ...
In a retrospective review, Jim Newsom of AllMusic opined that "the band and engineer Andy Johns mix studio tricks and sound effects, blues-based song structures, a driving rhythm section, and Alvin Lee's signature lightning-fast guitar licks into a unified album that flows nicely from start to finish."
Each year when the clock strikes midnight on New Year's, people around the world sing one song in unison. "Auld Lang Syne" has long been a hit at New Year's parties in the U.S. as people join ...
Alvin Lee and Company is an album of material previously unavailable on LP released by their old record label Deram after they had switched to Chrysalis Records in the UK and Columbia Records in the US. It consists of 2 non album singles, "Rock Your Mama" and "Portable People", the latter's b side "The Sounds", a live track, "Crossroads" and ...