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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 ...
Billy Walker gave the album a generally positive review in Sounds.He noted the atypically soft sound of songs such as "Over the Hill" and "Let the Sky Fall" and approved of this "unexpected but pleasing dimension to the overall feel of the album", while simultaneously praising "the old TYA excitement" of tracks such as "I'd Love to Change the World" and "Baby Won't You Let Me Rock 'n' Roll You".
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]
[10] Ten Years After: Released: 27 October 1967; Label: ... "I'd Love to Change the World" [G] ... Alvin Lee and Company
DeWyze’s sixth studio album, Gone For Days, which is out on Sept. 13, is the result of and a love letter to the two months he spent writing, recording, and living in Bristol.
Tiffany was just 14 years old when her breakthrough cover of Tommy James and the Shondells’ 1967 hit “I Think We’re Alone Now” reached the top of the charts in 1987.
Lee has been in Ten Years After since the group was formed in 1966. He has played on all their records, including their best known tracks " Love Like a Man " (1970) and " I'd Love to Change the World " (1971), and still tours with them as of 2023 with original keyboardist Chick Churchill, and two new members: guitarist/vocalist Marcus Bonfanti ...