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Ten Years After are a British blues rock group, most popular in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Between 1968 and 1973, the band had eight consecutive Top 40 albums on the UK Albums Chart . [ 2 ] In addition, they had twelve albums enter the US Billboard 200 . [ 3 ]
Video albums: 3: Box sets: 5: This is the discography of British rock band Ten Years After. Albums. Studio albums ... Ten Years After 1967–1974: Released: December ...
Stonedhenge features seven songs written by Alvin Lee, along with a song each from bass guitarist Leo Lyons, keyboardist Chick Churchill and drummer Ric Lee. [11] According to Beat Instrumental, it is a more of an experimental album than the group's earlier work, deploying "a lot of trickery and studio effects combined with fairly untypical Ten Years After material". [10]
The hard-working band built a large following in Europe. After Fillmore West founder Bill Graham heard a copy of the band's first album, he immediately sent a letter offering to book Ten Years After on an extended tour in the United States. As part of Ten Years After, Lyons was one of the first rock performers at the Newport Jazz Festival.
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]
Recorded Live is the second live album by British blues rock musicians Ten Years After, which was released as a double LP in 1973.. This album, containing no overdubs or additives, was recorded over four nights in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Frankfurt and Paris with the Rolling Stones' mobile recording truck and later mixed from sixteen tracks to stereo at Olympic Studios in London.
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."
Ten Years After is an English blues rock band. Ten Years After may also refer to: Ten Years After (Ten Years After album) Ten Years After (Tommy Keene album) Ten Years After, an album by Theatre of Hate; 10 Years After, an album by Jerusalem