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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.
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 ...
It featured the group's biggest hit, "I'd Love to Change the World". [8] 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 broke up after their final 1974 Columbia album, Positive Vibrations. [8]
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]
Ten Years After 1967–1974: Released: December 2017 ... "Love Like a Man" 10 8 26 33 56 15 9 13 19 98 ... Watt "I'd Love to Change the World" [G] — — — — 10 ...
Ten Years After is the debut album by English blues rock band Ten Years After.Recorded at Decca Studios in London in September 1967, and released on 27 October 1967, it was one of the first blues rock albums by British musicians.
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 ...
Rock & Roll Music to the World is the seventh studio album by the English blues rock band Ten Years After, released in 1972.It includes several Ten Years After standards, including "Standing at the Station", "Choo Choo Mama", and the title track.