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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. [2]
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 ]
The song entered the UK chart at number 48 in June 1970 and reached number 10 in August, finally leaving the chart in October 1970. [4] In the US, it reached number 98 in the Billboard Hot 100. [5] In Canada, it reached number 56. [6] Unusually, the A-side of this single is to be played at 45 rpm whilst the B-side is to be played at 33⅓ RPM. [3]
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".
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.
Positive Vibrations is the eighth studio album by the English blues rock band, Ten Years After, which was released in 1974. Shortly after the release of this album, the band broke up. [1] The album peaked at #81 in the US Billboard 200 chart. [2]
The song was a staple of their early live performances. English group Ten Years After updated the song with a blues-rock arrangement for their 1969 album Ssssh. In an album review, Jim Newsom noted the seven-minute version included "reworked lyrics leaving little doubt as to what the singer had in mind for the title character". [19]
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.