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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.
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]
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]
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]
Title Album details Peak chart positions CAN [3]DEN [4]US [10]Double Deluxe: Released: 1970; Label: Deram; Formats: 2xLP; Japan-only release — — — Alvin Lee and Company
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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.