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Alvin Lee performing in Breda, Turfschip, the Netherlands, 1978. 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.
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
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 ...
He particularly praised Alvin Lee's guitar work. However, he complained that a number of the tracks suffered from "lack of strength or projection of Alvin's voice" and concluded "Ten Years After are a far better live band than their albums suggest; they get over much more of their charisma and excitement that has a job surfacing on their ...
Cricklewood Green is the fourth studio album by the English blues rock band Ten Years After, released in 1970 ... All songs written by Alvin Lee. Side one; No. Title ...
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.
This album has less original material than the band's later works, most of which were composed entirely of Alvin Lee's songs. It features " Spoonful ", a song written by Willie Dixon and recorded by Howlin' Wolf , which the British blues rock group Cream had covered the previous year on their debut album Fresh Cream , with an extended live ...
About Time is an album by the blues rock band Ten Years After, released in 1989. [2] [3] It was the final studio album featuring Alvin Lee, their singer and most prominent songwriter since the band's formation. It was their first studio release in fifteen years (since Positive Vibrations, in 1974). [4] About Time peaked at number 120 on the US ...