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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".
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
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.
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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.