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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 ...
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]
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]
Churchill (left) and Ten Years After in 1970. Churchill has been in Ten Years After since joining 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).
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 ...
Stonedhenge features seven songs written by Alvin Lee, along with a song each from bass guitarist Leo Lyons, keyboardist Chick Churchill and drummer Ric Lee. [11] According to Beat Instrumental, it is a more of an experimental album than the group's earlier work, deploying "a lot of trickery and studio effects combined with fairly untypical Ten Years After material". [10]
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 ...