![]() ![]() It featured their biggest hit, “I’d Love To Change The World”. In 1971, the band released the album A Space in Time which marked a move toward more commercial material. In August, Ten Years After played the Isle of Wight Festival 1970 to an audience of 600,000. It was the first record to be issued with a different playing speed on each side – one a three-minute edit at 45rpm, the other, a nine-minute live version at 33rpm. The band did not know the name of this plant, so they called their album Cricklewood Green. He grew a sort of plant which was said to have hallucinogenic effects. The name of the album comes from a friend of the group who lived in Cricklewood, London. This song was on their fifth album, Cricklewood Green. In August, the band performed a breakthrough American appearance at Woodstock their furious-to-soft-to-furious rendition of “I’m Going Home” featuring Alvin Lee as the lead singer was featured in both the subsequent film and soundtrack album and catapulted them to star status.ĭuring 1970, Ten Years After released “Love Like a Man”, their only hit in the UK Singles Chart. In July 1969 they appeared at the Newport Jazz Festival, in the first event to which rock bands were invited. In 1968, after touring Scandinavia and the United States, Ten Years After released their second album, live Undead, which brought their first classic, “I’m Going Home.” This was followed in February 1969 by studio issue, Stonedhenge, a British hit, that included another classic, “Hear Me Calling” (it was released also as a single, and covered in 1972 by British glam rock rising stars, Slade). In October, their 1967 self-titled debut album was released. Their blend of jazz, blues and rock was initially slightly awkward but their first album provided an opening for them. Originally from Nottingham in the UK, this band of virtuoso musicians under the leadership of Alvin Lee conquered the UK scene and then spread their wings to the USA. Their musical style is blues rock and hard rock. Between 19, the band scored eight Top 40 albums in the UK Albums Chart, twelve albums in the US Billboard 200, and are best known for tracks such as “I’m Going Home”, “Hear Me Calling”, “I’d Love to Change the World” and “Love Like a Man”. If you remember classics like ‘Pump Iron’ and ‘Rocket Fuel’, then you’ll dig more recent examples of Alvin’s craft from ‘In Tennessee’, the album that celebrated his earthy musical roots.īooklet with authoritative and extensive liner notes written by respected ‘Record Collector’ journalist Michael Heatley.Įxpertly remastered by Jon Astley (who has worked on recordings by the Who, Led Zeppelin, George Harrison and many others).Ten Years After is an English blues rock band, most popular in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He burns up his fingers and vocal cords on such favourites as ‘Keep On Rockin’’, ‘Boogie All Day’ and ‘The Bluest Blues’, and the action never lets up. We hear Alvin singing and playing on 30 tracks, culled from the many solo albums he released during the years when he led his own bands, from the 1970s through to recent times.īacked by top rock session players, old mates and his regular sidemen, Alvin sounds at home in a variety of moods and styles, from blues to rock’n’roll. This unmissable 2CD set is jam packed with dazzling performances by the former Ten Years After guitar hero. That’s certainly the case with this aptly named ‘Best Of’ compilation. When it comes to red hot boogie guitar, you can’t get hotter than Alvin Lee, especially when he’s firing on all fretboards. ![]()
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