Ten Years After
Ten Years After is an English blues rock band, most popular in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Between 1968 and 1973, 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". Their musical style is blues rock and hard rock. 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 Read Full BioTen Years After is an English blues rock band, most popular in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Between 1968 and 1973, 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". Their musical style is blues rock and hard rock.
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 blend of jazz, blues and rock was initially slightly awkward but their first album provided an opening for them. In October, their 1967 self-titled debut album was released.
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 July 1969 they appeared at the Newport Jazz Festival, in the first event to which rock bands were invited. 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.
During 1970, Ten Years After released "Love Like a Man", their only hit in the UK Singles Chart. This song was on their fifth album, Cricklewood Green. The name of the album comes from a friend of the group who lived in Cricklewood, London. He grew a sort of plant which was said to have hallucinogenic effects. The band did not know the name of this plant, so they called their album Cricklewood Green. 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. In August, Ten Years After played the Isle of Wight Festival 1970 to an audience of 600,000.
In 1971, the band released the album A Space in Time which marked a move toward more commercial material. It featured their biggest hit, "I'd Love To Change The World". But a few albums later, the band broke up after the 1974 album Positive Vibrations. They re-united in 1983 to play the Reading Festival and this performance was later released on CD as The Friday Rock Show Sessions - Live At Reading '83. In 1988, they re-united for a few concerts and recorded the album About Time (1989). Finally, in 1994, they participated in the Eurowoodstock festival in Budapest.
Alvin Lee has since then mostly played and recorded under his own name. In 2003, the other band members replaced him with Joe Gooch and recorded the album Now. Material from the following tour was used for the 2005 double album Roadworks.
Lee died on March 6, 2013. According to his website, he died from "unforeseen complications following a routine surgical procedure." He was 68. His former bandmates lamented his death, Leo Lyons called him "the closest thing I had to a brother", while Ric Lee (no relation) said "I don't think its even sunk in yet as to the reality of his passing." Billboard Magazine wrote of his passing, highlighting such landmark performances as "I'm Going Home" from the Woodstock festival and his 1974 hit single "I'd Love to Change the World."
Band members:
Alvin Lee – guitar, vocals
Leo Lyons – bass
Chick Churchill – keyboards
Ric Lee – drums
Joe Gooch – guitar, vocals (joined in 2003)
You can also see Alvin Lee and / or Alvin Lee & Ten Years After and / or Alvin Lee & Co and or Alvin Lee & Ten Years Later and / or The Alvin Lee Band on Last.fm.
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 blend of jazz, blues and rock was initially slightly awkward but their first album provided an opening for them. In October, their 1967 self-titled debut album was released.
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 July 1969 they appeared at the Newport Jazz Festival, in the first event to which rock bands were invited. 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.
During 1970, Ten Years After released "Love Like a Man", their only hit in the UK Singles Chart. This song was on their fifth album, Cricklewood Green. The name of the album comes from a friend of the group who lived in Cricklewood, London. He grew a sort of plant which was said to have hallucinogenic effects. The band did not know the name of this plant, so they called their album Cricklewood Green. 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. In August, Ten Years After played the Isle of Wight Festival 1970 to an audience of 600,000.
In 1971, the band released the album A Space in Time which marked a move toward more commercial material. It featured their biggest hit, "I'd Love To Change The World". But a few albums later, the band broke up after the 1974 album Positive Vibrations. They re-united in 1983 to play the Reading Festival and this performance was later released on CD as The Friday Rock Show Sessions - Live At Reading '83. In 1988, they re-united for a few concerts and recorded the album About Time (1989). Finally, in 1994, they participated in the Eurowoodstock festival in Budapest.
Alvin Lee has since then mostly played and recorded under his own name. In 2003, the other band members replaced him with Joe Gooch and recorded the album Now. Material from the following tour was used for the 2005 double album Roadworks.
Lee died on March 6, 2013. According to his website, he died from "unforeseen complications following a routine surgical procedure." He was 68. His former bandmates lamented his death, Leo Lyons called him "the closest thing I had to a brother", while Ric Lee (no relation) said "I don't think its even sunk in yet as to the reality of his passing." Billboard Magazine wrote of his passing, highlighting such landmark performances as "I'm Going Home" from the Woodstock festival and his 1974 hit single "I'd Love to Change the World."
Band members:
Alvin Lee – guitar, vocals
Leo Lyons – bass
Chick Churchill – keyboards
Ric Lee – drums
Joe Gooch – guitar, vocals (joined in 2003)
You can also see Alvin Lee and / or Alvin Lee & Ten Years After and / or Alvin Lee & Co and or Alvin Lee & Ten Years Later and / or The Alvin Lee Band on Last.fm.
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I'd Love to Change the World
Ten Years After Lyrics
Everywhere is freaks and hairies
Dykes and fairies, tell me, where is sanity?
Tax the rich, feed the poor
'Til there are no rich no more
I'd love to change the world
But I don't know what to do
So I'll leave it up to you
Population keeps on breeding
Nation bleeding, still more feeding, economy
Life is funny, skies are sunny
Bees make honey, who needs money? No, not poor me
I'd love to change the world
But I don't know what to do
So I'll leave it up to you
Oh, yeah
World pollution, there's no solution
Institution, electrocution
Just black and white, rich or poor
Them and us, stop the war
I'd love to change the world
But I don't know what to do
So I'll leave it up to you
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
Written by: Alvin Lee
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FarmersAreCool
@Roger F Not more than government officials committing war crimes everyday on tax payer dime, yet citizens take benefits stolen from their neighbours. 401K? War criminal. IF there is no standard to hold the servants accountable, no, can't say I care about plastic.
Communism, at its heart is commercial law, so the Law of the Vatican, aka all governments are Vatican commercial law/maritime law of the sea, they all have an Egyptian obelisk marking them. Without the ten commandments and the law of the land, there is no language binding the officials actions.
I care about jobs being taken from people and they turn to theft, that t hey will covet their neghbours shit and begin stealing because the work is being stolen and denied by commercial law dictated from central state gone bankrupt.
THen they begin seizing private property, and the most valuable private property is our living bodies, which will be seized and vaccinated again our will. Tied to crosses and have needles driven in our wrists? haha.
Only way out is using the Church to decentralize the state. There is no alternative, separate them, tie gold to money, drive a farming / gold / labour boom in the west. Build our way out of this.
Or let retard pedophiles like trump, Biden ,Trudeau and the gang keep on pillaging the West.
The foundation of the West is the WORD. Or else we end up like reservation Indians, unable to organize ourselves around the heart of our own culture to save ourselves from being a victim of our own golem. All the external military force of USA is being turned inward and aimed at citizens, the inflation buble of military expansionism is coming to a collapse with all other bubbles. Pensions and benefits of gov employees will be used to leverage the gov public work forces into seizing everyones property and culling their family lines to pay their own bills.
This is how you create nazi ( not - see) Germany in every nation simultaneously.
FarmersAreCool
@Roger F Society is always a police state, it was the real point of Christianity, organizing our families for ourselves without Rome doing it for us.
The closure of Churches, who have placed themselves under tax jurisdiction of the state, show the government is usurping the Church and that there is no separation.
Only way out of this situation is all of us manning the Churches, witnessing each other's contracts and acting in a way that protects each other from liability.
We gotta become moral good people, then when we gain the moral highground we become the banks and displace the system from within.
Fake Christianity falsifies the economy with debt liened on citzens names, Jesus Christ died on the Cross so debt wouldn't be liened against our names. The foundation of our Un-A-Lien-Able rights.
Christianity has become a bucnha of superstitious old women, ain't supposed to be like this. 100 years ago all births were written in local Scripture record, we weren't given a certificate of birth/berth, then a corporation made in all caps in the image of our Christian names, then debt/sin is liened against our names, sins and debts we did not incur, and do not benefit from making us chattel slaves.
The federal governments are using occult symbolisms to control us en masse like they did in Egypt. The WORD identifies through story and myth, how these witches work.
Might seem cheesy, but Christianity is the way out. Unregister the Churches, separate from the mother corp and use the fellowships(all ships are trusts) to raise ourselves up above this flood. Churches don't didn't pay land taxes because anything you tax you dstroy, you tax the land, you destroy the land, you tax labour you destroy labour. A nation can't tax itself into prosperity.
Worst part is without Chrisitanity, the state becomes a secular religion under the iconography of the state. THe hammer and sickle, and the swastika, both those were secular religions carried out trying to create a utopia in the flesh on earth. THey stacked corpses to ther moon becasue the state became unlinked from scripture and began mandating murder. COmmunist dictatorships are big about forcing confessions through torture because anyone who stands against them delegitimzes their authority.
Christ on the Cross, We hung God up on the Cross to die, if he was God he could have killed everyone, but he didn't. HE didn't run or fight, because he is the TRUTH and our nature is to kill him and feed idols.
Sorry if i seem a bit religious, Pastor ran me out for wanting to talk about what words mean. HE was so used to people coming in and saying God ain't real, when I come in and say God is real, but you ain't following him, he got mad and yelly IN MY HOUSE. At MY TABLE.
grandmasterauto
Somebody out there knows what to do.
pappa hines
oh by the way when i made the comment if you back this section one month i meant something i said a month ago. @marco a. l. lobo
pappa hines
i don't twist arms....and this is not a theological argument for religion...i'm just sharing my own faith a bit,,best of luck.@marco a. l. lobo
marco a. l. lobo
@pappa hines , I don't buy theology. Your comment/ argument is theology/ religion.
pappa hines
marco..if you back this comment section one month... i made a comment referring to religion....you mentioned exorcism...there are plenty of spirits to go around.....god the father the son and the holy spirit are a package deal...it's not a pick your favorite kind of thing.@marco a. l. lobo
marco a. l. lobo
@pappa hines The Holy Spirit is in who ever loves the Holy Spirit. By the way, I don't like religion.
Billy Badass
This song is more relevant in 2021 than it has been in 50 years.
William Tisdale
Remember you got to live back in them days
FuckFuckmcgee69 Fuckfuckmcgee96
Money and power rule the world, Democrat/republican nothing changes. Best we can do as common people is treat each other equal and know who the real enemy is, and that’s those who are in power
Wolfgang Huss
of course ......... but the good end is near ... the son of god was back !!! but the name is not the same you know from the vatikan ... the father of him died onfire 1415 in alemane (swabian/switzerland) the town is konstanz