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Other usesInfobox musical artist| name = Ten Years After| image = Blues Festival Suwalki 2009 - Ten Years After 02.jpg| caption = Ten Years After at Suwalki Blues Festival, 2009| image_size =| background = group_or_band| origin = Nottingham , England | genre = Blues-rock , British blues , rock and roll , hard rock , jazz rock | years_active = 1966& ndash;1974 1983 1988& ndash;present| label = Polygram , Chrysalis Records|Chrysalis , EMI , Columbia Records|CBS | associated_acts =| website = http://tenyearsafter.com/| current_members = Leo Lyons Chick Churchill Ric Lee Joe Gooch | past_members = Alvin Lee Ten Years After is an England|English blues-rock musical ensemble|band , most popular in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Between 1968 and 1973, Ten Years After scored eight Top 40 albums on the UK Albums Chart . In addition they have had twelve albums enter the United States|US Billboard 200 ,Cite web|url=Allmusic|class=artist|id=p5617/charts-awards|pure_url=yes|title=Allmusic ((( Ten Years After > Charts & Awards > Billboard Albums ))) and are best known for their tracks "I'm Going Home", "Hear Me Calling", " I'd Love To Change the World " and " Love Like a Man ".
History
After several years of local success in the Nottingham / Mansfield area as a band known since 1962 as The Jaybirds (its core was formed in late 1960 as Ivan Jay and the Jaycats), and later as Ivan Jay and the Jaymen, Ten Years After was founded by Alvin Lee and Leo Lyons . Ivan Jay sang lead vocals from late 1960 to 1962 and was joined by Ric Lee in August 1965, replacing drummer Dave Quickmire, who had replaced Pete Evans in 1962. In 1966 The Jaybirds moved to London , where Chick Churchill joined the group. That November the quartet signed a manager, Chris Wright, and decided to change its name to Blues Trip, Blues Yard (under which they played a show at the Marquee Club supporting the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band ), and finally in November 1966, to Ten Years After, (in honor of Elvis Presley , an idol of Lee's whose momentous year in rock - 1956, helps to better explain the band's name). The group became the first act booked by the soon-to-be Chrysalis Agency. It secured a residency at the Marquee, and received an invitation to play at the Windsor Jazz Festival in 1967. That performance led to a contract with Deram , a subsidiary of Decca Records|Decca – the first band so signed without a hit record|hit single (music)|single . In October, its 1967 Ten Years After (Ten Years After album)|self-titled debut album was released.
In 1968 after touring Scandinavia and the United States , Ten Years After released its second album, the live Undead (Ten Years After)|Undead , which brought the noteworthy song "I'm Going Home". This was followed in February 1969 by the recording studio|studio issue Stonedhenge , a British hit, that included another well-known track, "Hear Me Calling" (it was released also as a single, and cover version|covered in 1972 by the British glam rock rising stars, Slade ). In July 1969 the group appeared at the Newport Jazz Festival , in the first event to which rock band s were invited. On August 17th, the band performed a breakthrough American appearance at Woodstock Festival|Woodstock ; their rendition of "I'm Going Home" featuring Alvin Lee as 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 ", the group's only hit in the UK Singles Chart .Cite book | first= David | last= Roberts | year= 2006 | title= British Hit Singles & Albums | edition= 19th | publisher= Guinness World Records Limited | location= London | isbn= 1-904994-10-5 | page= 553 This song was on the band's 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 the members called their album Cricklewood Green . It was the first gramophone record|record to be issued with a different playing speed on each side – one a three-minute edit at 45rpm , the other, a nearly eight-minute live version at LP album|33rpm . In August 1970, Ten Years After played the Strawberry Fields Festival near Toronto , and the Isle of Wight Festival 1970 .Cite book | first= David | last= Roberts | year= 1998 | title= Guinness Rockopedia | edition= 1st | publisher= Guinness Publishing Ltd. | location= London | page= 205 | isbn= 0-85112-072-5
In 1971 the band switched labels to Columbia Records and released the hit album A Space in Time , which marked a move toward more commercial material. It featured the group's biggest hit, "I'd Love to Change the World". 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 subsequently broke up after their final 1974 Columbia album Positive Vibrations . The members reunited in 1983 to play the Reading and Leeds Festivals|Reading Festival ,Cite book | first= David | last= Roberts | year= 1998 | title= Guinness Rockopedia | edition= 1st | publisher= Guinness Publishing Ltd. | location= London | page= 355 | isbn= 0-85112-072-5 and this performance was later released on CD as ''The Friday Rock Show Sessions - Live At Reading '83' . In 1988 the members reunited for a few concert s and recorded the album About Time (1989). In 1994, they participated in the Sziget Festival|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 (Ten Years After album)|Now .Cite web|first= |last= |url=Allmusic|class=artist|id=p5617/biography|pure_url=yes |title=Biography by William Ruhlmann |publisher=Allmusic.com |accessdate=24 October 2009 Material from the following tour was used for the 2005 double album , Roadworks . Ric Lee is currently in a band called The Breakers, along with Ian Ellis (ex- Clouds (60s rock band)|Clouds ).
Band members
Alvin Lee : guitar , Singing|vocals , harmonica|harp ; born Graham Barnes, 19 December 1944, Nottingham , Nottinghamshire .
Leo Lyons : bass guitar|bass ; born David William Lyons, 30 November 1943, Mansfield , Nottinghamshire.
Chick Churchill : Keyboard instrument|keyboards ; born Michael George Churchill, 2 January 1946, Ilkeston , Derbyshire .
Ric Lee : Drum kit|drums ; born Richard Lee, 20 October 1945, Mansfield , Nottinghamshire.
Joe Gooch : guitar, vocals; born 3 May 1977, Highbury , North London (joined in 2003).Cite book
| first= David | last= Roberts | year= 1998 | title= Guinness Rockopedia | edition= 1st | publisher= Guinness Publishing Ltd. | location= London | page= 444 | isbn= 0-85112-072-5
Discography
Studio and live albums
Ten Years After (Ten Years After)
Undead (Ten Years After album)
BBC Sessions
Stonedhenge
Ssssh
Cricklewood Green
Watt (album)
A Space in Time
Rock & Roll Music to the World
Recorded Live (double live album )
Positive Vibrations
Rocket Fuel
Ride On
About Time (Ten Years After album)
Live at the Fillmore East 1970 (double live album )
One Night Jammed (Live)
Now (Ten Years After album)
Roadworks (double live album)
Evolution
Live at Fiesta City (live DVD)
Compilations
Double Deluxe (1970)
Ten Years After (1971)
Alvin Lee and Company (Deram, 1972)
''Goin' Home (Deram, 1975)
Classic Performances of (Columbia, 1976)
London Collector – Greatest Hits (London, 1977)
Profile (1979)
Ten Years After (1980)
Timewarps (1983)
The Collection (1985)
At Their Peak (1987)
Universal (1987) ( Chrysalis Records )
Portfolio: A History (1988)
The Collection (1991)
Essential (1991)
Pure Blues (1995)
''I'm Going Home (1996)
Premium Gold Collection (1998)
The Best of (2000)
Very Best Ten Years After Album Ever (2001)
Ten Years After Anthology (2002)
Bibliography
The New Musical Express Book of Rock , Star Books, 1975. ISBN 0 352 300744.
Cite journal|last= Paytress |first= Mark |year= 1997|month= January |title= Ten Years After|journal= Record Collector |issue= 221|pages= 84–89
Alvin Lee and Ten Years After–Visual History - Herb Staehr, Free Street Press, http://www.amazon.com
References
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External links
http://www.tenyearsafternow.com/ Ten Years After Now — official website of the new band
http://www.famousinterview.ca/interviews/alvin_lee.htm Interview with Alvin Lee
http://www.alvinlee.com Alvin Lee official website
http://www.chromeoxide.com/tenyears.htm Chrome Oxide information
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