Ten Years After

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This article is about the band. For the album by British post-punk rock band Theatre of Hate, see Ten Years After (Theatre of Hate album)

Ten Years After are an English blues rock band, most popular in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

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[edit] 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. Later Ivan Jay and the Jaymen) by Alvin Lee and Leo Lyons, Ivan Jay lead vocals (late 1960 to 1962) joined by Ric Lee in August 1965, replacing original drummer Dave Quickmire, who had joined the band 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 then they decided to change their name to Blues Trip, Blues Yard (under it they played a show at the legendary Marquee Club, supporting Bonzo Dog Band), and finally Ten Years After in November 1966. They became the first bands of the soon-to-be Chrysalis Agency. They secured a residency at the Marquee, and received an invitation to play at the renowned Windsor Jazz Festival in 1967. That performance led to a contract with Deram, a subsidiary company of Decca — the first band so signed without a hit single. In October, 1967 self-titled debut album was released.

In 1968, after touring Scandinavia and the United States, Ten Years After released the 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, 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, Ten Years After performed a breakthrough American appearance at Woodstock; their furious-to-slow-to-furious rendition of "I'm Going Home" 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 sixth 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 didn't know exactly 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 both sides - 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.

Ric Lee is currently in a band called The Breakers, along with Ian Ellis ( Clouds).

[edit] Band members

[edit] Discography

[edit] Studio and live albums

Ten Years After 1967
Undead 1968
Ssssh 1969
Stonedhenge 1969
Cricklewood Green 1970
Watt 1970
A Space In Time 1971
Alvin Lee And Company 1972
Rock & Roll Music To The World 1972
Recorded Live (2LP) 1973
Positive Vibrations 1974
About Time 1989
Live At The Fillmore East 1970 (2CD live) 2001
Now 2004
Roadworks (2CD live) 2005

[edit] Compilations

  • Double Deluxe (1970)
  • Ten Years After (1971)
  • Classic Performances (1976)
  • Goin' Home (1977)
  • Greatest Hits (1977)
  • Profile (1979)
  • Ten Years After (1980)
  • Timewarps (1983)
  • The Collection (1985)
  • At Their Peak (1987)
  • Universal (1987)
  • Portfolio (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)

[edit] Trivia

  • In his 1971 Elvis Presley biography, rock journalist Jerry Hopkins claimed Alvin Lee named his band "Ten Years After" because they started ten years after Elvis (by other source, the name TYA was taken in 1966 from London's local radio listings: [1]).

[edit] External links

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