Ten Years After

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

1 Band membership
2 History
3 Discography
- 3.1 Studio and live albums
- 3.2 Compilations
4 Trivia
5 External links

[edit] Band membership

Alvin Lee - guitar, vocals, harp; born Graham Barnes, 19 December 1944 in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire.
Leo Lyons - bass; born David William Lyons, 30 November 1943, in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire.
Chick Churchill - keyboard; born Michael George Churchill, 2 January 1946, in Mold, Flintshire, North Wales.
Ric Lee - drums; born Richard Lee, 20 October 1945, in Cannock, Staffordshire.

New Member since 2003:

Joe Gooch - guitar, vocals; born 3 May 1977, in Highbury, London.

[edit] History

After several years of local success in 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 - 1962) joined by Ric Lee in Aug 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: 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 Nov 1966. Secured a residency at the Marquee, the band got an invitation to play at the renowned Windsor Jazz Festival in 1967, and 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 their classic thing, "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.

[edit] Discography

[edit] Studio and live albums

Ten Years After	1967
Undead	1968
Stonedhenge	1968
Ssssh	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]).