Albums:

1967 Ten Years After - Ten Years After [24-96]
1968-Ten Years After -Undead US [VINYL] [24-192 kHz]
1969 Ten Years After - Ssssh [24-96]
1969 Ten Years After - Stonedhenge US [24-192]
1970 Ten Years After - Cricklewood Green [24-192]
1970 Ten Years After - Watt [24-96]
1971 Ten Years After - A Space In Time US [VINYL] [24-192 kHz]
1972 Ten Years After - Alvin Lee & Company  [VINYL] {24-192}
1972 Ten Years After - Rock & Roll Music To The World[24-96]
1973 Ten Years After - Recorded Live (UK) [24-192]
1974 Ten Years After - Positive Vibrations  [24-192]
1980 Ten Years After - Hear Me Calling  [VINYL] {24-192 kHz, UK]
1985 Ten Years After - The Collection 2LP UK [24-192]
Ten Years After - I'm Going Home (Bootleg)[24-192]


Background information


Origin
Nottingham, England 

Genres
British blues, blues rock, hard rock, pop rock

Years active
1966–1974
 1983
 1988–present 

Labels
Polygram, Chrysalis, EMI, CBS 

Website
www.tenyearsafternow.com 



Members
Chick Churchill
Ric Lee 



Past members
Alvin Lee
Joe Gooch
Leo Lyons 

about:
Ten Years After are an English blues-rock 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 had twelve albums enter the US Billboard 200, and are best known for tracks like "I'm Going Home", "Hear Me Calling", "Rock'n Roll Music to the World", "I'd Love to Change the World" and "Love Like a Man".

The band's core formed in late 1960 as Ivan Jay and the Jaycats. After several years of local success in the Nottingham/Mansfield, known since 1962 as the Jaybirds and later as Ivan Jay and the Jaymen, Alvin Lee and Leo Lyons founded Ten Years After. 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 to back The Ivy League. In the same year Chick Churchill joined the group as keyboard player. That November the quartet signed a manager, Chris Wright, and changed their name to Blues Trip. Using the name Blues Yard they played one show at the Marquee Club supporting the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band. They again changed their name, to Ten Years After.

The group was the first act booked by the soon-to-be Chrysalis Agency. It secured a residency at the Marquee, and was invited to play at the Windsor Jazz Festival in 1967. That performance led to a contract with Deram, a subsidiary of Decca — the first band Deram signed without a hit single. In October, its 1967 they released the self-titled debut album, Ten Years After.

In 1968, after touring Scandinavia and the United States, Ten Years After released a second album, the live Undead, with the noteworthy song, "I'm Going Home". They followed this in February 1969 by the studio issue Stonedhenge, a British hit that included another well-known track, "Hear Me Calling" (it was released also as a single, and 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 rock bands were invited to. Between July 26 - 27, 1969, they appeared at the Seattle Pop Festival held at Gold Creek Park. On 17 August, the band performed a breakthrough American appearance at 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.

In 1970, Ten Years After released "Love Like a Man", the group's only hit in the UK Singles Chart, where it peaked at #10. It was the first record issued with a different playing speed on each side: a three-minute edit at 45rpm, and a nearly eight-minute live version at 33rpm.[citation needed] This song was on the band's fifth album, Cricklewood Green. In August 1970, Ten Years After played the Strawberry Fields Festival near Toronto, and the Isle of Wight Festival 1970.

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.[1] The members reunited in 1983 to play the Reading Festival,[6] 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 concerts and recorded the album About Time (1989) with producer Terry Manning in Memphis.In 1994, they participated in the Eurowoodstock festival in Budapest.

In 2003, the other band members replaced Lee with Joe Gooch, and recorded the album, Now.Material from the following tour was used for the 2005 double album, Roadworks. Ric Lee is currently in a band called Ric Lee's Natural Born Swingers, along with Bob Hall.

Alvin Lee mostly played and recorded under his own name following his split from the band. He died from complications during a routine medical procedure on 6 March 2013.

In December 2013, Leo Lyons and Joe Gooch announced on Twitter that they had left the band. Ric Lee and Chick Churchill will continue as Ten Years After, with a new line-up.