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TEN YEARS AFTER
Ten Years After is a British blues-rock quartet consisting of Alvin Lee (guitar, vocals), Chick Churchill (keyboard), Leo Lyons (bass) and Ric Lee (drums). The group were formed in 1967 in England, and were soon signed to Decca. Although their first album flopped, their second ‘Undead’, a live album, hit the charts both in the UK and America. The album featured ‘I’m Going Home’, a six-minute blues track, which was one of the bands greatest hits. Their 1969 album, ‘Stonedhenge’ reached the UK Top Ten.
The bands break in America came after an appearance at Woodstock, at which they played a nine-minute masterpiece of their hit, ‘I’m Going Home’. Their next album, ‘Ssssh’ reached the US Top Twenty, with the next album ‘Cricklewood Green’ reaching number four.
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Watt completed the group's Decca contract, after which they signed with Columbia and moved in a more mainstream pop direction, shown through their gold-selling 1971 album ‘A Space in Time’, and it’s Top Forty single, ‘I’d Love to Change the World’.
Subsequent efforts in that direction were less successful, however, and Ten Years After split up after the release of ‘Positive Vibrations’ in 1974.
They reunited in 1988 for concerts in Europe and recorded their first new album in 15 years, the aptly named ‘About Time’, in 1989 before disbanding once again. In 2001, Ric Lee was preparing the back catalog for re-release when he discovered the Live at the Fillmore East 1970 tapes. He approached Alvin about getting back together to promote the lost album, but Alvin Lee declined. The rest of the band was up for it, though, and together with guitarist Joe Gooch, Ten Years After started touring again. In addition to touring the world, this new incarnation recorded their first new material in about a decade and a half and released Now in 2004 and added the live double CD set 'Roadworks' in 2005
Albums:
Ten Years After, Deram, 1967.
Undead (Live Album), Deram, 1968.
Stonedhenge, Deram, 1969.
Ssssh, Deram, 1969.
Cricklewood Green, Deram 1970.
Watt, Deram, 1970.
A Space in Time, Columbia, 1971.
Rock & Roll Music to the World, Columbia, 1972.
Recorded Live (Double Live Album), Columbia, 1973.
Positive Vibrations, Columbia, 1974.
Rocket Fuel, RSO, 1978.
Ride On, RSO, 1979.
About Time, Chrysaliis, 1989.
Live at the Fillmore east 1970 (Double Live Album), 2001.
One Night Jammed (Live), 2003.
Now, 2004.
Roadworks (Double Live Album), 2005.
Evolution, 2008.
Live at Fiesta City (Live DVD), 2009.
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Buddy Holly
Buddy Holly(Charles Hardin Holley) born September 7th 1936, was an American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of Rock ’n’ Roll. His music has inspired and influenced bands and musicians including: The Beatles, The Beach Boys, The Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan. Holly was also ranked No. 13 in Rolling Stone Magazine’s 50 greatest artists of all time.
Born in Lubbock, Texas, Buddy, as he was always known to his family, learned to play piano, guitar and fiddle as a young boy. At Junior High School, he met and started the duo ‘Buddy and Bob’ with his friend Bob Montgomery performing harmonies at talent shows and in local clubs, taking their influences from bluegrass music. However, after seeing Elvis perform in his hometown, he soon made the transition to rock music. Buddy’s big break came in 1956 when he was spotted by a Nashville talent scout. Soon after he was signed to Decca Records, however, he would release only two singles with the label: “Blue Days Black Nights” and “Modern Don Juan” unfortunately, neither had much success and his contract was not renewed.
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Holly formed his own band of musicians known as The Crickets with Jerry "J.I." Allison on drums, Joe B. Mauldin on bass and Niki Sullivan on rhythm guitar. Norman Petty was hired to manage the group and they were soon signed to Coral Records, a subsidiary of Decca Records. However, due to the terms of Holly’s contract with Decca, their next hit “That’ll be the Day” had to credited to The Crickets. Other hits including “Peggy Sue” and “Oh Boy” followed soon after. In 1958, after touring Australia and the UK the group finally split.
Buddy Holly continued to perform as a solo artist and after a performance in Iowa on February 2nd, 1959 he chartered a plane to take him and his backing musicians to the next stop on the tour. Tragically, the plane crashed minutes after take off and all passengers on board were killed.
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