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Alvin Lee (born Graham Anthony Barnes; 19 December 1944 – 6 March 2013) was an English guitarist, singer and songwriter, who was best known as the lead vocalist and guitarist of the blues rock band Ten Years After.
Alvin Lee and Leo Lyons again changed their name in 1966 to Ten Years After – in honour of Elvis Presley, [5] one of Lee's idols. [5] (This was ten years after Presley's successful year, 1956). [4] [6] Some sources [7] claim that the name was pulled by Leo Lyons from a magazine, advertising a book, Suez Ten Years After (referring to the Suez ...
Alvin Lee is a Canadian comic book artist known for his manga-styled art.Lee is the co-creator, along with writer Gail Simone of the character Agent X.. Lee has worked under major comic book publishers including Image Comics under the UDON label, UDON studios as an independent publisher, Marvel Comics, DC Comics and Wildstorm Productions.
Stonedhenge features seven songs written by Alvin Lee, along with a song each from bass guitarist Leo Lyons, keyboardist Chick Churchill and drummer Ric Lee. [11] According to Beat Instrumental, it is a more of an experimental album than the group's earlier work, deploying "a lot of trickery and studio effects combined with fairly untypical Ten Years After material". [10]
Nineteen Ninety-Four (Viceroy VIC 8012-2, Reissue: Repertoire REP5191) is a 1994 album by Alvin Lee released in the United States as I Hear You Rockin'. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Track listing
This album has less original material than the band's later works, most of which were composed entirely of Alvin Lee's songs. It features " Spoonful ", a song written by Willie Dixon and recorded by Howlin' Wolf , which the British blues rock group Cream had covered the previous year on their debut album Fresh Cream , with an extended live ...
The single is the group's only hit in the UK Singles Chart. [2] Written by the group's lead vocalist Alvin Lee and produced by the group, [3] it was the band's fourth single. . The song entered the UK chart at number 48 in June 1970 and reached number 10 in August, finally leaving the chart in October 1970.
He particularly praised Alvin Lee's guitar work. However, he complained that a number of the tracks suffered from "lack of strength or projection of Alvin's voice" and concluded "Ten Years After are a far better live band than their albums suggest; they get over much more of their charisma and excitement that has a job surfacing on their ...