Ten Years After consists of Alvin Lee, Chick Churchill, Leo Lyons, Ric Lee.
Ten Years After is a British blues rock band popular in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
The band consisted of: Alvin Lee — guitar, vocals; born Graham Barnes on 19 December 1944, in Nottingham. Leo Lyons — bass; born 30 November 1943, in Mansfield. Chick Churchill — keyboard; born Michael George Churchill on 2 January 1946, in Ilkeston. Ric Lee — drums; born 20 October 1945, in Mansfield.
Formed in 1967, the band received an invitation to play at the Windsor Jazz Festival, which led to a contract with Dream, a child company of Decca — the first band so signed without a hit single.
After touring Scandinavia and America, Ten Years After released their second album, Undead, which included the hit single "I'm Going Home". This was followed by Stonedhenge, a British hit. In 1969, they appear 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 nearly ten-minute, furious-to-slow-to-furious rendition of "I'm Going Home" was featured in both the subsequent film and soundtrack album.
During 1970, Ten Years After released "Love Like a Man", their first hit single in the UK. In August, Ten Years After played the Isle of Wight Festival 1970 to an audience of 600,000 hippies. Their set was hightlighted by performances of "I'm Going Home" as well as the blistering guitar solo and tuning parts on "I Can't Keep From Crying".