The sad story of Alvin Lee&#;s death, Ten Years After guitarist
Alvin Lee is another case of the great guitarists who left us very early. The musician left an incredible legacy ahead of Ten Years After, a great band unfortunately little remembered in rock history.
With Lee on vocals and in long guitar solos, the song &#;I&#;m Going Home&#; introduced Ten Years Afters to wider audiences, and was included in the documentary &#;Woodstock.&#;
The band would still release hit with songs like &#;Love Like a Man&#; () and &#;I&#;d Love to Change the World&#; (). In , Lee left the band, of which he was one of the founders, to pursue a solo career.
He returned in Ten Years After released 11 studio albums between and , and Lee had 14 solo albums in his career, until &#;Still on the Road to Freedom&#; in , his last release.
Alvin Lee’s death
In , the guitarist died unexpectedly unforeseen complications in a routine surgical procedure in Spain. He was The family revealed in a statement on the artist&#;s official website, without saying what kind of surgery was it.
His family released a statement at the time saying:
&#;With great sadness we have to announce that Alvin unexpectedly pa
Spider In My Web
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I&#;m a spider in my web, babe I&#;m waiting to catch a fly
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Well if you, come by my way &#; you&#;re sure to get tangled in my web
Said if you come by my way,
You&#;re sure to get tangled in my web
If you&#;re walkin&#; by my house darlin&#;,
You better think of what you said &#; think all the time
When I got you where I want you, you won&#;t get no mercy from me
When I got you where I want you, you sure won&#;t get no mercy from me
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I will never let you free
My web is very sticky, and pretty soon you are sure to know
Yes my web is very sticky, and pretty soon you are sure to know
&#;Cause one day I will catch you, and I will never let you go
I&#;m a spider in my web, I wait to catch a fly
I&#;m hidin&#; in my web, just grab you when you pass me by
Wo-oh, oh, oh &#; spider in my web darlin&#;,
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Food fights and fistfights: The story of Alvin Lee, the fastest guitar In the west
When British blues rockers Ten Years After flew in to the Woodstock Festival by private helicopter on August 16, they weren’t unduly impressed by the ,strong crowd marinating beneath the Catskill Mountains.
“It was just another day on the date sheet,” said Ten Years After’s then frontman Alvin Lee. “We’d already played huge festivals [Bath, Newport, Maryland], and once the crowd reaches a certain size it makes no difference – the horizon just goes back further.”
Even so, nerves began to fray backstage as Lee and bandmates Leo Lyons, Ric Lee (no relation) and Chick Churchill realised they may have to go on in the middle of a storm. Sensing their discomfort, others on the bill such as Janis Joplin, Joe Cocker and Country Joe McDonald tried to wind them up.
“Everybody was saying: ‘Tough luck – looks like you’re going to be electrocuted,’” Lee recalled. With typical downbeat Nottingham wit, he replied: “Yeah. And think how many records we’ll sell if I die.”
There was another, more urgent pr
Alvin Lee, rock guitarist in the band Ten Years After, dies at 68
British rock guitarist Alvin Lee, a member of the band Ten Years After, has died aged
His family announced on his official website, external that he unexpectedly died on 6 March following complications during routine surgery.
The Nottingham-born musician rose to fame after appearing at the Woodstock festival in
The band, who had eight Top 40 albums in the UK, had their biggest hit in with I'd Love To Change the World.
"We have lost a wonderful and much loved father and companion, the world has lost a truly great and gifted musician," said the statement from his wife and daughters.
Lee worked with The Beatles' George Harrison, Steve Winwood, Ronnie Wood and Mick Fleetwood on his first solo album, On the Road to Freedom, in
He released his 14th record, Still on the Road to Freedom, in August last year.
He was due to play a concert at Olympia Hall in Paris on 7 April with blues guitarist Johnny Winter.
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