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Diamond Days is the fourth album by the British band The Outfield. The album reached No. 90 on the Billboard 200 album chart. Diamond Days was the first album the band released under the MCA record label, having previously recorded for Columbia Records.
Alvin Lee courtesy of Ten Years After Issued in a standard jewel case with black CD tray and a 8-page booklet with photos, lyrics and credits.
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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.
About Time is an album by the blues rock band Ten Years After, released in 1989. [1] [2] It was the final studio album featuring Alvin Lee, their singer and most prominent songwriter since the band's formation. It was their first studio release in fifteen years (since Positive Vibrations, in 1974). [3]
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Lee was born in Nottingham and attended the Margaret Glen-Bott School in Wollaton. He began playing guitar at the age of 13. In 1960, Lee, along with bassist Leo Lyons, formed the core of the band Ten Years After. He was influenced by his parents' collection of jazz and blues records, but it was the advent of rock and rollthat sparked his interest.
Lee's performance at the Woodstock Festival was captured on film in the documentary of the event, and his 'lightning-fast' playing helped catapult him to stardom.The film brought Lee's music to a worldwide audience, although he later lamented that he missed the lost freedom and spiritual dedication of earlier audiences. Lee was named "the fastest g...
Lee died on 6 March 2013 in Spain. He died from "unforeseen complications following a routine surgical procedure" to correct an atrial arrhythmia. He was 68. His former bandmates lamented his death. Leo Lyons called him "the closest thing I had to a brother", while Ric Lee (no relation) said "I don't think it's even sunk in yet as to the reality of...
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1. Note: "Ride On" contains one studio side and one live side.
Alvin Lee at IMDbPaytress, Mark (January 1997). "Ten Years After". Record Collector. No. 221. pp. 84–89.Oct 1, 2006 · At 35 minutes, it's their shortest studio album, and in many ways, it's also their punchiest and most direct. Relying on drum programming and session drummer Simon Dawson, the band expanded its sonic palette in songs like "One Night in Heaven" (featuring a guest solo from Alvin Lee), "Raintown Boys" and "Burning Blue."
View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1990 Vinyl release of "Diamond Days" on Discogs.
