Leo Lyons

In 1967 four young musicians from Nottinghamshire, England formed Ten Years After. Alvin Lee, Chick Churchill, Ric Lee & Leo Lyons became one of the most explosive quartets on the world stage and cemented themselves as one of the biggest bands in Rock n Roll history.

Chick Churchill was a keyboardist in Ten Years After and without a doubt his only solo album (released by Chrysalis in November 1973) is an unfairly forgotten rock gem with quite strong, progressive influences. And what a great line-up played on that record! Martin Barre, Cozy Powell, Leo Lyons, Rick Lee, Roger Hodgson, Bernie Marsden, Gary Pickford-Hopkins - it’s really hard to imagine a better configuration on one record! LP was dominated to a certain extent by the keyboards (organ, piano & mellotron), but also offered a lot of space for other instruments. This nicely sounding and very professionally produced album contained quite powerful, but very stylish tracks similar in style to the music of Wishbone Ash, Procol Harum and Wild Turkey.

Alvin Lee - Let It Rock (1978) {2008 Japan Mini LP Remaster}
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Rock / Blues Rock / Classic Rock

R.I.P. Alvin Lee Of Ten Years After. –– Let's make no doubt about this review from the start: Alvin Lee solo is not the same thing as Ten Years After and such comparisons miss the mark entirely. I loved Ten Years After mainly because of Alvin Lee, but no guitar player can afford to give up a bass/drums rhythm section like Leo Lyons and Ric Lee and expect to sound the same–he had been blessed with those two and the keyboards of Chick Churchill and together they made Ten Years After the legend they were and are today.

Alvin Lee (born Graham Barnes, 19 December 1944, Nottingham, England) is an English rock guitarist and singer. He began playing guitar at the age of 13, and with Leo Lyons formed the core of the band Ten Years After in 1960. Influenced by his parents' collection of jazz and blues records, it was the advent of rock and roll that sparked his interest, and guitarists such as Chuck Berry and Scotty Moore provided his inspiration.

Positive Vibrations is the eighth album by the English blues rock band, Ten Years After, which was released in 1974. Shortly after the release of this album, the band broke up.

Sometimes we can type until our fingers are battered, bloodied stumps and still fail to come up with anything that’s a patch on that which some poor, harried blurb writer managed to spit out seconds before popping down the pub for a few pints. So what are Ten Years After all about? Take it away Blurbie…
“In the beginning God made the guitar. Then he created a new breed of guitar Gods to play it, and Alvin Lee of Ten Years After was the fastest guitar-slinger in the West.”