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Ten Years After split up in 1974, shortly after the release of its eighth studio album - Positive Vibrations.

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Their popularity has stayed because of the CSI series one of their tracks was used on that many, many times. “The best parallel I can think of is The Who. “It’s incredible,” Ric says of the song’s cultural footprint. The trailers for Seven Days in Entebbe and HBO’s recent White House Plumbers miniseries, for instance, both make excellent use of the song’s gradual build to a fever pitch (Alvin’s heated guitar solo paired with Ric’s intense drum work are simply iconic) as a way to reflect snowballing chaos of history-shaping events. In recent decades, the track has become a go-to needle drop for Hollywood productions set around the Vietnam/Watergate period. After ‘I’d Love to Change the World’ hit, we were looking at 20,000 seaters Madison Square Garden.” “As Alvin always called it, we were sort of what you’d call an underground group. “We started to play a lot more AM gigs as opposed to FM gigs,” Ric notes. This, combined with the Woodstock documentary released in 1970, shot Ten Years After into the musical stratosphere. It also spent seven weeks on the Billboard 200, hitting its zenith at number 17. “I’d Love to Change the World” spent 12 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States and peaked at number 40 for two. “Clive said, ‘Sign to Columbia and I’ll give you a gold album,’” Ric says. The song was released as a single ahead of the group’s sixth album ( A Space in Time) at the behest of music executive Clive Davis, who had signed the band to the Columbia record label. I’m sure I didn’t do more than three takes and I think it was actually done in two.” ‘Yeah! Come on, man! Yeah!’ Which was great. “ was standing on the other side of the control room window and was really encouraging me to do stuff and do it well. Thankfully, Alvin was there to provide encouragement. The only problem? This was in the days before click track metronomes, which meant it would be much harder to synch the drums to the backing track.

“When I came back, they said, ‘Right, we’d like you to dub the drums onto this,’” he recalls. Ric, however, was “not well” for several days and waited for Alvin (guitar and vocals), Leo Lyons (bass), and Chick Churchill (keyboard) to record their parts first. The group recorded “I’d Love to Change the World” at the famous Olympic Studios in Barnes.

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