Ten Years After: Alvin Lee (vocals, guitar); Chick Churchill (keyboards); Leo Lyons (bass); Ric Lee (drums).
Recorded at Olympic Studios, London, England.
A SPACE IN TIME was Ten Years After's biggest commercial success. The reasons are pretty obvious; Alvin Lee's songwriting had improved markedly and there was far more stylistic variety than on their previous albums.
The big hit here was "I'd Love to Change the World," with its catchy acoustic guitar hook and the immortal opening line, "Everywhere is freaks and hairies." Other highpoints include: "Baby Won't You Let Me Rock 'n' Roll You," the band's first stab at Stones-style raunch (complete with a riff from Led Zeppelin); the country-ish romp "Once There Was a Time"; and the gently folky and surprisingly self-deprecating "Over the Hill," which features strings, a move that would have been unthinkable for this band a year or two earlier.
Professional Reviews
Rolling Stone (10/14/71, p.49) - "...The original material and arrangements are terribly lame....As the Romans used to say...let the buyer beware..."
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An album I've been listening to for years now, one can only pray for a proper remaster of this album. As of Nov. 2011 there are no remasters, but there really is no need since the album sounds like pure perfection on the making. The band had already made a statement of being one of the greatest live blues bands ever, with Alvin Lee taking lead guitar and vocal duties, the band created a sound that hadn't been matched before. This album presents an entirely new sound, with less blues jams and more acoustically driven songs like Over The Hill, One Of These Days and I'd Love to Change the World. Every single song in here is worth giving a listen and the whole album came out perfect that it won the accolade as the band's best album in their career.
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