Alvin Lee Is Going Home: 'Ten Years After' Guitarist Dies
By MARK
MEMMOTT March 06, 2013
Guitarist Alvin Lee, whose incendiary performance with the
British band Ten Years After was one of the highlights of the 1969 Woodstock
festival, has died.
He was 68. Lee's
website says he "passed away early this morning [Wednesday] after
unforeseen complications following a routine surgical procedure." An
assistant to his daughter also confirmed the news to NPR.
His band's biggest hit — "I'd Love to Change the
World" — came a couple years after Woodstock. We'll embed a clip from
that.
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If you haven't heard "I'm Going Home" in a while, click here.
According to the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, a good
source for Woodstock history, Ten Years After's set on Aug. 17, 1969, came
right after the performance by Country Joe and the Fish and right before The
Band.
Update at 8:15 a.m. ET, March 7. From Morning Edition:
Our friends on Morning Edition have more on Lee,
including clips of him playing. According to host Steve Inskeep, Ten Years
After never played "I'd Love to Change the World" in concert,
preferring to stick to the blues.
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NPR: March 6, 2013 Alvin Lee Is Going Home: 'Ten Years
After' Guitarist Dies
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