born in 1944, guitarist.
started playing very young, 16 years in 1960 to form his own band The Jaybirds with Leo Lyons on bass and Ric Lee on drums.
In 1966 he moved to London, changed its name to Jaybird, Jay Bird, and then finally Ten Years After, with which it comes to international success.
Success came in 1967 with the participation of the Blues Festival in Windsor, where the input of keyboardist Chick Churchill get a great succersso.
Mike Vernon, the producer of John Mayall, I was impressed and takes them to the recording studio where he was born on their first album.
The album became a success, the group like it, like the grit of Alvin and the way he plays clean and inventive, like their version of Willie Dixon's Spoonful and Help, beautiful song by Sonny Boy Williamson.
The album, however, does not like to Alvin Lee, who prefers the atmosphere of the live and the ability to play without restrictions and limitations.
Undead released in 1968, with a beautiful live I May Be Wrong, woodchopper's Ball, Can not Keep From Crying and Extension On One Chord, a song by 12 minutes where Lee and his band find their ideal space jam in free and unbridled. I 5-10 minutes of many songs become more forward-quarters of an hour, starting dall'arcifamosa Goin 'Home, which makes its debut in Undead.
In 1968 he toured the U.S. and the year after participating in the Woodstock Festival where he has a huge success with your Goin 'Home. In 69 out
Stonedhenge with songs like Going To Try, A Sad Song, and more than 8 minutes to No Title.
Ssssh followed, with the beautiful cover of Good Morning Little Schoolgirl, hard rock and blues nostalgic Stoned Woman I Woke Up This Morning.
In 70 out Cricklewood Green with Love Like a Man and 50,000 Miles Beneath My Brian. In the same year, leaving Watt, with classics like I'm Coming On, She Lies in the Morning and, above all, Sweet Little Sixteen, a remake of a famous song in the live version of Chuck Berry.
year later, in 1971 A Space in Time comes out with I'd Love To Change The World, their most famous song el'opening track One Of These Days.
The album sees a change of course, The blues is mixed with psychedelic rock, very fashionable at the time. The change allows Alvin
to express its maximum capacity and will be the more mature phase of the group.
Exit Alvin Lee and Company, a collection with new and remakes of old classics, and Rock & Roll Music To The World, with songs like Standing at the Station, and You Give Me Loving Choo Choo Mama.
We arrived in 1973, Alvin Lee feels too tight in his band and prepared with the gospel music Mylon LeFevre an album of country rock On The Road to Freedom.
The album features the collaboration of artists such as George Harrison, Steve Winwood, Ronnie Wood of the Rolling Stones and Mick Fleetwood of Fleetwood Mac
year later dissolved the band and recorded as Alvin Lee & Co and a double live album In Fight with members of his former band Pump Iron and Let it Rock.
In 1978 and meets as Alvin Lee Ten Years Later affect Rocket Fuel and the next year Ride On
change again in 1980, works with Steve Gould of Rare Birds with whom he recorded two albums and in the same year he participated in a famous tour with John Mayall and Mick Taylor, legendary guitarist of the Rolling Stones.
In 1986, Detroit Diesel and 1992 Zoom, both works in collaboration with George Harrison. In
2004 Alvin Lee in Tennessee, engraved with Scotty Moore and DJFontana.
The last solo album of 2007 is Saguitar.
It 's always been connected with his band until 2003 and was replaced by Joe Gooch (pictured above with his cap and the current lineup) with which the Ten Years After Now affects and Evolution in 2008.
Alvin Lee is a great guitarist, not the thickness of names like Eric Clapton or Gary Moore, but a faithful witness of the spirit of those who see the 70s British blues bind themselves especially hard rock, becoming the higher than this wonderful genre. 
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