Between 26–27 July 1969, they appeared at the Seattle Pop Festival held at Gold Creek Park. In July 1969, the group appeared at the Newport Jazz Festival, in the first event rock bands were invited to. They followed this in February 1969 by the studio issue Stonedhenge, a British hit that included another well-known track, “Hear Me Calling” (it was released also as a single, and covered in 1972 by the British glam rock rising stars, Slade). In 1968, after touring Scandinavia and the United States, Ten Years After released a second album, the live Undead, with the noteworthy song, “I’m Going Home”. In October 1967 they released the self-titled debut album, Ten Years After. That performance led to a contract with Deram, a subsidiary of Decca - the first band Deram signed without a hit single. It secured a residency at the Marquee, and was invited to play at the Windsor Jazz Festival in 1967. The group was the first act booked by the soon-to-be Chrysalis Agency. Some sources claim that the name was pulled by Leo Lyons from a magazine, advertising a book, Ten Years After The Suez (referring to the Suez Crisis). (This was ten years after Presley’s successful year, 1956). They again changed their name, to Ten Years After – in honour of Elvis Presley, one of Lee’s idols. Using the name Blues Yard they played one show at the Marquee Club supporting the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band. That November, the quartet signed a manager, Chris Wright, and changed their name to Blues Trip. In the same year, Chick Churchill joined the group as keyboard player. In 1966, The Jaybirds moved to London to back The Ivy League. Roy Cooper (born 11 November 1943, Huthwaite, Nottinghamshire) played rhythm guitar, vocals from 1960 to 1962. Ivan Jay (born Ivan Joseph Harrison, 1939, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, died in April 2009, USA) sang lead vocals from late 1960 to 1962 and was joined by Ric Lee in August 1965, replacing drummer Dave Quickmire (born David Quickmire, 1940, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire), who had replaced Pete Evans (born Peter Evans, 1940, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire) in 1962. After several years of local success in the Nottingham/ Mansfieldarea, known since 1962 as the Jaybirds and later as Ivan Jay and the Jaymen, Alvin Lee and Leo Lyons founded Ten Years After. The band’s core formed in late 1960 as Ivan Jay and the Jaycats. Their musical style consisted of blues rock and hard rock. In addition they had twelve albums enter the US Billboard 200, and are best known for tracks such as “I’m Going Home”, “Hear Me Calling”, “ I’d Love to Change the World” and “ Love Like a Man“. Between 19, Ten Years After scored eight Top 40 albums on the UK Albums Chart. Ten Years After are a British blues rock band, most popular in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Woodstock – Ten Years After – I’m Going Home
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