''Positive Vibrations'' is the eighth studio

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Ten Years After Ten Years After are a British blues rock group, most popular in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Between 1968 and 1973, the band had eight consecutive Top 40 albums on the UK Albums Chart. In addition, they had twelve albums enter the US ''Bi ...

, released in 1974. Shortly after the release of this album, the band broke up. The album peaked at No. 81 in the US ''Billboard'' 200

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Track listing

All songs written by

Alvin Lee Alvin Lee (born Graham Anthony Barnes; 19 December 1944 – 6 March 2013) was an English guitarist, singer and songwriter, who was best known as the lead vocalist and guitarist of the blues rock band Ten Years After. Early life Lee was ...

, except where noted.

Side one

# "Nowhere to Run" – 4:02 # "Positive Vibrations" – 4:20 # "Stone Me" – 4:57 # "Without You" – 4:00 # "Going Back to Birmingham" (

Little Richard Richard Wayne Penniman (December 5, 1932 – May 9, 2020), known professionally as Little Richard, was an American singer, pianist, and songwriter. He was an influential figure in popular music and culture for seven decades. Described as the "Ar ...

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Side two

# "It's Getting Harder" – 4:24 # "You're Driving Me Crazy" – 2:26 # "Look into My Life" – 4:18 # "Look Me Straight into the Eyes" – 6:20 # "I Wanted to Boogie" – 3:36

2013 remaster additional tracks

"Rock & Roll Music to the World" (Live in Frankfurt) # "Once There Was a Time" (Live in Frankfurt) # "Spoonful" (Live in Paris) # "I'm Going Home" (Live in Paris) # "Standing at the Station" (Live in Amsterdam) # "Sweet Little Sixteen" (Live in Atlanta) # ''Positive Vibrations'' Radio Advert (1974)

Personnel

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, vocals, harmonica *

Leo Lyons Leo David William Lyons (born 30 November 1943) is an English musician, who was most known as the bassist of the blues rock band Ten Years After. Biography Leo Lyons was born in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire in November 1943 and became a profes ...

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Ric Lee Richard "Ric" Lee (born 20 October 1945) is an English drummer of the blues rock band Ten Years After. Ten Years After He was a founding member of his first band, The Falcons, and was also a drummer for Ricky Storm and The Mansfields, which h ...

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Chick Churchill Michael George "Chick" Churchill (born 2 January 1946) is an English keyboard player, who was with the blues rock band Ten Years After. Early career Churchill began playing the piano at the age of six and studied classical music until he was ...

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, synthesizer, piano

Charts

References

External links

* {{Authority control 1974 albums Ten Years After albums Chrysalis Records albums Columbia Records albums