Alvin Lee & Ten Years After - Hey Joe (Mainz, Germany 1979)

The song is a cover of the Southern California rock band “The Leaves“ recording in 1965 written by Billy Roberts in 1962. The video was recorded at Mainz, Germany for the Rock Pop TV Show in August 1979. Ten Years After are an English blues rock band, most popular in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Between 1968 and 1973, Ten Years After scored eight Top 40 albums on the UK Albums 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“.Their musical style consisted of blues rock, and hard rock. The band’s core formed in late 1960 as Ivan Jay and the Jaycats. After several years of local success in the Nottingham/Mansfield area, known since 1962 as the Jaybirds and later as Ivan Jay and the Jaymen, Alvin Lee and Leo Lyons founded Ten Years After. Ivan Jay (born Ivan Joseph Harrison, 1939, Nottingham, N