Alvin Lee
Keith Altham, Record Mirror, 23 October 1971
'THE FASTEST Guitar in the West', 'The Elvis Presley of the Woodstock Generation', 'King Guitar' (Bert Weedon would dispute that rock on Bert) those are just a few of the backhanded compliments which have been slung at the photogenic head of a man more sinned against than sinning Alvin Lee, guitarist with Ten Years After.
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