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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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