"Love Like a Man" is a song and hit
single
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* Single (music), a song release
Songs
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by British
blues rock
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group
Ten Years After
Ten Years After are a British 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 ''Billboar ...
, first released in 1970 and taken from their album ''
Cricklewood Green
''Cricklewood Green'' is the fourth studio album by blues rock band Ten Years After, released in 1970.
Reception
Allmusic gave ''Cricklewood Green'' a firmly positive retrospective review, praising each individual track and summarizing that "t ...
''.
Singles chart success
The single is the group's only hit in the
UK Singles Chart
The UK Singles Chart (currently titled Official Singles Chart, with the upper section more commonly known as the Official UK Top 40) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-s ...
.
Written by the group's lead vocalist
Alvin Lee
Alvin Lee (born Graham Anthony Barnes; 19 December 1944 – 6 March 2013) was an English singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He is best known as the lead vocalist and lead guitarist of the blues rock band Ten Years After.
Early life
He w ...
and produced by the group,
it was the band's fourth single. The song entered the UK charts at #48 in June 1970 and reached #10 in August finally leaving the chart in October 1970.
In the US, it reached #98. In Canada, it reached #56.
Unusually, the
A-side
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of this single is to be played at
45 rpm whilst the
B-side
The A-side and B-side are the two sides of phonograph records and cassettes; these terms have often been printed on the labels of two-sided music recordings. The A-side usually features a recording that its artist, producer, or record compan ...
is to be played at
33⅓ RPM.
[ The B-side is a live version of the song recorded at Bill Graham's ]Fillmore East
The Fillmore East was rock promoter Bill Graham's rock venue on Second Avenue near East 6th Street in the (at the time) Lower East Side neighborhood, now called the East Village neighborhood of the borough of Manhattan of New York City. I ...
and runs at 7:56 in marked contrast to the A-side's shorter, 3:05.[
]
References
External links
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1970 singles
Ten Years After songs
Songs written by Alvin Lee
1970 songs
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