But in early 1970, Took was replaced by Mickey Finn, and the group's acoustic sound started to included electric elements. Their 1969 single "King of the Rumbling Spires," as well as the A Beard ...

When Donovan popped in to see Marc Bolan ... touchstones Electric Warrior and The Slider with occasional burst of Stevie Wonder-flavoured clavinet. “It’s been going great,” Bolan said ...

The clue is in the title. Ethan Silverman’s documentary Angelheaded Hipster explores the life and work of Marc Bolan through the T Rex frontman’s music. The film shares its name with a covers ...

But by 1974, the notoriously self-absorbed and often irascible Marc Bolan had ... So when the pixie electric warrior started work on the album that became 1975’s Bolan’s Zip Gun, he was ...

Next steps: Electric Warrior is every inch as good as The Slider, and no introduction to T. Rex—or Marc Bolan overall—would be complete without it. Besides putting T. Rex on the map in ’71 ...

Thirty-five years ago on Sunday (September 16), Marc ... ‘Electric Warrior’ album, ‘Jeepster’ is perhaps the best example of the kind of spine-tingling electric boogie-woogie that Bolan ...

Rex's Marc Bolan was the greatest star of glam rock. Keith Altham interviewed him for NME in October 1971, following the release of T. Rex's classic Electric Warrior album and just before their sm ...

There was only one Electric Warrior. The music of T-Rex is still fresh and unique 25 years after Marc's death. A feat I'm sure he'd be proud of. It amazes me that Bolan continues to be applauded. He ...

The rise and fall of Marc Bolan ... find Bolan in rapid evolution from fairy-folk poet to glam god. Within three years, following the star-making success of Electric Warrior and The Slider ...

Then Marc came along. He was very good-looking ... his sixth album — and second as T Rex — would turn Bolan stratospheric. Electric Warrior was recorded with Visconti in several studios ...