Marc Bolan, the Guru Of Glitter, was killed in a car crash in 1977 – just as his career was on the rise again. ... Bolan's wrecked Mini 1275 GT on Barnes Common (I.

T. Rex leader and glam rock icon Marc Bolan died in a car crash on Sept. 16, 1977. ... Bolan was in the passenger seat of a purple Austin Mini driven by Jones.

Simon Doonan on the eternal cool of Marc Bolan, the fabulous, fey, and long-gone-but-not-forgotten glamrocker.

Forty years after T-Rex rocker Marc Bolan died in a car crash, ... crashed in a purple Mini just a mile from home in Barnes, South West London. It was September 16, ...

The wreckage of the purple Mini in which Bolan was killed As he drove along the busy main road home, the news came on his car radio which forced him to pull over to the side of the road in a state ...

Marc Bolan's partner speaks about the 30th anniversary of his death ... was driving the purple Mini when it spun out of control and smashed into a tree on September 16, 1977.

Even in the anything-goes Noughties, Marc Bolan would be looked on as bizarre, ... 1977 when he died in the tangled wreck of his purple Mini driven by his American-born lover, ...

They – or, I should admit, we – feel a certain sense of injustice. The legacies of, say, David Bowie, Bolan's friend and rival, or Elvis Presley, whose death overshadowed Marc's, are set in stone.

The night before the crash, Bolan's management company had lent his white Rolls-Royce to the rock band Hawkwind, so Bolan, Gloria and her brother Richard went to a party in the Mini.