Marc Bolan was the perfect rock star. Fey and impish but with a cocksure swagger, equally comfortable gently strumming an acoustic guitar or peeling off licks on his iconic orange Les Paul ...

MARC BOLAN was pop’s preening, platform-heeled peacock. In the early Seventies, the T.Rex star struck a genius groove of hooks and hits. With a mop of dark curls framing his baby face ...

Marc Bolan was wrong; there are no overdubs on ‘Suzie Q ... ‘The Leopards’ fades you out with Marc not even singing – rapping like a Dadaist Last-Poet/Watts-Prophet, tentatively but tantalisingly ...

Few remember, either, how Bowie watched, helplessly, as his friend Marc Bolan, roared to success ahead of him. Bowie was still Davie Jones from Bromley when the two first met in the offices of a ...

Following a stint playing guitar in the psychedelic group John’s Children and some experiments in releasing his own solo material, Marc Bolan formed the folk duo Tyrannosaurus Rex in 1967 ...

In February 1969, after Bolan blew up on the U.K. charts, he invited Bowie on tour — as a mime. “Marc was quite cruel about David’s as-yet-unproven musical career,” producer Tony Visconti ...

Suggest future Gateways To Geekery topics by emailing [email protected]. Geek obsession: Marc Bolan Why it’s daunting: Before dying in a car crash in 1977 at the age of 29, Marc Bolan saw his ...

The music that made this phenomenon is all here. But what makes Marc Bolan At The BBC a great box set is that, through live shows, interviews and even oddly barbed announcements of T.Rex tracks ...

Rextasy,” says producer Tony Visconti, who was at Bolan’s side during the glory years. “Marc was a rock icon. There should be blue plaques across London — even where he had lunch.” ...

Yet few words, if any, are devoted to the sartorial legacy of a man whose influence has done as much (if not more) to shape what we see on runways today: Marc Bolan, a wild child who once had all ...

“Bolan’s Shoes,” a British film featuring the music of glam-rock singer Marc Bolan and his band T. Rex, will be released by Freestyle Digital Media in January 2025 and an exclusive new ...

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