those very same teens and many thousands of their peers would have first experienced “Mambo Sun” as the opening track of “Electric Warrior,” the album that turned T.Rex leader Marc Bolan ...

My Electric Warrior character was meant to be a sort ... I’m a lunatic.” Marc Bolan with with Elton John on Top Of The Pops in 1971 Despite Bolan’s bravado, Futuristic Dragon only reached ...

Bolan recalled the previous year and his move from hippie hero to teen idol in an interview from 1971, following the fame and fortune of the breakthrough Electric Warrior album. "I decided that ...

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 ...

On the September 1971 release of the T. Rex‘s fifth album, Electric Warrior, just remastered and reissued in the U.S. by Rhino, frontman Marc Bolan achieved superstar status in Britain.

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 ...

shouting boys and Marc Bolan wailing away on stage with his guitar. (SOUNDBITE OF T REX SONG, "JEEPSTER") KEATLEY: With "Electric Warrior," Bolan helped to break through to a new audience.

Marc Bolan‘s iconic glam makeup is examined ... was quite something,” the Edge said of Bolan in 2020. “And Electric Warrior is unbelievable, right up there with some of the best albums ...

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 ...