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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Part of the Bolan mystique: He had more vanity per ... who dances his way out of the womb and into the tomb on Electric Warrior. I’m not frightened to get up there and groove in front of 6 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The rise and fall of Marc Bolan and his glam phenomenon ... Within three years, following the star-making success of Electric Warrior and The Slider, the jig is all but up.

This was the second T-Rex album (they were previously Tyrannosaurus Rex but nothing like what T-Rex became) and probably the most classic of Marc Bolan’s oeuvre – it was a five star album in ...