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.

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

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.

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. Ride A White Swan, Hot Love, Get It On, Jeepster, Metal ...

“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 ...

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, ...

Marc Bolan and David Who? The extraordinary story of one of the closest friendships - and most bitter rivalries - in pop. By LESLEY-ANN JONES . Published: 17:00 EDT, 27 October 2012 | Updated: 17: ...

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, ...

It Is almost 30 years to the day since the purple Mini spun out of control and smashed into a tree, killing outright one of our most famous and flamboyant rock stars - Marc Bolan.

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.

Thirty-five years ago on Sunday (September 16), Marc Bolan died when the Mini driven by his girlfriend Gloria Jones hit a sycamore tree in Barnes, London. To celebrate the life and work of this ...