Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series. The music of T. Rex has often been used in films and television to evoke ...
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Rock 'n' roll lost one of its greatest talents on Sept. 16, 1977, when Marc Bolan and his girlfriend, Gloria Jones, were involved in a tragic auto accident. The leader of T. Rex was returning home ...
T. Rex had 10 Top 10 U.K. singles between 1970 and 1973, including the 1971 classic "Bang a Gong (Get It On)" Bolan died in a 1977 car accident at age 29 Masculinity has long been a tricky topic in ...
“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 trailer for the ...
But in early 1970, Took was replaced by Mickey Finn, and the group's acoustic sound started to included electric elements. Their 1969 single "King of the Rumbling Spires," as well as the A Beard of ...
"There's been a change in England and we are part of the change." Greenwich Entertainment has revealed an official trailer for a music documentary film called AngelHeaded Hipster, also a reference to ...
Most Americans know Marc Bolan and his band T. Rex for their 1971 hit “(Bang a Gong) Get It On,” but in the U.K., the group was a national phenomenon. Some accountants claimed at the time that these ...
Glam rock star Marc Bolan has been honoured with a blue plaque outside the west London home where he wrote and recorded some of his biggest hits. The singer and guitarist, the frontman of glam rock ...
David Bowie and Marc Bolan's rivalry waned when they were both equally as successful. The glam rock legends were each other's biggest competitors in the 70s, and their producer Tony Visconti admits ...
It was Aug. 11, 1973, at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. Onstage was Marc Bolan, the enigmatic singer of T. Rex, in a shiny purple jumpsuit unzipped to his navel, wailing on a Gibson Les Paul ...