Mark Feld was born in London in 1947, and adopted the stage name Marc Bolan as a teenager. Like many British rock stars of ...
“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 ...
British broadcaster Bob Harris recalled the moment he witnesses Marc Bolan becoming a star in 1971. Harris, a veteran BBC host, was on a U.K. tour with T. Rex in the early months of the year, just as ...
Although Marc Bolan only scored the one U.S. hit — “Bang A Gong,” in 1971, with his band, T.Rex, his influence on the artists that followed him, particularly in the States and the U.K., was immense.
At the outset of Ethan Silverman’s documentary “Angelheaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan & T. Rex,” Billy Idol relays an anecdote about Marc Bolan — the magnetic songwriter and frontman of the ...
Over the week my mother was dying, I listened to Boy George’s second solo album, Tense Nervous Headache, every night after coming home from the hospital. Locked in my bathroom, sitting on the floor, ...
L-R Elton John, Marc Bolan of T-Rex, and Ringo Starr of The Beatles promote the film 'Born To Boogie' in 1972. Michael Putland/Getty Images EXCLUSIVE: Greenwich Entertainment has acquired North ...
Cocky and camp, T. Rex’s “Get It On” was glam rock’s first global hit in 1971. That year, the group’s singer-guitarist and songwriter Marc Bolan performed the song on BBC TV’s “Top of the Pops” in a ...
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