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Marc Bolan (/ ˈ b oʊ l ə n / BOH-lən; born Mark Feld; 30 September 1947 – 16 September 1977) was an English guitarist, singer-songwriter and poet. He was a pioneer of the glam rock movement in the early 1970s with his band T. Rex . [ 1 ]
"Telegram Sam" was the first single to be issued by Marc Bolan's own T.Rex Wax Co. label, released on 21 January 1972. The UK b-side featured two songs, "Cadilac" (as printed on the EMI label of the original single) and "Baby Strange", the latter also included in the album The Slider.
Bolan and his girlfriend June Child were living a quiet life, Bolan working on his book of poetry entitled The Warlock of Love and concentrating on his songs and performance skills. Took, however, had fully embraced the anti-commercial, drug -taking ethos of the UK Underground scene centred around Ladbroke Grove .
When singer-songwriter and guitarist Marc Bolan left the mod band John's Children at the end of June 1967, he formed a new group, Tyrannosaurus Rex. After a disastrous debut gig as an electric four-piece at the Electric Garden club on July 22, Bolan stripped the group down to an acoustic duo consisting of himself on vocals and guitar and Steve Peregrin Took on backing vocals and bongos. [1]
The album consists of outtakes and demos recorded by Bolan in 1966. Some of the songs would later be recorded by Bolan's band, Tyrannosaurus Rex. Most of these tracks have also been released in their original form on the album, The Beginning of Doves (1974). In 1981, backing instrumentals were recorded and added to Bolan's original recordings.
Born to Boogie is a 1972 British film of a concert at the Empire Pool starring T. Rex, Marc Bolan, Ringo Starr and Elton John. [1] Directed and produced by Starr, the film was released on The Beatles ' Apple Films label.
It was also the last single to feature Took, who Bolan fired shortly afterwards for wanting to record his own songs as well as Bolan's, as well as creative and lifestyle differences between the pair. [6] Originally issued as a stand-alone single, it was later included as a bonus track on reissues of the earlier album Unicorn. [7]
T. Rex is a 1970 album by Marc Bolan's band T. Rex, the first under that name and the fifth since their debut as Tyrannosaurus Rex in 1968. It was released on 18 December by record labels Fly and Reprise.