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"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.
The first sessions for the album were held 1–3 November 1971 at Rosenberg Studios in Copenhagen, with Visconti producing. "Telegram Sam" and the B-sides "Baby Strange" (also to appear on the album), "Cadilac" (sic) and "Thunderwing" were all recorded along with an early version of "Spaceball Ricochet". [4]
The band released the singles "Telegram Sam" and "Metal Guru" respectively in January and in May 1972, and both became number one hits in the UK. [7] In May, Bolan's old label Fly released the chart-topping compilation album Bolan Boogie , a collection of singles, B-sides and LP tracks, which affected sales of the band's forthcoming album.
Regarded as one of the band's best songs, Paste and Billboard ranked it number one and three on their lists of the top 10 T. Rex songs. [28] [29] In 1972, he achieved two more UK number ones with "Telegram Sam" and "Metal Guru" taken from The Slider, and two number twos in "Children of the Revolution" and "Solid Gold Easy Action". [24]
Bolan himself described the song's apparent religious references as this: Is a festival of life song. I relate 'Metal Guru' to all gods around. I believe in a god, but I have no religion. With 'Metal Guru', it's like someone special, it must be a godhead. I thought how god would be, he'd be all alone without a telephone.
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Billy Super Duper was released in 1982 by record label Marc on Wax. It did not chart in the United Kingdom. [2]The concept behind the album was to release songs that would be on Bolan's next album, which was to be titled Jack Daniels had he survived; however, several songs were recorded for the aborted 1975 concept album Billy Super Duper, and the title track led to the album taking this name.
In December 1980, Bauhaus released a cover version of "Telegram Sam", ... is a fan of the band [273] and used their song "1. David Jay 2. Peter Murphy 3. Kevin Haskins 4.