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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 single released under the T. Rex Wax Co. imprint, "Telegram Sam", became the band's third number 1 hit upon release on 21 January 1972. [4] It was under these auspicious circumstances that the songs which would comprise The Slider were written and recorded.
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.
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.
Close Enough for Rock 'n' Roll is the seventh studio album by the Scottish hard rock band Nazareth, released in 1976.. The lead track, "Telegram", describes the band's experience while touring of hangovers, travel by aeroplane and limousine, customs, FM radio, girls, breakfast, press reception, soundcheck and finally the show over a guitar riff that bursts into a short version of the Byrds hit ...
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James Last Orchestra – Sacramento / Telegram Sam / Son Of My Father / Schöne Maid; Karel Gott – Adios Goodbye; conducted by Kai Warner (instead of James Last); choreography by Herbert F. Schubert 26.10.1972 19 James Last Orchestra and Starparade Ballet – Starparade; Mouth & MacNeal – Hello-A (German version) Jürgen Marcus – Nur ...
Gotham is a double-disc live album by English gothic rock band Bauhaus of a concert performed in 1998, released in 1999 by record label Metropolis.The album also includes one appended studio track, a cover of "Severance", originally recorded by Dead Can Dance on their 1988 album The Serpent's Egg.