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Plaque marking Bolan's childhood home, 25 Stoke Newington Common, Hackney, east London. Bolan was born Mark Feld at Hackney Hospital and grew up at 25 Stoke Newington Common, in the borough of Hackney, east London, the second child of Simeon ("Sid") Feld (1920-1991), a cosmetics salesman and former lorry driver, and Phyllis Winifred (née Atkins; 1927-1991), who ran a stall at Berwick Street ...
Marc Bolan's Rock Shrine is a memorial to Marc Bolan, of glam-rock band T. Rex, on the site where he died in a car crash in Barnes, London, on 16 September 1977. Bolan was a passenger in a car that hit a part-metal-and-wood fence and then a sycamore tree on Queen's Ride (part of the B306 , close to Gipsy Lane), and he was pronounced dead at the ...
Ride a White Swan: The Lives and Death of Marc Bolan. Hodder. McLenehan, Cliff (2002). Marc Bolan, 1947–1977: A Chronology. Helter Skelter Publishing. Paytress, Mark (2003). Bolan: The Rise and Fall of a 20th Century Superstar. Omnibus Press. Roland, Paul (2012). Cosmic Dancer: The Life & Music of Marc Bolan. Tomahawk Press. Sinclair, Paul ...
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]
T. Rex were an English rock band, formed as Tyrannosaurus Rex in 1967 by singer/songwriter and guitarist Marc Bolan.The group came to an end [citation needed] after Bolan's death in a car crash in September 1977.
American rock supergroup Hollywood Vampires, formed in 2015 by Alice Cooper, Johnny Depp and Joe Perry to honour the music of the rock stars who died from excess in the 1970s, included the song on their 2015 debut album Hollywood Vampires, to commemorate Marc Bolan's death on 16 September 1977. [15]
Andrew Niziol and Patty Bolan pose for a photo at Mount Shasta in an image posted to Instagram on Saturday, May 4, 2024. The couple’s bodies were found five days later on the north face of Mount ...
Windstorm is the fourth studio album released by Gloria Jones in 1978. The album was a dedication to Marc Bolan, who died in a car crash in London on September 16, 1977, as on the rear cover, is written: "Special Dedication in memory of my son's father, the late Marc Bolan, whom we miss very much."