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Gloria Richetta Jones (born October 19, 1945) is an American singer and songwriter who first found success in the United Kingdom, being recognized there as "The Queen of Northern Soul". [1] She recorded the 1965 hit song " Tainted Love " and has worked in multiple genres as a Motown songwriter and recording artist, backing vocalist, and as a ...
Reunited is the fifth studio album released by Gloria Jones, the one who survived a fatal late 1977 London car crash that killed her boyfriend, named Marc Bolan, in 1982. [citation needed] Here is the description written on the back of the album: "Back in 1964, Gloria Jones still in her mid-teens, was discovered by hit songwriter Ed Cobb.
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."
Gloria Jones with her and Marc Bolan's son Rolan in 2014. Bolan and Gloria Jones were in a committed romantic relationship from 1973 until his death in September 1977. [42] The couple had a son together in September 1975 and the three of them lived together for nearly two years until Bolan's death.
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 ...
16 September – Rock star Marc Bolan, pioneer of the glam rock movement at the start of the 1970s with T. Rex, is killed in a car crash in Barnes, London, at age 29. His girlfriend Gloria Jones, who was driving the car, is seriously injured.
Finney was charged with armed robbery and murder after her accomplice was shot and killed by deputies, according to the Orlando Sentinel. Finney was found in a shower stall with a plastic garbage bag over her head, and died ten days later. Jail or Agency: Volusia County Branch Jail; State: Florida; Date arrested or booked: 5/29/2016; Date of ...
While Jones was severely injured, Bolan was killed in the crash, at age 29. [ 27 ] As Bolan had been the only constant member of T. Rex and also the only composer and writer, his management disbanded the remaining group (keyboardist Dino Dines and drummer Tony Newman ; there was a vacancy for bassist) immediately upon his death.