Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series. The music of T. Rex has often been used in films and television to evoke ...

MARC BOLAN was pop’s preening, platform-heeled peacock. In the early Seventies, the T.Rex star struck a genius groove of hooks and hits. Please provide a valid ...

It’s spring 1972 and Marc Bolan, the rest of T.Rex and producer Tony Visconti – who tells this story – are in a limo travelling from Orly airport to the 18th-century Château d’Hérouville (recently ...

Lots of pop performers find themselves cast as the biggest thing since the Beatles. But how often does an actual Beatle make that windy pronouncement? In 1972, Ringo Starr stamped that very imprimatur ...

Twenty-eight years after the untimely death of T. Rex frontman Marc Bolan, this 1972 film gets the re-release it deserves. At a near-overwhelming 325 minutes, the comprehensive two-disc set offers a ...

IN 1972, the Japanese photographer Masayoshi Sukita travelled to London and blagged a photoshoot with Marc Bolan. It was the start of his association with the cream of pop talent of that decade and ...

As that star reached its zenith in 1972, he gave a candid chat show interview. Nobody, save perhaps his friend AND rival David Bowie, could match Bolan’s flamboyant style, infectious grooves and sheer ...

If David Bowie was the biggest and brightest ‘glam rock’ star of the early 1970s, Marc Bolan wasn’t far behind. And 45 years ago, hundreds of teenage fans descended on Newcastle City Hall to queue for ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Marc Bolan came to Gloria Jones in a dream three days before this year’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees - including his band T. Rex - were announced in mid-January. “He was so ...

“This Is My Life” found Bolan reflecting on who he was and who he had become. A home-recording, it was caught on tape for the sake of it. Bolan had a new song, so he set his equipment up to capture it ...

MARC BOLAN was pop’s preening, platform-heeled peacock. In the early Seventies, the T.Rex star struck a genius groove of hooks and hits. With a mop of dark curls framing his baby face, Bolan was the ...

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