Mark Feld was born in London in 1947, and adopted the stage name Marc Bolan as a teenager. Like many British rock stars of ...
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 ...
Conventional wisdom says the T Rex catalogue was pretty patchy beyond those astonishing singles – but as this set proves, it’s more compicated than that, writes Alexis Petridis ...
For Marc Bolan and his band T. Rex, 1972 had been the most fabulous year yet. The Slider, their seventh studio album (and third since the band’s name had been abbreviated from the original ...
The album name and cover art suggest arena rock swagger. And there’s plenty of it, but “Cosmic Dancer” reveals a troubled Marc Bolan. He danced himself “right out the womb”, then later, “into the tomb ...
The AngelHeaded Hipster album was the final project of acclaimed late music Hal Willner. Willner assembled an impressive cast of music artists to record new renditions of songs by Bolan and his famous ...
'Angelheaded Hipster' does a deep dive into the private life, career and artistry of Bolan, including his complicated relationship with his glam rock peer Bowie The new documentary Angelheaded Hipster ...
Not that the music is entirely without merit. The best segment is from Nick Cave, who delivers a perfectly calibrated version of Bolan’s “Cosmic Dancer”, slowing it down and finding mystical depths in ...
L-R Elton John, Marc Bolan of T-Rex, and Ringo Starr of The Beatles promote the film 'Born To Boogie' in 1972. Michael Putland/Getty Images EXCLUSIVE: Greenwich Entertainment has acquired North ...
Glam rock star Marc Bolan has been honoured with a blue plaque outside the London home where he wrote and recorded some of his biggest hits, English Heritage has announced. The singer and guitarist, ...
Over the week my mother was dying, I listened to Boy George’s second solo album, Tense Nervous Headache, every night after coming home from the hospital. Locked in my bathroom, sitting on the floor, ...