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| Born | October 19, 1945 |
| Hometown | Cincinnati, Ohio, United States |
| Children | Rolan Bolan |
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30 hit songs you didn't know were covers
- When it comes to music, we often assume that artists write all of their own lyrics and material. But sometimes that hit single you really love is actually a cover. It turns out that a lot of musicians—Beyoncé, David Bowie, and Metallica to name a few—have had massive success with their own renditions of someone else’s songs. No judgment—it’s just often surprising when we find that out.
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‘God would dig me like crazy’: how Marc Bolan spun out of control
They called Marc Bolan a visionary, but how dark did his premonitions get? They say, on a visit to the Louvre, he was engrossed by a Magritte painting of a sycamore tree in moonlight called The Sixteenth Of September. As obtuse as Nostradamus, he sang of a “hubcap diamond star halo” and that “life is the same as it always will be, easy as picking foxes from a tree”. On tour in 1967 it’s said he role-played a future in which he was world famous with his manager Simon Napier-Bell. “Of course, I’d
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What Marc Bolan Would Have Thought About T. Rex’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction, According to Gloria Jones
The late T. Rex leader Marc Bolan would have been of a few minds about the band's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction according to Gloria Jones, his girlfriend, bandmate and mother of their son, Rolan Feld Bolan.
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Gotcha Covered: “All Along The Watchtower”
Super Bowl weekend already feels like it was months ago, though there are still a couple feelings I've been coasting off in the last week-or-so since: one, it's always fun seeing Tom Brady fail, and two, people who want you to buy things act under the worst faith imaginable. All it took was that Ram…
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Track of the Day: 'Tainted Love'
Matt, a reader in Seattle, has an unsettling selection for the cover series: This is a probably bit out there, but I was reminded of it as I listened to yesterday’s Track of the Day. The song “Tainted Love” was originally written by Ed Cobb and recorded by Gloria Jones in 1965 (thanks Wikipedia). It became famous with the 1981 synth-pop version by Soft Cell. Then in 1985, Coil covered it. Slowed it down. Released it as a benefit for an AIDS Charity. The slow version brought out a new meaning in
