Marc Bolan
Born | September 30, 1947 |
Hometown | Hackney, England |
Height | 5'5" (1.65m) |
Spouse | June Bolan (m 1970 - 1977) |
Children | Rolan Bolan |
Parents | Simeon Feld , Phyllis Winifred Atkins |
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‘Hot Love’: Marc Bolan Sets T. Rex Ablaze With First No.1
- The 1971 chart-topper was the latest product of the T. Rex team that helped create Bolanmania.
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‘Electric Warrior’: T. Rex And The Album That Confirmed Bolanmania
T.Rex’s ‘Electric Warrior’ debuted at No.2 on the UK chart of October 9, 1971 and a new fan phenomenon was confirmed.
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Dandy In The Underworld: The Very Best Of Marc Bolan
The passing decades have brought new admiration of a unique and quintessential pop star.
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‘Tainted Love’: Soft Cell Put The Synths In Northern Soul
Soft Cell put synthesizers into northern soul on September 5, 1981, when they took ‘Tainted Love’ to the top of the UK charts.
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T.Rex ‘Get It On’ For A Second Time In 1971
Tony Visconti tells the story of the time he and Marc Bolan arrived in Los Angeles and created a pop classic.
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‘The Slider’: Another Intoxicating Hit of T. Rextasy
T. Rex followed up their seminal ‘Electric Warrior’ with ‘The Slider,’ another glam rock classic that’s every bit as great as its predecessor.
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‘Angelheaded Hipster’ Film Review: Marc Bolan’s Legend Dominates Tribute-Album Documentary
Tribeca Film Festival 2022: This film on the making of a T. Rex tribute features the likes of Bono and Joan Jett, but you're left wanting more Bolan
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‘It Was Playing With Gender and Power’: Watch Exclusive Clip From Upcoming T. Rex Doc
Ethan Silverman-directed Angelheaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan and T. Rex premieres at Tribeca Film Festival
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Def Leppard on surviving personal tragedy, grunge and a global pandemic: 'Just move on and keep making records'
Joe Elliott and Phil Collen discuss their new LP 'Diamond Star Halos,' how they "side-stepped" the 1990s' hair-metal backlash, and why "Kurt Cobain would've been fine with us."
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Notorious B.I.G. and The Doobie Brothers have nothing in common - except great books out this week
The Doobie Brothers and Notorious B.I.G. don't have anything in common musically, but both artists have histories detailed in respective new books.
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Feel the Noise: The Music That Shaped Britain, review - Where have all our great pop characters gone?
Wherever you stood in the Oasis v Blur battle of the 1990s, you have to admit that Liam Gallagher describing Country House as “Chas and Dave chimney sweep music” was a good put-down. It was one of many memories revived in Feel the Noise: The Music That Shaped Britain, a feature-length documentary that deserves a bigger audience than it will find on BritBox.
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