“Bolan’s Shoes,” a British film featuring the music of glam-rock singer Marc Bolan and his band T. Rex, will be released by Freestyle Digital Media in January 2025 and an exclusive new trailer for the ...

T. Rex had 10 Top 10 U.K. singles between 1970 and 1973, including the 1971 classic "Bang a Gong (Get It On)" Bolan died in a 1977 car accident at age 29 Masculinity has long been a tricky topic in ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Estate of Keith Morris/Redferns) Although Marc Bolan only scored the one U.S. hit — “Bang ...

British broadcaster Bob Harris recalled the moment he witnesses Marc Bolan becoming a star in 1971. Harris, a veteran BBC host, was on a U.K. tour with T. Rex in the early months of the year, just as ...

At the outset of Ethan Silverman’s documentary “Angelheaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan & T. Rex,” Billy Idol relays an anecdote about Marc Bolan — the magnetic songwriter and frontman of the ...

Marc Bolan’s career had been in a slump before the 12th T. Rex album Dandy in the Underworld arrived on March 11, 1977 – or at least, that’s how the media presented it. Bolan himself had a different ...

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, ...

Cocky and camp, T. Rex’s “Get It On” was glam rock’s first global hit in 1971. That year, the group’s singer-guitarist and songwriter Marc Bolan performed the song on BBC TV’s “Top of the Pops” in a ...

One of two posters with an anti-smoking message, featuring the 1970s pop star Marc Bolan grimacing and the slogan 'If Marc Bolan kissed you would he feel like this?', produced for the Health Education ...

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 ...

Although Marc Bolan only scored the one U.S. hit — “Bang A Gong,” in 1971, with his band, T.Rex, his influence on the artists that followed him, particularly in the States and the U.K., was immense.