A new T. Rex song has been released 48 years after Marc Bolan’s death. The pioneers of 1970s glam rock, whose hits included Ride a White Swan, Get it On, Telegram Sam and Children of the Revolution, ...
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.
The music of T. Rex has often been used in films and television to evoke the stylish swagger and debauched effulgence of the British glam rock scene that frontman Marc Bolan led in the early ’70s. But ...