Marc Bolan

[237SJ]

Marc Bolan died 39 years ago today. Scary eh? I keep meaning to go and see where he died as it`s not far from here. His music was way ahead of it`s time and it hasn`t dated.

[Tilly2]

I went to see T Rex when I was seventeen. That is scary!

[237SJ]

Marc Bolan was my first love (I think I was about 9 years old at the time)

[tonyav]

39 years ago !, wow yeah scary.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNkwe86LY6Q

[Elina]

:0)

[237SJ]

How strange - I`m listening to Radio Jackie and they have just started playing Get It On by Marc Bolan.

[-Talbot-]

I went to see T Rex when I was seventeen. That is scary!



That is scary, Tilly ... they've be extinct 65 million years.

[Tilly2]

I went to see T. Rex when I was seventeen. I didn't enjoy the gig. I only went because my boyfriend at the time bought the tickets.

[piggynose]

do you think that joke doing the rounds at the time was a little below the belt? what was his last hit?, a tree.

[Tilly2]

Awww. that's not nice!

[anneasquith]

He was a very beautiful young man.

[237SJ]

He died when his Mini was crashed into a tree at Barnes when his girlfiend was driving. I read a biog about him and apparently, he always said that he would die young and in a car.

[losgigs]

Tilly - same here, and got his autograph, Wish I'd kept it....
Where did you see him?

[Tilly2]

Hanley, Stoke on Trent, Losgigs.

[andy-hughes]

Hindsight is a wonderful thing, and I seriously regret not going to see T. Rex when they played in Hanley – which is hear where I live as well. But they were a ‘teenybopper’ band, and beneath my lofty ‘prog’ retentions. Now, Electric Warrior’ is one of my favourite albums, and I would have loved to have seen Bolan strutting his stuff. That is filed along with my later love of Northern Soul music, which I didn’t have when The Torch was open just a few miles away, and I could have gone to Wigan Casino, and never did.

[tonyav]

And then there was Marc's northern soul girlfriend, Andy !.

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/t-rex-marc-bolan-girlfriend-gloria-jones-keeps-memory-alive/

[andy-hughes]

Indeed Tony.

Actually, Gloria Jones has had a hugely successful career as a singer and as a songwriter. I never knew that she wrote ‘I Haven’t Stopped Dancing Yet’ which was a huge disco hit for Gary’s Gang, and she sang on loads of top-end album tracks by very big artists.

[Answerprancer]

If you do go to visit the spot, go by train to Barnes, there is no parking along that road.

[tonyav]

Yes quite surprising isn't she.

I must say that at the time that their relationship became public I couldn't get my head around it. I couldn't quite understand that the queen of northern soul
( at that time ) whose record 'Tainted Love' used to fill the Casino dance floor had taken up with a Glam rocker.