Mark Feld was born in London in 1947, and adopted the stage name Marc Bolan as a teenager. Like many British rock stars of ...

Conventional wisdom says the T Rex catalogue was pretty patchy beyond those astonishing singles – but as this set proves, it’s more compicated than that, writes Alexis Petridis ...

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 ...

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 ...

This intimate biography narrated in Marc Bolans own words traces his remarkable journey from Hackneys king of the mods to Tyrannosaurus Rex as he evolved into the artist known as the hippie with a ...

Not that the music is entirely without merit. The best segment is from Nick Cave, who delivers a perfectly calibrated version of Bolan’s “Cosmic Dancer”, slowing it down and finding mystical depths in ...

There’s really nothing else like a Hal Willner production. The late and legendary music producer and connector loved to bring disparate artists together to create something strange and magical, like a ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Estate Of Keith Morris/Redferns via Getty Images “You see, my idea of rock’n’roll is… ...