A hard-hustling Jewish kid from East London who willed himself into becoming (for a time, at least) Britain’s biggest pop ...

Marc Bolan was the perfect rock star. Fey and impish but with a cocksure swagger, equally comfortable gently strumming an acoustic guitar or peeling off licks on his iconic orange Les Paul, he was ...

We’re going to fall out about this, obviously. But here we go. Let’s just start with the idea that a riff is a short, repeated musical figure that can be melodic or rhythmic. We’ve allowed for a bit ...

Onstage was Marc Bolan, the enigmatic singer of T. Rex, in a shiny purple jumpsuit unzipped to his navel, wailing on a Gibson Les Paul Custom guitar.

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 ...

MARC BOLAN was a shooting star who shone dazzlingly bright for a brief time . . . and then he was gone. As that star reached its zenith in 1972, he gave a candid chat show interview. There’s a ...

Jazz album: “Angelheaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan & T. Rex” by Hal Willner, released in 2020 on BMG. Explore the largest collection of jazz recordings @ All About Jazz ...

Today is the 40th anniversary of T. Rex's "Bang A Gong (Get It On)" reaching the top of the UK charts. It starts with the nasty, funky, slinky bass line, more sex than music, and it soon turns ...

Marc Bolan‘s iconic glam makeup is examined in an exclusive clip from the upcoming doc Angelheaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan and T. Rex. “Eyeliner is still a political act in some ...

Why it’s daunting: Before dying in a car crash in 1977 at the age of 29, Marc Bolan saw his band T. Rex become a one-hit wonder in America—and an iconic force in his native England.

It’s a beautiful moment because Marc Bolan has always stood for everything benignly insane about glam. T. Rex didn’t flourish long — Bolan was killed in a car crash in 1977, just two weeks ...

“Angelheaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan and T. Rex” makes its world premiere at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival.