Marc Bolan
Keith Altham, NME, 7 October 1972
JUST WHEN IT seemed that all the excitement, glamour and sparkle were going out of rock – along with the anger, vulgarity and vitality which grew out of the back-street bands in the days of gold – along come the Faces, Slade, Cooper, Bowie and Bolan.
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