Marc Bolan: On Love, Hate and the Press
Keith Altham, NME, 19 August 1972
MARC BOLAN may not be one step ahead of the shoe-shine, but he has certainly been slandered, libelled, heard words you've never heard in the Bible – and all because he's trying to keep his customers satisfied. Paul Simon, at least, would understand Bolan's problems.
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