Tyrannosaurus Rex
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Marc Bolan: The Man Behind Tyrannosaurus Rex
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 25 May 1968
AGE AND world wearyness are the enemies of pop. Marc Bolan has youth and enthusiasm. His are the qualities which must be the saviours of ...
NME Reporters Cover the Weekend's Major Event — the Eighth National Jazz and Blues Festival
Live Review by Keith Altham, Richard Green, New Musical Express, 17 August 1968
STARS, SUNSHINE and a SHAMBLES ...
Tyrannosaurus: Poetry And Music
Interview by Derek Boltwood, Record Mirror, 9 November 1968
POLYGONAMOUS pop. Let me explain — pop has many sides to it, thus polygonamous. All this stuff that comprises the majority of the charts and ...
Tyrannosaurus Rex/Melanie: Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 18 January 1969
A HANDFUL of musical fairydust was thrown into the air at London's Queen Elizabeth Hall on Monday, which baffled some and choked others. ...
Tyrannosaurus Rex: ...But The Bopping Imp Keeps Bopping
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 11 October 1969
CHRIS WELCH UNCOVERS THE TYRANNOSAURUS SPLIT ...
Interview by Jerry Gilbert, Melody Maker, 22 November 1969
TYRANNOSAURUS REX has survived its transplant operation and is already back in circulation. A little heavier for its absence but still breathing fire and breeding ...
Tyrannosaurus Rex are in good elf!
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 14 March 1970
TYRANNOSAURUS REX has taken rather a pasting recently. Trevor Brice of Vanity Fare in Blind Date said of their new album: "I think it's horrible. ...
Tyrannosaurus Rex: Two Heads Are Better Than One
Interview by Rob Partridge, Record Mirror, 28 March 1970
TYRANNOSAURUS REX are one again. The double-headed animal has happily been put together again after it had split two ways last year. ...
Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, May 1970
JUST OVER TWO years ago, John Peel introduced the public, as is his wont, to one of the most startlingly unusual groups ever to make ...
Interview by James Johnson, New Musical Express, 15 April 1972
SINCE HE LEFT T. Rex, Steve Took says he's spoken to Marc Bolan just twice. The last time was about three months ago at Boston ...
T. Rex: Where Now, Elemental Child?
Comment by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 28 April 1973
ONCE UPON A time there was Tyrannosaurus Rex. In the days immediately following flower-power, rockanroll music was getting very sweaty around the edges. What with ...
Obituary by Rosalind Russell, Record Mirror, 24 September 1977
Even people who didn't care for his records acknowledged his charisma ...
Rock and Roll Heart: Marc Bolan 1947-1977
Obituary by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 24 September 1977
MARC BOLAN was born on September 30, 1947, in Hackney Hospital, East London, the second son of Sid and Phyllis Feld. ...
As Fans Worship At The Tree Where Bolan Died... T. Rextacy lives
Retrospective by David Hancock, Evening News, London, 7 June 1979
THERE'S ONE guaranteed way to make sure any party is a dancing success — keep playing T. Rex hits. ...
The NME Consumers' Guide To Marc Bolan, part 1
Retrospective by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 20 September 1980
INDEPENDENT TELEVISION are currently repeating five shows from the three year old Marc series. Marc Bolan was star in and presenter of a pop show ...
Retrospective and Interview by Deanne Pearson, The Face, October 1981
Original Mod, prototype New Romantic... uhmm... but that's another story. This one's about the people trying to keep the Bolan legend alive. Second Coming of ...
Steve Peregrin Took: Staring At The Stars
Memoir by Mick Farren, MOJO, August 1995
Mick Farren remembers his friend Steve Peregrin Took, sidekick to Marc Bolan in Tyrannosaurus Rex and pursuer of an elusive fame... ...
"Catch A Bright Star And Place It On Your Forehead": The Rise of Marc Bolan
Book Excerpt by Mark Paytress, Omnibus Books, 2002
An extract from Bolan: The Rise And Fall Of A 20th Century Superstar by Mark Paytress, first published by Omnibus Press in 2002. (378pp, currently ...
Marc Bolan: The Jurassic Years
Retrospective and Interview by Rob Chapman, MOJO, September 2002
IN DECEMBER 1967 The Observer devoted a large portion of its Sunday Colour Supplement to the London Underground. Complete with obligatory hip-speak glossary (an "A ...
Retrospective by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, February 2010
THERE IS ONLY one Starman in the room right now and his name is David Bowie. Flying high after his Top 5 astral novelty hit ...
see also Shagrat
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