My partner said he remembers when he was a kid, on a hot summers day, his shoes went missing when he went swimming, so on the way back he had to wear big white wellies. He was at an ice cream van on the Upper Richmond Road and Marc Bolan was there and laughed at his skinny legs in shorts and big white wellies and ruffled his ginger hair. Lol! 😅
Thanks for sharing…😊Reminds me of the story June told about the young boy who lived in the upstairs flat to them, bouncing off the walls in Bolan’s flat because he was so excited about his new baseball boots, which he pronounced ”space ball boots”…It motivated Bolan to write the song Spaceball Ricochet.
Wow! ....its great to see David Cassidy talking about Marc Bolan, my 2 hero's of the 70's!..I met Marc, he told me Cassidy was a really nice guy, same with McCartney.....I remember reading that Cassidy loved T.REX...happy days! - :)
As the last of the legendary "trilogy" albums, Tanx is by far the most interesting, musically. Although it didn't garner the hits like Electric Warrior and The Slider, it showed Marc was aware of the need to progress & develope. Tanx was therefore, what Tony Visconti refered to as, "one more for the kids"! What he did afterwards only shows his further evolution. Marc gave The Damned a leg-up and said good things about The Ramones. He was in the present and not stuck in his early seventies high-point. We can only conjecture where he might have gone. I think he'd have remained totally relevent.
Only for those in the UK. Your statement is funny to me because as an American I used to think it was one of the silliest lines in rock... Until I learned that "jeepster" was slang for "vampire". (Which Bolan actually sings at one point towards the end of the track - but as a kid I never put the two together.)
Saw him in "71. Alexandria Roller Rink , Va. USA $11 ticket price. For back then, ticket prices were $6.50 max. A small fortune to see a band who had not come to the states before. Jeepster and Get It On were played fairly regular on the radio stations. He had a good size audience. I thought they were GREAT!
@@joebowieaddick Oh Yeah! At first the audience did not no what to think of him. They were all cross legged on the floor. I was the only person on my feet throughout and he noticed this and played it up for me. The audience was rude to him. Real hippy dippy jerks. by the end of the show with Get It On, he suddenly won them over! It was a stellar moment and I was amazed at his professional confidence level for such a little guy. He was like a force of nature. Most memorable concert of my life.
@@supermamamaxi Thanks for sharing…Great memories! I saw him 3 times, and wouldn’t swap those memories for anything…He was a massive success all over the world, so It was strange how he never cracked America.
His spirit came his spirit has gone But with Marc Bolan, you can still Get It On T.rex they came and hit the scene You should have heard, those girls scream
With his corkscrew hair and people so fair He’d strut on the stage without worry or care He knew just how to get into your mind He’d bump and grind he was one of a kind He’d caress you with his Persian glove As he sang those words of hot Hot Love He’d Ride A White Swan over Crimson Moon Tickle your fancy with Venus Loon
Gave all he got, he gave it to you Rock On, Hang Ups, and Cadilac too All knew who was, was the Main man With Rip Off, Slider, and Tanx in a can
Bill Legend, Steve Currie, Mickey Finn Bumping and grinding from deep within Satin jacket trousers, glitter under the eyes I Love To Boogie with screams and cries
His B sides were good, as good as the A’s Jeepster was part of the Glam Rock phase Went to New York City he was The Groover With Telegram Sam Marc was a mover
To some, it came as no great surprise How this 20th Century Boy he did rise Electric Warrior L.P. was pure bliss Marc Bolan the Warrior we do miss.
It always amuses me when people leave comments claiming to know so much about Marc Bolan who didn’t know him personally or even met him. Only those who knew him personally knew what he was really like, as for the rest of the “experts” well the only comment is….an expert is…X is the sign of nothing and a spurt is a drip out of control. RIP AND LEAVE A LITTLE MARC IN YOUR HEART❤️
I never got to see Marc Bolan bcs I was too young in the 70’s …born in 1963 …but Husband and I were huge T-Rex fans ….and enjoyed many a great night with T-Rextasy at The Wedgwood Rooms in Pompey. But now they’ve moved to the Kings Theatre which is all seating and the price more than doubled. Why the Wedgwood was a perfect Venue. Shame we don’t go anymore now …I’m not ready to Dance in my Seat quite yet lol 🤷♀️☝️😅 Still live T-Rextasy though. Maybe we just do t feel up to it after do many loved ones ill after risking inj£ction$. 🤷♀️❤️🩹 💜🦢💜 keep a little of Marc in your Heart ❤️
I saw him in 1976 on Southport theatre on his Futuristic Dragon tour it wasn't sold out but he was fabulous, he had a great dragon behind the band with flashing eyes and smoke all for £1.75p great value...
No doubt Marc was first glam rock. But carnt help but think of Roy wood and the sparkly glittery outfits he would wear on tv during 1968-70. For me first glam rocker
"Gloria and Marc were involved in a traffic accident" is a polite way of saying Gloria J Bolan drove their car into a metal fence ... that killed him. A tree kept him it falling over an embankment. He died on the scene.
I was a huge fan of bolan when I was 13 to 16 years of age and I got the chance to meet him backstage of the free trade Hall Manchester he was very pleasant the last album I bought and still love to this day was tanx then he went down hill after that futuristic dragon was a massive flop I remember we love to boogie was released and feeling very disappointed as it sounds a 99% rip off of rockabilly artist Webb pierce teenage boogie I still Have all my scrap books posters records etc
Labeling T. Rex as teeny bop or simply pop music is such an injustice and inaccurate way to portray them. Just because they were appealing to the upcoming generation doesn't mean they were "little kid silly music," they were an outright rock and roll band and that's how they should be categorized. Even beyond this, Marc employed mythology surrealism and wrote his own music full of hard rockabilly, blues and cosmic acoustic ballads. The sheer fact that he was an influence on the punk movement as well with several acts from the ground 0 year of 1977 listing him as a major influence should completely negate the "teeny bopper" moniker.
Marc never married Gloria Johns he never divorced June. As for all sounding the same thats BS, if you could play Futuristic Dragon with only the music you would not guess it was T.Rex Tanx never sounded like The Slider, Electic Warrior was nothing like Unicorn. Many bands get "a sound' Beatles, Queen, Status Quo, ELO, you know who they are right away. Marc Started Glam Rock, TV has hardly a good word to say about Marc, he mentions drugs & drink yet i saw an interview with him and he admitted he was the same.For me best tribute band was Too Rex.
Marc bolan was absolutely brilliant fantastic singer of our generation sad he died so young but unfortunately it was meant to be he had already perticted his own death by saying that he would die in a mini he told one of the members of John's Children how he would die he said it wouldn't be a Rolls royce but a mini he was interviewed by Russell Harty and mentioned that he wouldn't grow old the reason why he never devorced June child was because deep down he was still in love with her but Gloria jones wasn't to blame for Marcs death either although many fans blamed her there is a painting of the same tree with the same moon in a Gallery in France which was identical to the same tree and moon on the night marc bolan was killed his number plate was fox and the song soild gold easy action had the words foxes from a tree also he worte im on the road Gloria when he was 8 he perticted he would become famous Marc bolan was psychic like myself i am too apparently later it came out that the mini never hit the tree it was the fence instead they hit another give away was when marc fell off the stage when he was with David bowie that was also a bad oman too so many ormans that perticted Marcs death
Can anyone tell me if T. Rexs drummer, ever appeared in a Catherine Cookson drama called the Glass Virgin? The main actor in it, is his double, or as I think it is him.
David Cassidy we miss you too
My partner said he remembers when he was a kid, on a hot summers day, his shoes went missing when he went swimming, so on the way back he had to wear big white wellies. He was at an ice cream van on the Upper Richmond Road and Marc Bolan was there and laughed at his skinny legs in shorts and big white wellies and ruffled his ginger hair. Lol! 😅
Thanks for sharing…😊Reminds me of the story June told about the young boy who lived in the upstairs flat to them, bouncing off the walls in Bolan’s flat because he was so excited about his new baseball boots, which he pronounced ”space ball boots”…It motivated Bolan to write the song Spaceball Ricochet.
You're welcome...and thank you. ☺
Very cool story!!❤
😂😂
Loved Marc bolan at the age of 15,still love him now age 60 best guy ever ❤❤❤
Wow! ....its great to see David Cassidy talking about Marc Bolan, my 2 hero's of the 70's!..I met Marc, he told me Cassidy was a really nice guy, same with McCartney.....I remember reading that Cassidy loved T.REX...happy days! - :)
Remove awful captions
This is where the line in the sand is upfront and in your face
Men and women
are equals
@@mikkqsmithwismith5565 - '''''''' NO '''''''
The difference between Bolan and the other teen idols at the time was that Bolan was actually a kickass musician.
Well said Julian...he was a great songwriter, poet, rhythm guitarist, and had a wonderfully unique singing voice. He was a delightful one off.
the other's were as good as Bolan
I've wondered if Marc & David ever met. Nice to know they did. What a feast for the eyes!
Yes...Along with Tony Visconti they were all friends before they became famous.
I wish I was born back then to see him live
They were great times…I saw him 3 times, and treasure those memories.
Correction, Marc was never married to Gloria Jones. He was still married to his wife June at the time of his death.
As the last of the legendary "trilogy" albums, Tanx is by far the most interesting, musically. Although it didn't garner the hits like Electric Warrior and The Slider, it showed Marc was aware of the need to progress & develope. Tanx was therefore, what Tony Visconti refered to as, "one more for the kids"! What he did afterwards only shows his further evolution. Marc gave The Damned a leg-up and said good things about The Ramones. He was in the present and not stuck in his early seventies high-point. We can only conjecture where he might have gone. I think he'd have remained totally relevent.
Thank you for the documentary. Never get enough of Marc and T Rex. Nice job!
"Girl I'm just a jeepster for your loooo-oove"
Dude that's killer lyrics.
Only for those in the UK. Your statement is funny to me because as an American I used to think it was one of the silliest lines in rock... Until I learned that "jeepster" was slang for "vampire". (Which Bolan actually sings at one point towards the end of the track - but as a kid I never put the two together.)
Jeepster was a cheap car. This is Junes song, He was saying she was a Jaguar, and he was a Jeepster...in their love...
@@suep3806 That’s awesome
Great to have David Cassidy narrating this tribute
Cassidy might have been the only dude in the early '70's who was as "pretty" as Marc. 😀
Awesome video. Thanks for sharing ❤️🎸👍
We BOUGHT the 45's and loved them!
That was the seventies pure❤
Saw him in "71. Alexandria Roller Rink , Va. USA $11 ticket price. For back then, ticket prices were $6.50 max. A small fortune to see a band who had not come to the states before. Jeepster and Get It On were played fairly regular on the radio stations. He had a good size audience. I thought they were GREAT!
Did you enjoy the gig Joe.? Wow! $11 in 1971 was a small fortune…I only paid £1.25 in 1975…ninebattles.com/tag/joe-bowieaddick/
@@joebowieaddick Oh Yeah! At first the audience did not no what to think of him. They were all cross legged on the floor. I was the only person on my feet throughout and he noticed this and played it up for me. The audience was rude to him. Real hippy dippy jerks. by the end of the show with Get It On, he suddenly won them over! It was a stellar moment and I was amazed at his professional confidence level for such a little guy. He was like a force of nature. Most memorable concert of my life.
@@supermamamaxi Thanks for sharing…Great memories! I saw him 3 times, and wouldn’t swap those memories for anything…He was a massive success all over the world, so It was strange how he never cracked America.
Great video tribute... love Marc Bolan & T Rex! 💖
Excellent job 👏 👍 👌
Thank you ricky
The Warrior
His spirit came his spirit has gone
But with Marc Bolan, you can still Get It On
T.rex they came and hit the scene
You should have heard, those girls scream
With his corkscrew hair and people so fair
He’d strut on the stage without worry or care
He knew just how to get into your mind
He’d bump and grind he was one of a kind
He’d caress you with his Persian glove
As he sang those words of hot Hot Love
He’d Ride A White Swan over Crimson Moon
Tickle your fancy with Venus Loon
Gave all he got, he gave it to you
Rock On, Hang Ups, and Cadilac too
All knew who was, was the Main man
With Rip Off, Slider, and Tanx in a can
Bill Legend, Steve Currie, Mickey Finn
Bumping and grinding from deep within
Satin jacket trousers, glitter under the eyes
I Love To Boogie with screams and cries
His B sides were good, as good as the A’s
Jeepster was part of the Glam Rock phase
Went to New York City he was The Groover
With Telegram Sam Marc was a mover
To some, it came as no great surprise
How this 20th Century Boy he did rise
Electric Warrior L.P. was pure bliss
Marc Bolan the Warrior we do miss.
By Peter Newell.
Awesome ❤
When he died it was the WORST thing that could ever happen!
Great video enjoyed watching nice tribute to Marc bolan & T REX
Excellent tribute Joe - well done as usual! 😀
It always amuses me when people leave comments claiming to know so much about Marc Bolan who didn’t know him personally or even met him. Only those who knew him personally knew what he was really like, as for the rest of the “experts” well the only comment is….an expert is…X is the sign of nothing and a spurt is a drip out of control. RIP AND LEAVE A LITTLE MARC IN YOUR HEART❤️
I'd argue David Bowie was more glam. Much love for Marc Bolan. RIP Marc and David.
I would have to give the glam nod to Bolan. (Ziggy was more a theater piece than a glam look.) But Bowie was certainly 100 times the songwriter.
@@termsofusepolice Amen. Love them both..
Um it was Marc who pioneered Glam rock and Bowie even said so himself.....
T Rex lives Rock ON😊
I never got to see Marc Bolan bcs I was too young in the 70’s …born in 1963 …but Husband and I were huge T-Rex fans ….and enjoyed many a great night with T-Rextasy at The Wedgwood Rooms in Pompey. But now they’ve moved to the Kings Theatre which is all seating and the price more than doubled. Why the Wedgwood was a perfect Venue. Shame we don’t go anymore now …I’m not ready to Dance in my Seat quite yet lol 🤷♀️☝️😅
Still live T-Rextasy though. Maybe we just do t feel up to it after do many loved ones ill after risking inj£ction$. 🤷♀️❤️🩹
💜🦢💜 keep a little of Marc in your Heart ❤️
I saw him in 1976 on Southport theatre on his Futuristic Dragon tour it wasn't sold out but he was fabulous, he had a great dragon behind the band with flashing eyes and smoke all for £1.75p great value...
No doubt Marc was first glam rock. But carnt help but think of Roy wood and the sparkly glittery outfits he would wear on tv during 1968-70. For me first glam rocker
They were good mates…There’s a nice tape of them jamming together in Marc’s flat.
Marc never married Gloria
"Gloria and Marc were involved in a traffic accident" is a polite way of saying Gloria J Bolan drove their car into a metal fence ... that killed him. A tree kept him it falling over an embankment. He died on the scene.
That's right because Marc 💜had NO involvement in the car crash, he was just a passenger.
she was drunk. They forget there are still people that remember.
She ruined his career and ended his life. No two ways about it.
Thank you for not sugar coating the truth. People are still making excuses that the lug nuts were loose. Bull crap. She’s fully responsible.
The guy that looks like Bolan is called John and not Danielz 😂😂😂
Marc Bolan was married once to June child.
Marc and Gloria weren't married.
Marc wasn’t married to Gloria.
I was a huge fan of bolan when I was 13 to 16 years of age and I got the chance to meet him backstage of the free trade Hall Manchester he was very pleasant
the last album I bought and still love to this day was tanx then he went down hill after that futuristic dragon was a massive flop I remember we love to boogie was released and feeling very disappointed as it sounds a 99% rip off of rockabilly artist Webb pierce teenage boogie
I still Have all my scrap books posters records etc
Where’s the rest of the tribute? It’s cut off.
The Bolan segment from the original broadcast is all there.
What Marc with a noserinģ
It's just the superimposed TOTPS graphics giving it that effect...☺
drunk driving is not an accident....Gloria was drunk
Labeling T. Rex as teeny bop or simply pop music is such an injustice and inaccurate way to portray them. Just because they were appealing to the upcoming generation doesn't mean they were "little kid silly music," they were an outright rock and roll band and that's how they should be categorized. Even beyond this, Marc employed mythology surrealism and wrote his own music full of hard rockabilly, blues and cosmic acoustic ballads. The sheer fact that he was an influence on the punk movement as well with several acts from the ground 0 year of 1977 listing him as a major influence should completely negate the "teeny bopper" moniker.
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Marc never married Gloria Johns he never divorced June. As for all sounding the same thats BS, if you could play Futuristic Dragon with only the music you would not guess it was T.Rex Tanx never sounded like The Slider, Electic Warrior was nothing like Unicorn. Many bands get "a sound' Beatles, Queen, Status Quo, ELO, you know who they are right away. Marc Started Glam Rock, TV has hardly a good word to say about Marc, he mentions drugs & drink yet i saw an interview with him and he admitted he was the same.For me best tribute band was Too Rex.
Marc bolan was absolutely brilliant fantastic singer of our generation sad he died so young but unfortunately it was meant to be he had already perticted his own death by saying that he would die in a mini he told one of the members of John's Children how he would die he said it wouldn't be a Rolls royce but a mini he was interviewed by Russell Harty and mentioned that he wouldn't grow old the reason why he never devorced June child was because deep down he was still in love with her but Gloria jones wasn't to blame for Marcs death either although many fans blamed her there is a painting of the same tree with the same moon in a Gallery in France which was identical to the same tree and moon on the night marc bolan was killed his number plate was fox and the song soild gold easy action had the words foxes from a tree also he worte im on the road Gloria when he was 8 he perticted he would become famous Marc bolan was psychic like myself i am too apparently later it came out that the mini never hit the tree it was the fence instead they hit another give away was when marc fell off the stage when he was with David bowie that was also a bad oman too so many ormans that perticted Marcs death
Thanks for watching Carol!
Those incidents are spooky...Used them for my Bolan Tribute video... ua-cam.com/video/h_2i29IBf_o/v-deo.html
Thanks for watching Roy!
Totally agree with your comment about about "sounding the same".
@@CarolAnnRunham marc wrote the road I am on, did he???
Yeah and Gloria was driving drunk too. They forget there are people that were around then and know the story.
Sweet was the best glam rock band
Can anyone tell me if T. Rexs drummer, ever appeared in a Catherine Cookson drama called the Glass Virgin? The main actor in it, is his double, or as I think it is him.
The drummers name is Bill Legend...I don't think he appeared in the drama.
Marc would have been 76 in 2024.
Frightening isn't it.? Most of the original fans are not that far behind!