In the mid-1980's Marc Bolan's mum and dad lived in an humble 'shared ownership' house in Hobart Crescent Milton Keynes. I was a neighbour and 'Sid'(as he introduced himself, and sadly now departed) would come and chat if I was outside working in the garden. My wife had a blue Mini car and Sid came over and mentioned that they were unsafe and that his son had died in one. Up until that time I had no idea who he or his son was......... until he mentioned that his son was THE Marc Bolan. Marc's dad told me that he ('Sid') used to work for Lesney die-casting co (makers of 'Matchbox' toy cars) and had retired from London to live at Willen Park. Sid was a gentleman, ginger haired unlike his son. Marc looked very much like his mum, same dark hair. Occasionally, Marc's son was brought to see his grandparents in Willen park (a beautiful green Bentley would be parked outside 'Sid's house). Marc's kid was looked after / schooled overseas in L.A. and was brought to see his grandparents when visiting the UK.
*Theban Greenman*___ While it's not the Minis themselves that were "unsafe".....most cars are unsafe when driven intoxicated without seatbelts....Even a Mercedes limousine couldn't prevent Princess Diane from being mangled...
@@PAULLONDEN I ddint like to say any thing but June and Marc had been out to a drinking hole. Not meaning to be uncouth and wondered if they had been at the flavoured water. June strikes me as being lovely person and I dont wish to speak ill of her. We can all make a mistake. I just wondered that's all.
Sorry, but there was this band called the Beatles & their solo output. Beatles huge body of work & McCartney's too. Bolan had a fraction & 3yrs as a Glam rocker & that was his goose cooked.
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+davina davis So true. One such band were "The Bay City Rollers". Watch "Rollermania: Britains Biggest Ever Boy Band" on UA-cam. The poor guys worked their asses off. And never seen a penny.
Wow, that's terrible. While the current music industry might be more "fair" to an artist's compensation, they're often displaced quite quickly - replaced with other "manufactured" musicians...or vocalists with bands behind them, like many American Idol-type of winners. Few full album sales, just downloaded singles off iTunes and such. Remember the days of album cover art being displayed prominently? Not much to be seen there anymore. *And now the actual voice and instrumental experience is secondary to appearance, dance ability, and Twitter/social media presence.* UGH! The whole thing is kind of sad, really.
I had read somewhere that marc had his money managed by lawyers who invested it; thus once it was handed to them he had no access to it. Unfortunately not all musicians are smart with their money and trust dishonest handlers.
Amazing.....at the time though it was somewhat credible his millions got soaked up in Monaco on expensive rent hotel suites with all the lavish service , not to mention the drugs etc... Since Marc wrote all his own songs, and royalties being (in his case) a never ending huge money maker, plus the sales of his back catalogue *after* his death , certainly are worth millions ; which is ridiculous in the extreme, that *_those_* are still lost.....____His estate should hire some good quality detective lawyers with a "no cure no pay" deal....There would be enough willing to give it a go....Kenny Jones from the "Small Faces" managed to do it...
I read that they were coming home from a party that night and both of them had been drinking , she was driving the car and none of them wore a seatbelt (as it was the seventies it wasn't illegal to not wear one then)
Right, after a night out partying, dark unfamiliar roads and driving on the opposite side. Gloria Jones was probably unqualified to drive that night for a number of reasons
The person reference Jim Morrison Janis Joplin and Brian Jones I almost teared up he knows how many people die young even becoming close to 30 and I felt that
Marc Bolan was not a business man he was a dreamer, a musician and a brilliant one. To say he mustn't have been a nice person coz he didn't look after his son is nieve, hey he didn't know he was gunna die. Who does, he thought the dream would go on just like the rest of us. He was ripped off by a pack of money hungry bastards He was unique and I hope he is reincarnated, the fucked up world needs hope
Who got his millions? From what I read, during the aftermath of the accident, it was the UK government who got a huge percentage in order to pay all sorts of back taxes, estate taxes, and taxes on everything he owned. Then his wife, not Gloria, his legal wife, got a smaller bit of it, and she had to pay taxes on that money. The managers, record company execs and assorted lawyers also got more than some would realize by shady billing practices. After that, a group of people who were appointed or self appointed as trustees received or grabbed huge amounts of current and future profits. They were later investigated for supposed shady investments in art.(were is that art hanging btw?) Again very, very weird. Bolan had put his millions in an off shore bank account of some sort on the advice of his accountants, mainly to avoid insanely huge UK taxes. That money has never really been anything but a mystery because no one really knows just who has their fingers on it. His only known biological son never got anything of.substance until he sued and the trustees settled with him for a relatively small contractual amount. Don't know how much Bolans music makes these days, probably untold millions. So who is getting it? There's a few beneficiaries and public foundations like hospitals and schools but they are probably just a drop in the bucket and only to look good and shut up inquiring minds. Drive around LA or posh parts of London and wonder where some people get their millions, and you're probably looking at Marc Bolan's money right in front of you.
How right you are Kate. Twenty years ago I read a bizarre article about Marc Bolan in one of Australia's fairly reputable newspapers - The Sydney Morning Herald. The article outright stated that Marc Bolan was a front for a bunch of very clever record executives and marketing companies. They created "Marc Bolan" and his glam boy image, Upon his death they grabbed his millions as I doubt Bolan had the sense to even hire a lawyer to protect his music and subsequent monies generated from his "efforts." That is why after he passed in 1977 his "millions disappeared." They were NEVER his. Music has never been kind to artists and Marc Bolan does not strike me as a Peter Grant OR Mick Jagger. Bolan's career was over by '77as he only was "relevant" in the U.K. as glam rock was out. apart from KISS who were a hard rock/heavy metal band. The punks by '77 hated Elton John, The Rolling Stones and in particular Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin. The latter two bands were THE bands as they sold millions of records as well drawing millions of fans to their live concerts.
@@FrostedSeagull Bolan's music is still bringing in millions. He was a huge star overseas, though not really in America. Kind of like Pete Burns; Pete Burn's had a catalog of hits that should have kept him rich beyond belief; but he didn't keep his eye on the pound and sold away music rights for very small sums. And he wasn't as big a star as Bolan. They finally settled with Marc's son Roland for 11 million American dollars to be paid over a 20 yr. period; a fuckin' ripoff considering Marc Bolan's music royalties will likely net over 22 million pounds this year alone.
As I remember the tragic case of Marc Bolans death, £300,000 of his money was put in trust for his son Roland. The case was in Jersey and the lawyer was a Mr Labesse (senior) The money vanished...
What a nightmare to realise somebody came in the house ...at a perfect moment..and stole all the guitars. If he has some receits of the purchase these guitars should surface some day... Anyways, a year before my dad died he said to have around a million dollars..then he died....and there was nothing, while he had no weird money leak somewhere. His then girlfriend made a money run with all valuables days after his death to St Martin. But there was nothing to be found on paper.. This happen probably in many families. People who do such things should be burned at the stake... Anyways, am I stupid or can they not find the account where the royalties are being paid upon..
As I recall it was a concrete & metal divider they hit, not a tree. Also I have known folks-myself included-who drove their car with at least one wheel on low pressure and they had no trouble whatsoever managing the car. I have also known at least three folks whose tyre came off altogether when they were driving and they still managed to safely guide the car to the side of the road. The fact is that Jones was driving recklessly that night-was very drunk and speeding-and it resulted in Marc's death. She survived with only a busted jaw because she was behind the wheel so it braced her upon impact. It's true that enough of the facts in the police report reached the ears of Marc's fans in the UK that Jones started getting death threats not long after the accident. That's the reason she got her bottom back to the USA pronto.
Gloria Jones was an African American lady who was our next door neighbor in 1981 in LA. she was penniless. I believe she had a child with Bolan. I never reminded myself to ask about it via Bolan's closest friend...
@@INTOASECRETLAND - Right, After a night out partying, dark unfamiliar roads and driving on the opposite side. Gloria Jones was probably unqualified to drive that night for a number of reasons
Hendrix, Bolan, even Tommy Bolin's death draws questions. Most artists have been squandered by their shifty managers: Nugent, Petty, Aerosmith, etc. When artists starts to realize this fact, they myseriously end up dead. Would you kill for millions of dollars? What artists need, are people like Peter Grant.
At the end of the day after reading all the posts , I agree with Rowan Morrison, but also would like to add, if Marc did not bother to look after his money, then the only person to blame is Marc, people go on about the record industry ripping people off, this may be the case, but from the same era, Hendrix, The Stones, Gary Glitter, Slade, Sweet, to name a few, did okay. In fact when we lived in Gerrards Cross, I used to deliver The Sweets guitarists news paper, huge house with 2 black Mercs sitting outside.
+Paul Briden You are correct when you say Mick Jagger became a good businessman, with many decades of learning how not to let people take what was not their's. On the other side, Hendrix's band mates and their families still trying to get his money, decades after his he died. The whole rock and roll star, on the scale of these artists, was so new and big, that many of them were focused on the music, and did not get finances in order; they thought they would live to at least 30 I guess, and they could work on the boring financial business side of their work.
+Marcia-Lou Scott He should have hired Led Zeps manager Peter Grant, he looked after them big time, i am about 3 miles away from The Riot House now as i write, this is the hotel they used to stay at when they were in Los Angeles.
+Jan Gorski-Mescir This is fascinating. Thank you. I admit I had to look up the word "inveigled". I am thinking of Pete Ham of Bad Finger. One of the saddest stories in Rock and Roll.
Status Quo did a 2 year promo for Coles supermarkets Australia (down down),Frank & Rick said they did it for the money,cos they needed it,they blew a shed load of drugs back in the day.Garry G might have done OK but now he's in jail for kiddy fiddling,Brian Connolly had his throat kicked in by a couple of hired thugs because the managers wanted The Sweet to remain pop rockers,while the band had more serious intentions.The mercs were most likely leased.
That road was one of the most lethal in the area (I went to school nearby)...very deceptive bend,a road junction and a humpback bridge within yards of each other..at night,and if you are unfamiliar with the road it could be a death-trap. Marc's was not the only accident at that spot. The tree he hit was cut back shortly afterwards...though,as with so much about this case,the actual sequence of events is disputed.
June got a small payout that purchased a cottage in Baldock, at that time the umpteen solicitors were supposedly trying to locate the monies. All dirty business. I personally think Marc was going through his "exotic" period ( as we all did back then) with Gloria, she wasn't hot nor talented but he was desperate thinking that gaining weight and few gigs was the end. Poor guy he's of gotten through it all and still be around today.
".. I personally think Marc was going through his "exotic" period ( as we all did back then) with Gloria, ..." What exactly do you mean by exotic when referring to Gloria?
daniel213141 At the time in the UK dating was for the most part a like for like thing. Gloria was black, not British and quite "hippyish" a far cry from June who ,for all her indulgences, and perhaps appearance at times was quite together. By "exotic" I meant Marc's relationship was very different to his with June's. It was at the time we all experimented outside our class, race, nationality and age.
***** It may have been an era of non-conformity where inter-racial would cross a certain norm, but I would never assume I knew what was going on in another persons head, especially concerning a relationship. They had spent much time together and conceived a child. Far more then a passing fancy I would say.
daniel213141 Sorry we are not that unique, although we may fool ourselves into believing that, YES we can know what is going on in someone's head, that's how songs are written, movies are made, emotions are manipulated, you had to be there anyway.
***** Don't give me nonsense about uniqueness. It's presumptuous and racist to assume that the only reason a white man would be involved with a black women is because she is exotic not because they would have a natural affinity for each other like any other healthy relationship.
As that lawyer stated,..if you put money into off-shore accounts, then you have no control over it. Effectively, it's in a black hole. Ultimately, it was Labour's draconian 95% top tax rates which destroyed wealth creation and prosperity.
I have read that at this point Mickey Finn had become very jealous of Bolan and that fingers were pointed at tampering .However even if you try to engineer a car crash there is no guarantee that it will crash or even hurt anyone. The fact the mini was a last minute substitute makes that possibly more remote. They were death traps in high impact scenarios and many must have been killed in them over the years?
When albums are made, the record company gives an advance to the artist, which can be a huge sum. Depending on the contract, either the royalties from sales are used to repay the advance so if the sales aren't high enough to meet a big one, the artist can end up making nothing. Worse still, some contracts mean the artist has to repay the difference, so even an apparently big seller can leave an artist in debt. I have no surprise at the figures quoted here.
I been in old minis and it is not the vehicle of choice too kill your passenger.If you didn't know all Gloria had was a broken jaw you would think by the wreckage she was dead as well.If she purposely crashed that car to kill Marc knowing she would walk away with a broken jaw she was either a fucking genius or the worlds best stunt woman and she was neither.
No one famous can die through an accident without the theorists popping up with their bullshit.its almost like because your famous somehow you are not allowed to die like many ordinary people do every day.
No not stupid any more than you would have to be to try to purposely kill someone in a tinbox by wrapping it around a tree.Im not saying she wasn't to blame but what I am saying is some people suggest she purposely killed Marc.She may be to blame for his death but murder I think not
Barely mentioned was the accountants in all this,...were they hauled in by tax officers? They knew exactly the location of those off-shore accounts and how to access them.
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I've always thought that also because him dying,gloria walking away with just a broken jaw,and the car had just been serviced,and someone knew that he had given his driver the nite of so yeah,something is not adding up
Those old classic Minis were fricking death traps. If he’d been in a Range Rover or in his Rolls Royce, he’d have stepped out of that without a scratch. Should have hailed a taxi. What a waste of an incredible talent.
so what the fuck happened, why did the mini crash,was she pissed? was she charged for killing Marc Bolan? was there any investigation, obviously speeding,any acholol testing done on driver. seems strange there is no talk or info about this
I agree, it is very strange, what's even more strange is that apparently, Gloria Jones was supposed to appear in court on charges of being unfit to drive but she never actually came back to face the charges and Marc's death went down on the record as "accidental", make of that what you will.
I know this is a massive coincidence, but I can't stop thinking about it.. The number plate "FOX 66___" with the lyrics to one of his songs; "Life is the same And it always will be Easy as picking foxes from a tree" (Solid Gold Easy Action) Kills me every time. Yes he died, and I miss the hell out of this guy despite him dying before I was born.. The whole thing just weirds me the hell out
He said or so I read he heard on the news at 7am Marc had died. He collected his mother went to the house and then went to the morgue to identify body then he went back to Marcs house one and half hours later to discover it had been ransacked with no forced entry. Bit dodgy don't you think? And yet he claims elsewhere he got nothing but in this clip he shows off a pair of shoes a hat and a guitar and if I remember a fan gave them to him. Yeah right. First off he can't stick to a story and why would you go to his house? You would go straight to the morgue.
Ally K Well, maybe he was going to get rid of anything incriminating, like drugs !.. I think I know what you mean, but as his brother, wouldn't he have taken them for safekeeping and then just tell people ?...He seems too pissed off about it for me !!....that's why I think his roadies/techs/scum mates did it !!..
.... After watching his documentary , watching Elton John playing piano in some of his sessions ... then the car crash, and Marc is dead ... then, watch how rapidly thereafter Elton John rose in fame , and how Elton emulated Marc's wardrobe dressing , the glam , the boas , etc.. etc.... smells to me like an Illuminati blood sacrifice for Elton John ... oooooh yea, indeed .
I was told they didn't check the car at the site and it didn't go to the police pound it was sent to a normal garage first the police made a mistake where they said the car should be taken
The band members were treated like wage slaves. Bill's pay went up from £40 to £50, in all the time he was with Marc. He should have paid them a lot more and off set the costs of running his business.
well... 1) loosening tire pressure and a couple of lug nuts is a piss poor way to murder someone. 2) and how would that protect someone from the swindling of his fortune? one stealing it would rather not shine a spot light on it.
All these americans slagging off glam rock,it`s still rock and roll,but don`t take glam rock too serious,there`s some gems in there.We had dopey American imports Donny Osmond and gay vid Cassidy at the time.Who did you have that were worth anything other than them 2 puffs?
Artistic types aren't too good at managing their money. He lived it up, never thinking about tomorrow, music management fees are huge too, and taxes took the rest.
I gave a 'white label' [demo] of ''Ride a White Swan' away to this thug who kept banging my decks when I was DJing once..... made him go away - but at what cost?
Bolan wasn't the only artiste from the 1970s that got fleeced, the Bay City Rollers should have all been millionaires but they were all penniless young lads from the start of their career till the end , someone made millions, but it wasn't them.
Earnings got shifted into off shore accounts, literally a black hole. And all to beat the taxman but little wonder with Labour top tax rates of 95%. But that's socialism for you,...it kills wealth creation and prosperity.
the car was set up to crash because marc was trying to find where his money was so the record company refused to pay 4 million dollars so they rigged the front tire to shake and loose control //
Lol @ racists here hating on Bolan's jungle fever. Some thot was whining about it in his doc, calling her a groupie. Pretty sure tainted love is a bigger hit in the states than any T Rex track
When will someone in Hollywood do his biopic? I think Jared Leto could pull that off! And he is a musical talent as well. (Sorry just not on the notch of Marc)
I think Marc was too clever, too shrewd by half with his finances. He would have known where every penny went. He was just as unscrupulous as all the other sharks in the industry. He paid no tax between 1970 and 1977. Astonishing and very risky. That he thought he could get away with it was very foolish. In the end, he would have ended up in court and facing jail time. That would have forced him to cough up but if he could not access those far away funds, then they would have taken all other assets including his home and guitars, etc.
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My friends followed Slade. I followed T-Rex. Yup, I was a 70's teen. Still have my 45's.
Main Man ~Marc..gone but never forgotten. His energy and love live on in his son and his music. ❤
In the mid-1980's Marc Bolan's mum and dad lived in an humble 'shared ownership' house in Hobart Crescent Milton Keynes. I was a neighbour and 'Sid'(as he introduced himself, and sadly now departed) would come and chat if I was outside working in the garden. My wife had a blue Mini car and Sid came over and mentioned that they were unsafe and that his son had died in one. Up until that time I had no idea who he or his son was......... until he mentioned that his son was THE Marc Bolan.
Marc's dad told me that he ('Sid') used to work for Lesney die-casting co (makers of 'Matchbox' toy cars) and had retired from London to live at Willen Park. Sid was a gentleman, ginger haired unlike his son. Marc looked very much like his mum, same dark hair. Occasionally, Marc's son was brought to see his grandparents in Willen park (a beautiful green Bentley would be parked outside 'Sid's house). Marc's kid was looked after / schooled overseas in L.A. and was brought to see his grandparents when visiting the UK.
Marc died too soon I wish he was still here now RIP Marc xxx
*Theban Greenman*___ While it's not the Minis themselves that were "unsafe".....most cars are unsafe when driven intoxicated without seatbelts....Even a Mercedes limousine couldn't prevent Princess Diane from being mangled...
David Bowie took care of Marcs son
@@PAULLONDEN I ddint like to say any thing but June and Marc had been out to a drinking hole. Not meaning to be uncouth and wondered if they had been at the flavoured water.
June strikes me as being lovely person and I dont wish to speak ill of her. We can all make a mistake. I just wondered that's all.
Mr.@@PAULLONDEN in grief we make can make up up coping strategies .......I dont blame his father for that.
Marc bolan was the best and sill is no one will be that good ever rock on
Sorry, but there was this band called the Beatles & their solo output. Beatles huge body of work & McCartney's too. Bolan had a fraction & 3yrs as a Glam rocker & that was his goose cooked.
@@annalishagoring who?
the more I read about Marc, the more I love him.
...he was cool , 2 shows in Germany in the 70th when i was young ... beautiful rockin influences ! R.I.P. Marc
There was only one ✨Marc Bolan✨
There will never be another Marc Bolan.
Sadly missed, and still, very, very much loved. then, now and forever.
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T-REX the Genius ever
Great music is 70's decades! Wow!!! Marc the best!! Gloria Jones beautiful!!
marc was great i was too young to remember t rex in their heyday
Gone but not forgotten
He was and is still a part, a big part of our lives.
Had the pleasure of meeting him in concert in Boston Loverly man he gave me and my friend a kiss
A lot of pop stars in the 60s and 70s got Ripped off and made little money of their careers.
+davina davis So true. One such band were "The Bay City Rollers". Watch "Rollermania: Britains Biggest Ever Boy Band" on UA-cam. The poor guys worked their asses off. And never seen a penny.
Wow, that's terrible. While the current music industry might be more "fair" to an artist's compensation, they're often displaced quite quickly - replaced with other "manufactured" musicians...or vocalists with bands behind them, like many American Idol-type of winners. Few full album sales, just downloaded singles off iTunes and such. Remember the days of album cover art being displayed prominently? Not much to be seen there anymore. *And now the actual voice and instrumental experience is secondary to appearance, dance ability, and Twitter/social media presence.* UGH! The whole thing is kind of sad, really.
I had read somewhere that marc had his money managed by lawyers who invested it; thus once it was handed to them he had no access to it. Unfortunately not all musicians are smart with their money and trust dishonest handlers.
I'm glad 2020-21 music sux.... I now have discovered T. REX!!! ...again.
Amazing.....at the time though it was somewhat credible his millions got soaked up in Monaco on expensive rent hotel suites with all the lavish service , not to mention the drugs etc...
Since Marc wrote all his own songs, and royalties being (in his case) a never ending huge money maker, plus the sales of his back catalogue *after* his death , certainly are worth millions ; which is ridiculous in the extreme, that *_those_* are still lost.....____His estate should hire some good quality detective lawyers with a "no cure no pay" deal....There would be enough willing to give it a go....Kenny Jones from the "Small Faces" managed to do it...
He's not forgotten...
I read that they were coming home from a party that night and both of them had been drinking , she was driving the car and none of them wore a seatbelt (as it was the seventies it wasn't illegal to not wear one then)
I heard it was Keith Moon’s party...
Right, after a night out partying, dark unfamiliar roads and driving on the opposite side. Gloria Jones was probably unqualified to drive that night for a number of reasons
i am 39 and i was three years old when he died he was so awesome man of his time in the 1970s.
So sad.my talented Marc. Bolan.the very beginning of sheer originality
The person reference Jim Morrison Janis Joplin and Brian Jones I almost teared up he knows how many people die young even becoming close to 30 and I felt that
Marc Bolan was not a business man he was a dreamer, a musician and a brilliant one. To say he mustn't have been a nice person coz he didn't look after his son is nieve, hey he didn't know he was gunna die. Who does, he thought the dream would go on just like the rest of us. He was ripped off by a pack of money hungry bastards
He was unique and I hope he is reincarnated, the fucked up world needs hope
Who got his millions? From what I read, during the aftermath of the accident, it was the UK government who got a huge percentage in order to pay all sorts of back taxes, estate taxes, and taxes on everything he owned. Then his wife, not Gloria, his legal wife, got a smaller bit of it, and she had to pay taxes on that money. The managers, record company execs and assorted lawyers also got more than some would realize by shady billing practices. After that, a group of people who were appointed or self appointed as trustees received or grabbed huge amounts of current and future profits. They were later investigated for supposed shady investments in art.(were is that art hanging btw?) Again very, very weird. Bolan had put his millions in an off shore bank account of some sort on the advice of his accountants, mainly to avoid insanely huge UK taxes. That money has never really been anything but a mystery because no one really knows just who has their fingers on it. His only known biological son never got anything of.substance until he sued and the trustees settled with him for a relatively small contractual amount. Don't know how much Bolans music makes these days, probably untold millions. So who is getting it? There's a few beneficiaries and public foundations like hospitals and schools but they are probably just a drop in the bucket and only to look good and shut up inquiring minds. Drive around LA or posh parts of London and wonder where some people get their millions, and you're probably looking at Marc Bolan's money right in front of you.
How right you are Kate. Twenty years ago I read a bizarre article about Marc Bolan in one of Australia's fairly reputable newspapers - The Sydney Morning Herald. The article outright stated that Marc Bolan was a front for a bunch of very clever record executives and marketing companies. They created "Marc Bolan" and his glam boy image, Upon his death they grabbed his millions as I doubt Bolan had the sense to even hire a lawyer to protect his music and subsequent monies generated from his "efforts."
That is why after he passed in 1977 his "millions disappeared." They were NEVER his. Music has never been kind to artists and Marc Bolan does not strike me as a Peter Grant OR Mick Jagger. Bolan's career was over by '77as he only was "relevant" in the U.K. as glam rock was out. apart from KISS who were a hard rock/heavy metal band.
The punks by '77 hated Elton John, The Rolling Stones and in particular Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin. The latter two bands were THE bands as they sold millions of records as well drawing millions of fans to their live concerts.
@@FrostedSeagull Bolan's music is still bringing in millions. He was a huge star overseas, though not really in America. Kind of like Pete Burns; Pete Burn's had a catalog of hits that should have kept him rich beyond belief; but he didn't keep his eye on the pound and sold away music rights for very small sums. And he wasn't as big a star as Bolan. They finally settled with Marc's son Roland for 11 million American dollars to be paid over a 20 yr. period; a fuckin' ripoff considering Marc Bolan's music royalties will likely net over 22 million pounds this year alone.
As I remember the tragic case of Marc Bolans death, £300,000 of his money was put in trust for his son Roland. The case was in Jersey and the lawyer was a Mr Labesse (senior) The money vanished...
Ray Carcel Hi Ray, David Bowie payed the money for Roland.
That wasn't publicised, I didn't hear about it anyway. What a thoroughly nice bloke David Bowie is.
Thanks for that info.
Bowie is Roland's Godfather ;)
What a nightmare to realise somebody came in the house ...at a perfect moment..and stole all the guitars. If he has some receits of the purchase these guitars should surface some day... Anyways, a year before my dad died he said to have around a million dollars..then he died....and there was nothing, while he had no weird money leak somewhere. His then girlfriend made a money run with all valuables days after his death to St Martin. But there was nothing to be found on paper.. This happen probably in many families. People who do such things should be burned at the stake... Anyways, am I stupid or can they not find the account where the royalties are being paid upon..
I keep Marc in my heart and would like to se his fortune go on to his beloved family may Marc rest in peace. Xxxx Dawn-adelle xxx
Set up I say?.
Just so bloody sad, loved him. Someone screwed him And his estate over big time feel for his family and Gloria and his son
Oh Man...I just love me some Marc Bolan.
As I recall it was a concrete & metal divider they hit, not a tree.
Also I have known folks-myself included-who drove
their car with at least one wheel on low pressure
and they had no trouble whatsoever managing the car.
I have also known at least three folks whose tyre came
off altogether when they were driving and they still managed
to safely guide the car to the side of the road. The fact is
that Jones was driving recklessly that night-was very drunk
and speeding-and it resulted in Marc's death. She survived with
only a busted jaw because she was behind the wheel so it braced
her upon impact. It's true that enough of the facts in the police
report reached the ears of Marc's fans in the UK that Jones started
getting death threats not long after the accident. That's the reason
she got her bottom back to the USA pronto.
And Marc wore the Mini engine,buried in his guts.
Gloria's injury was more than a busted jaw, she also suffered internal injuries and a broken arm.
Dumb fuck!
@marcus telepneff Jones or...who?
they car hit both first the metal thing then the tree behind it that made the car stop
Gloria Jones was an African American lady who was our next door neighbor in 1981 in LA. she was penniless. I believe she had a child with Bolan. I never reminded myself to ask about it via Bolan's closest friend...
I'm pretty sure he did, as evidence of the video.
If you look at that wreck.And then think that someone purposely crashed that car to kill someone else sat beside them then you are deluded.
Only if seriously suicidal, I imagine. Like the crazy female character in Vanilla Sky (film) that tries to kill Tom Cruise's character.
She was probably stoned. That plus being a shit driver...not the best combination.
@@zorroalphonso4354 maybe you've misunderstood the comment.
@@INTOASECRETLAND - Right, After a night out partying, dark unfamiliar roads and driving on the opposite side. Gloria Jones was probably unqualified to drive that night for a number of reasons
@@randolfo1265 not anymore than he would be
Hendrix, Bolan, even Tommy Bolin's death draws questions. Most artists have been squandered by their shifty managers: Nugent, Petty, Aerosmith, etc. When artists starts to realize this fact, they myseriously end up dead. Would you kill for millions of dollars? What artists need, are people like Peter Grant.
The music industry was then and still now run by mobsters.The old blues guys called it the killing floor.
@@rangerjaxmaxmay7742 The Small Faces too.
At the end of the day after reading all the posts , I agree with Rowan Morrison, but also would like to add, if Marc did not bother to look after his money, then the only person to blame is Marc, people go on about the record industry ripping people off, this may be the case, but from the same era, Hendrix, The Stones, Gary Glitter, Slade, Sweet, to name a few, did okay. In fact when we lived in Gerrards Cross, I used to deliver The Sweets guitarists news paper, huge house with 2 black Mercs sitting outside.
+Paul Briden You are correct when you say Mick Jagger became a good businessman, with many decades of learning how not to let people take what was not their's. On the other side, Hendrix's band mates and their families still trying to get his money, decades after his he died. The whole rock and roll star, on the scale of these artists, was so new and big, that many of them were focused on the music, and did not get finances in order; they thought they would live to at least 30 I guess, and they could work on the boring financial business side of their work.
+Marcia-Lou Scott He should have hired Led Zeps manager Peter Grant, he looked after them big time, i am about 3 miles away from The Riot House now as i write, this is the hotel they used to stay at when they were in Los Angeles.
+Jan Gorski-Mescir
I'm quite curious who your friend is.
Would you mind telling me who he is?
+Jan Gorski-Mescir This is fascinating. Thank you. I admit I had to look up the word "inveigled". I am thinking of Pete Ham of Bad Finger. One of the saddest stories in Rock and Roll.
Status Quo did a 2 year promo for Coles supermarkets Australia (down down),Frank & Rick said they did it for the money,cos they needed it,they blew a shed load of drugs back in the day.Garry G might have done OK but now he's in jail for kiddy fiddling,Brian Connolly had his throat kicked in by a couple of hired thugs because the managers wanted The Sweet to remain pop rockers,while the band had more serious intentions.The mercs were most likely leased.
I drive a ROLLS ROYCE ...'cause its good for mah voice !
sad sad story - T. REX runs forever
That road was one of the most lethal in the area (I went to school nearby)...very deceptive bend,a road junction and a humpback bridge within yards of each other..at night,and if you are unfamiliar with the road it could be a death-trap.
Marc's was not the only accident at that spot.
The tree he hit was cut back shortly afterwards...though,as with so much about this case,the actual sequence of events is disputed.
My neighbours have the same car registration plate!
June got a small payout that purchased a cottage in Baldock, at that time the umpteen solicitors were supposedly trying to locate the monies. All dirty business. I personally think Marc was going through his "exotic" period ( as we all did back then) with Gloria, she wasn't hot nor talented but he was desperate thinking that gaining weight and few gigs was the end. Poor guy he's of gotten through it all and still be around today.
".. I personally think Marc was going through his "exotic" period ( as we all did back then) with Gloria, ..."
What exactly do you mean by exotic when referring to Gloria?
daniel213141 At the time in the UK dating was for the most part a like for like thing. Gloria was black, not British and quite "hippyish" a far cry from June who ,for all her indulgences, and perhaps appearance at times was quite together. By "exotic" I meant Marc's relationship was very different to his with June's. It was at the time we all experimented outside our class, race, nationality and age.
*****
It may have been an era of non-conformity where inter-racial would cross a certain norm, but I would never assume I knew what was going on in another persons head, especially concerning a relationship.
They had spent much time together and conceived a child. Far more then a passing fancy I would say.
daniel213141 Sorry we are not that unique, although we may fool ourselves into believing that, YES we can know what is going on in someone's head, that's how songs are written, movies are made, emotions are manipulated, you had to be there anyway.
***** Don't give me nonsense about uniqueness. It's presumptuous and racist to assume that the only reason a white man would be involved with a black women is because she is exotic not because they would have a natural affinity for each other like any other healthy relationship.
No kocham go to jest cudo moje
No dawaj chce Go słuchać i już
As that lawyer stated,..if you put money into off-shore accounts, then you have no
control over it. Effectively, it's in a black hole. Ultimately, it was Labour's draconian
95% top tax rates which destroyed wealth creation and prosperity.
I have read that at this point Mickey Finn had become very jealous of Bolan and that fingers were pointed at tampering .However even if you try to engineer a car crash there is no guarantee that it will crash or even hurt anyone. The fact the mini was a last minute substitute makes that possibly more remote. They were death traps in high impact scenarios and many must have been killed in them over the years?
I'm guessing record company weasels.
When albums are made, the record company gives an advance to the artist, which can be a huge sum. Depending on the contract, either the royalties from sales are used to repay the advance so if the sales aren't high enough to meet a big one, the artist can end up making nothing. Worse still, some contracts mean the artist has to repay the difference, so even an apparently big seller can leave an artist in debt. I have no surprise at the figures quoted here.
I wonder if Tony Visconti got his white Stratocaster back.
I been in old minis and it is not the vehicle of choice too kill your passenger.If you didn't know all Gloria had was a broken jaw you would think by the wreckage she was dead as well.If she purposely crashed that car to kill Marc knowing she would walk away with a broken jaw she was either a fucking genius or the worlds best stunt woman and she was neither.
No one famous can die through an accident without the theorists popping up with their bullshit.its almost like because your famous somehow you are not allowed to die like many ordinary people do every day.
No not stupid any more than you would have to be to try to purposely kill someone in a tinbox by wrapping it around a tree.Im not saying she wasn't to blame but what I am saying is some people suggest she purposely killed Marc.She may be to blame for his death but murder I think not
Austin Reid they gotta blame someone she was only one who lived so she gets the unfortunate blame
Barely mentioned was the accountants in all this,...were they hauled in by tax officers?
They knew exactly the location of those off-shore accounts and how to access them.
I've seen an acoustic guitar that belonged to him with a rastaman in Albufeira , Algarve 1981.
His kid should have a guitar from his dad.
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When June received that cheque, notice how her bank must have alerted the taxman.
Probably under strict orders to do so.
When was this doc done, be good to know looks early 90s?
September 2003
LITTLE RICHARD, JOHN LENNON,
FREDDIE MERCURY, MARC BOLAN.
they know the people who managed him robbed him blind
they keep saying the car hit a tree it didnt it was a concrete bollard they hit
They hit a giant queen ant which was terrorizing the neighborhood and biting people's heads off but the authorities covered it up as usual 🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🤡🤡🤡🤡🎃🎃🎈🧨🎍
@@TheKonga88 The queen ant was in a very bad mood, she'd got the taxman chasing after her!
Very sad he was two young two passaway rip Mr
Too*** young, not two (which means 2) young.
I still think he was eliminated. He was beautiful and smart. He was to me a genius.
I've always thought that also because him dying,gloria walking away with just a broken jaw,and the car had just been serviced,and someone knew that he had given his driver the nite of so yeah,something is not adding up
Those old classic Minis were fricking death traps. If he’d been in a Range Rover or in his Rolls Royce, he’d have stepped out of that without a scratch. Should have hailed a taxi. What a waste of an incredible talent.
Whats the song playing at 4:55?. Heard it a few times but can't remember what it was called.
Hi Liam, it's called 'there was a time' and included in the song 'raw ramp'
ua-cam.com/video/yPtYQsvAABk/v-deo.html
pewtersuitor brill. Cheers mate.
so what the fuck happened, why did the mini crash,was she pissed?
was she charged for killing Marc Bolan?
was there any investigation, obviously speeding,any acholol testing done on driver.
seems strange there is no talk or info about this
I agree, it is very strange, what's even more strange is that apparently, Gloria Jones was supposed to appear in court on charges of being unfit to drive but she never actually came back to face the charges and Marc's death went down on the record as "accidental", make of that what you will.
Cover up ..... comes to mind?
I know this is a massive coincidence, but I can't stop thinking about it.. The number plate "FOX 66___" with the lyrics to one of his songs;
"Life is the same
And it always will be
Easy as picking foxes from a tree" (Solid Gold Easy Action) Kills me every time.
Yes he died, and I miss the hell out of this guy despite him dying before I was born.. The whole thing just weirds me the hell out
I remember she was charged with manslaughter.
Wonder what happened to his Les Paul and other instruments !...
a gibson flying v ended up on antinques roadshow.....with a bullshit story on how it surfaced
+darksorcerermusic The brother has never admitted he was the one who stole all his stuff? I'd bet my last dollar he did.
Ally K Not sure about that ! Would he have key for house ? What about scummie mates or management !!..
He said or so I read he heard on the news at 7am Marc had died. He collected his mother went to the house and then went to the morgue to identify body then he went back to Marcs house one and half hours later to discover it had been ransacked with no forced entry. Bit dodgy don't you think? And yet he claims elsewhere he got nothing but in this clip he shows off a pair of shoes a hat and a guitar and if I remember a fan gave them to him. Yeah right. First off he can't stick to a story and why would you go to his house? You would go straight to the morgue.
Ally K Well, maybe he was going to get rid of anything incriminating, like drugs !.. I think I know what you mean, but as his brother, wouldn't he have taken them for safekeeping and then just tell people ?...He seems too pissed off about it for me !!....that's why I think his roadies/techs/scum mates did it !!..
The TAX Man
.... After watching his documentary , watching Elton John playing piano in some of his sessions ... then the car crash, and Marc is dead ... then, watch how rapidly thereafter Elton John rose in fame , and how Elton emulated Marc's wardrobe dressing , the glam , the boas , etc.. etc.... smells to me like an Illuminati blood sacrifice for Elton John ... oooooh yea, indeed .
Marc and Elton had little in common. Bowie was similar, but survived.
Management and record company are the ones who ripped em off in those days.
Mark finally asked to see his accounts and he was subsequently murdered 2 weeks later. His money is in off sure account in Bermuda
I was told they didn't check the car at the site and it didn't go to the police pound it was sent to a normal garage first the police made a mistake where they said the car should be taken
Sure , Gloria, he was part of your life, and you Killed Him!
Who got Bolan's millions? The coke dealers.
swerdna12069 the LAWYERS.
What a classless remark.
Triste 😢
how come i can't watch part two xx
The second part is like the Emperors new clothes, only intelligent people can see it. If it makes you feel any better I can't see it either.
The band members were treated like wage slaves. Bill's pay went up from £40 to £50,
in all the time he was with Marc.
He should have paid them a lot more and off set the costs of running his business.
If he had an an American car, he would have survived. He would have been sitting on the other side.
well... 1) loosening tire pressure and a couple of lug nuts is a piss poor way to murder someone. 2) and how would that protect someone from the swindling of his fortune? one stealing it would rather not shine a spot light on it.
T.Rex great
All these americans slagging off glam rock,it`s still rock and roll,but don`t take glam rock too serious,there`s some gems in there.We had dopey American imports Donny Osmond and gay vid Cassidy at the time.Who did you have that were worth anything other than them 2 puffs?
marc was bisexuality too.
You killed Marc
£10,000 in 1977 is hardly nothing.
Millions??? He drove a £1000 car.
Was David Bowie associated in any way with Marc Bolan?
They were friends.. www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2025138/How-David-Bowie-saved-Marc-Bolans-son.html
Most pop starts of that time made very little money
Artistic types aren't too good at managing their money. He lived it up, never thinking about tomorrow, music management fees are huge too, and taxes took the rest.
This is a bit sick
Мы, в 70-80 г."торчали" от их музыки.Хотя они ни когда не были в СССРе.
I gave a 'white label' [demo] of ''Ride a White Swan' away to this thug who kept banging my decks when I was DJing once..... made him go away - but at what cost?
Not me.
Well I certainly didnt I can tell you that.
Bolan wasn't the only artiste from the 1970s that got fleeced, the Bay City Rollers should have all been millionaires but they were all penniless young lads from the start of their career till the end , someone made millions, but it wasn't them.
Earnings got shifted into off shore accounts, literally a black hole.
And all to beat the taxman but little wonder with Labour top tax rates of 95%.
But that's socialism for you,...it kills wealth creation and prosperity.
The same happened to Bros, it broke their hearts when they had to give the porsche`s back.
the car was set up to crash because marc was trying to find where his money was so the record company refused to pay 4 million dollars so they rigged the front tire to shake and loose control //
マークボランが死んだのはグロリアジョーンズが事故を起こしたわけですからお辛いでしょう。
Lol @ racists here hating on Bolan's jungle fever. Some thot was whining about it in his doc, calling her a groupie.
Pretty sure tainted love is a bigger hit in the states than any T Rex track
Marc was the epitome of a rock star,what a waste.
Werr gonna die of boredom.
Gloria was not responsible for Marc's death. Sadly, as the saying goes: "shit happens".
The patronizing, smarmy voice-over didn't help this programme
When will someone in Hollywood do his biopic? I think Jared Leto could pull that off! And he is a musical talent as well. (Sorry just not on the notch of Marc)
Why Hollywood?
They should do it here.
I think Marc was too clever, too shrewd by half with his finances.
He would have known where every penny went.
He was just as unscrupulous as all the other sharks in the industry.
He paid no tax between 1970 and 1977. Astonishing and very risky.
That he thought he could get away with it was very foolish.
In the end, he would have ended up in court and facing jail time.
That would have forced him to cough up but if he could not access those
far away funds, then they would have taken all other assets including
his home and guitars, etc.
so do you
C'est inoui et pourtant ! Avait-il autant d'argent qu'il le disait ou bien quelques mystérieux hommes d'affaires se sont servis ?
Rolan Bolan ;)
And Zowie Bowie - now Duncan
Rolan Feld, i guess.
I am a fan but judging that he looked a grinning mess a lot of the time I would say his missing millions went up his nose
The only conspiracy was Paul McCartney's death. Conveniently misses his name out lol
Just joking.
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