Mark Feld was born in London in 1947, and adopted the stage name Marc Bolan as a teenager. Like many British rock stars of ...

At the outset of Ethan Silverman’s documentary “Angelheaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan & T. Rex,” Billy Idol relays an anecdote about Marc Bolan — the magnetic songwriter and frontman of the ...

Conventional wisdom says the T Rex catalogue was pretty patchy beyond those astonishing singles – but as this set proves, it’s more compicated than that, writes Alexis Petridis ...

Forty years on from T Rex's Electric Warrior, we visit Rock's Backpages – the world's leading archive of vintage music journalism – for Keith Altham's 1971 Record Mirror interview ...

Not that the music is entirely without merit. The best segment is from Nick Cave, who delivers a perfectly calibrated version of Bolan’s “Cosmic Dancer”, slowing it down and finding mystical depths in ...

Marc Bolan’s career had been in a slump before the 12th T. Rex album Dandy in the Underworld arrived on March 11, 1977 – or at least, that’s how the media presented it. Bolan himself had a different ...

As far as cinematic hagiographies go, Ethan Silverman’s “Angelheaded Hipster” should gratify fans of Marc Bolan (1947-77), the frizzy-haired mastermind behind a 1970s glam rock outfit, T. Rex. The ...

This story originally aired on Sept. 24, 2021. In 1971, Joe Elliott was 12 years old, and he was going to his first rock show. The band was T. Rex, touring their latest album, Electric Warrior.