It’s spring 1972 and Marc Bolan, the rest of T.Rex and producer Tony Visconti – who tells this story – are in a limo travelling from Orly airport to the 18th-century Château d’Hérouville (recently ...

T. Rex had 10 Top 10 U.K. singles between 1970 and 1973, including the 1971 classic "Bang a Gong (Get It On)" Bolan died in a 1977 car accident at age 29 Masculinity has long been a tricky topic in ...

T. Rex had 10 Top 10 U.K. singles between 1970 and 1973, including the 1971 classic "Bang a Gong (Get It On)" Bolan died in a 1977 car accident at age 29 Masculinity has long been a tricky topic in ...

But in early 1970, Took was replaced by Mickey Finn, and the group's acoustic sound started to included electric elements. Their 1969 single "King of the Rumbling Spires," as well as the A Beard of ...

Few artists enjoyed greater success in the U.K. to start the '70s than T. Rex, who scored a string of hit albums and singles and garnered hundreds of magazine headlines while leading the era’s ...

It was Aug. 11, 1973, at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. Onstage was Marc Bolan, the enigmatic singer of T. Rex, in a shiny purple jumpsuit unzipped to his navel, wailing on a Gibson Les Paul ...

Pop culture can be as forbidding as it is inviting, particularly in areas that invite geeky obsession: The more devotion a genre or series or subculture inspires, the easier it is for the uninitiated ...

It’s hard to imagine how voluminous late producer Hal Willner’s contact list must have been. Who else could employ musicians that range from top-tier names like U2, Elton John, Todd Rundgren, Kesha, ...

The son of T. Rex frontman Marc Bolan, Rolan Bolan, will be attending KCRW’s concert celebrating the 40 year anniversary of “The Slider” this Saturday at the Annenberg Space for Photography (featuring ...