40th anniversary of Marc Bolan's death 16th Sept

[mrtwiceaseason]

My first musical influence - and I was more affected by his death when I was aged 14 than I was by Bowie's death last year...
Interesting how he influenced the next group of bands that came after glam had ended that I subsequently got into...
RIP Marc

Didnt realise hed met ginger kev :+)

 

[OB1]

Bolan was good, indeed.
However, he modelled himself on Syd Barrett, so much so that he walked into the Pink Floyd management office one day saying he wanted a contract and that he wanted to be like Syd Barrett. There's a piccy of Syd on the cover of 'A Nice Pair' (1975? re-issue of the first two Floyd albums) and just about everyone that sees that piccy (myself included at first) asks why is there a picture of Marc Bolan on a Floyd album?

Then there was 'The Hawkwind Incident'. On Youtube there's a clip of Hawkwind miming to Quark, Strangeness and Charm' on the Bolan show (think that was recorded at Granada TV?) and Dave Brock isn't there, he refused to appear on the show; he hated Bolan because he believed that Bolan had ripped off 'Children of the Sun' and re-arranged it into 'Children of the Revolution'. Result - Bolan made money, Hawkwind didn't.

I actually saw Hawkwind at The Palace Theatre on the day Bolan died. Pretty sure they dedicated a song to him.

The first concert I ever attended was T.Rex at Belle Vue: they were the first band to be my favourite act. Despite all the screaming teenie boppers, Bolan ans his crew performed it like a rock band. Dunno about Marc wanting to be Syd Barrett but I'm pretty sure he'd have liked to be Led Zep. Anyhoo, I'd count Bolan as a huge influence on my musical taste.