Marc Bolan -died 40 year ago today.

well those are sh!te lyrics right there, who could deny that?

of its time I would suggest

Chariot Choogle from a great album (The Slider).
I loved T.Rex - First single I bought was "Children of the Revolution".   Songs like Hot Love, Cosmic Dancer, Get it On, Life's A Gas still work for me..

Went downhill after Ride a White Swan,imo

There is a Shrine in Barnes where the Car Crashed still gets Plenty of Visitors would Imagine more so ,on anniversaries.

What was the reason for the crash?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/16/newsid_2519000...

Gloria Jones, his partner and the mother of his son Roland, was driving the mini when it hit the tree. Gloria was responsible for the original version of Tainted Love, covered by Soft Cell and samples by Ri-Ri!

Liked his stuff from around late 1970 to mid 1972.  Went to seed rather badly after that for my money. His career was basically killed off by the Bowie/Ziggy phenomenon.

He had his own ITV prog. He was quite chubby and actually fell of the stage on one occasion. On the Top of the Pops appearance for Get it On, one Reg Dwight was playing the piano. Whatever became of him?

What was the reason for the crash?

The fact Bolan never learned to drive was an indirect factor, I suppose.

Which was odd, because he was a real petrol-head, and owned about a couple of dozen vehicles. I used to live with a girl whose dad once mended one of Bolan's cars, back when he used to live near Bolan, in Staines. (He said that the car he mended wasn't the Mini, but, then, he would, wouldn't he?)

On the Top of the Pops appearance for Get it On, one Reg Dwight was playing the piano. Whatever became of him?


If I'm correctly Young Slicer, the young Reggie Dwight became a lyricist for Elton John, writing under the pseudonym Bernard Tarpaulin.

I think you are right Alun. I believe he started a fad in China by writing a song about cooking reptiles, called Crocodile Wok.

Correct. It was the follow up to "Don't Let The Dim Sum Go Down On Me".

Thought so. He was also a clairvoyant knowing that David Cameron would be Prime  Minister by writing the song Lady Samantha about his wife!

dont know why he changed his name tbh ...........shirly woulda been a star anyway .............the introduction when george michael was dueting with elton  dont let ya son go down on me ...............ladies and gentlemen .........mr reg dwight has a certain jen ah sequior imo!

yeah he followed up dont let dim sun go down on me and crockodile wok with wocket man