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Cosmic Dancer - The Life & Music of Marc Bolan (Paperback)
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Marc Bolan, the biggest pop star in post-Beatles Britain, was
haunted by the fear that he would die before his 30th birthday. He
repeatedly told friends, family and colleagues that he had foreseen
his own death in a car crash and that the car would be a mini. He
had alluded to the tragedy in several songs and a poem in which he
named the tree that would become a shrine to his grieving fans. It
is said that he had also known the date of his death, gleaned from
a painting, titled 'The Sixteenth of September' by the Belgian
surrealist Rene Magritte which foreshadowed an iconic image on the
cover of his 'The Slider' album. Whatever the truth, it is a fact
that on that very date in 1977, two weeks short of his 30th
birthday, Bolan's morbid prophecy was fulfilled. In this definitive
new biography Paul Roland chronicles the life and music of the
vibrato-voiced glam rock idol and 20th century boy who created some
of the most instantly appealing and enduring songs of the 70s --
'Ride A White Swan', "Hot Love', 'Get It On', 'Telegram Sam',
'Children of the Revolution' and 'Solid Gold Easy Action' -- in
what appears to have been a fevered rush to cheat Fate. At the peak
of his popularity in 1972 the Beatles acknowledged Bolan and his
group T-Rex as their natural successor and Ringo Starr directed the
film that brought the fan hysteria known as T-Rextasy to a stagnant
British pop scene and which was to top the DVD charts 30 years
after it original release. That year the former working class
Hackney mod launched his own label and continued a run of number
one hits that accounted for 3.5% of the total singles sales in the
UK, outselling the combined singles sales of Jimi Hendrix and The
Who. But just when Bolan was at the summit of his success it all
went sour. This is the incredible story of Marc Bolan's
roller-coaster rise to fame and his resurrection as the self-styled
'Godfather of Punk' that promised to put him back on top until the
fatal accident which cut short his life and hopes of a comeback.
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