It was nice to see Marc embracing and praising punk rock towards the end. Sadly, he didn't get to enjoy it long enough to play it on his records himself. R.I.P. Marc✌
He definitely was aware of the next wave and liked the Pistols, Ramones and the rest. He liked to rock n roll and not fight in a mosh pit. He was into feeling and looking good not screaming and fighting someone. So he got the style but he wasn’t negative. RIP Marc Bolan
Nah, he had already fallen out of favor with critics and audiences by the time he died. And the music of the 80's didn't suck. The Alternative music scene of the 90's was birthed in the 80's. Hip hop was on it's way to mainstream in the 80's. The seeds of Grunge were germinating in the 80's. Electronic music was slowly becoming mainstream in the 80's. Punk was still around. Avant Garde underground music was brewing in big cities all over the world. The 80's was a great decade for music. The only people that don't think so are the ones who cared only for top 40 charts and had no other outlets of obtaining music.
@@cactaceous Hmm… so the favour of critics is essential to great music? I believe to the contrary that Mr. Bolan woulda loved the 80s and been making great music in spite of the critics because he was a force of nature.. He woulda just kept on going and doing his thing. Like, he would definitely have appeared at Live Aid. He would have probably worked with Queen at some point. He was capable of reinvention in a similar way to Mr. Bowie. Someone said 'New Wave', but I can see him in L.A. making sleaze metal too with GNR or Motley Crue, that crowd… Slash's top hat, after all, Mr. Bolan wore one on the cover of The Slider… Sadly, it was not to be in this time stream...
In the extended version of Marc's interview he say that in the future punk music would have strings in their songs, well he basically predicted the new romantics genre! Bolan was way ahead of his time he was amazing! (And very sexy 😍) and I so wish he had lived longer, he would've fit right in the with 80s!
As Billy Joel stated: Hot funk, cool punk, even if it's old junk. It's still rock n roll to me. Next phase, new wave, dance craze, anyways. It's still rock n roll to me!
Marc bolan brought something new to the table he moved with times and was loved by all of his fans he was definitely ahead of his time and when punk came along he went along with it and joined in with the new wave bands of the late 70s he showed how interesting he was what the new kids were bringing to the table and got involved with them that showed real craftmans ship to the next generation of artists that were coming along he would have been great at it when the 80s started and would have loved the new wave movement with passion pity he died so young how ironic that was when things were moving for him he was absolutely brilliant fantastic thanks Marc bolan for the music and for being my pop idol i love you always from a true Trex fan im now 63 but Marc bolan is still my pop idole to this day ❤️💋👍🎶🎤
This was n is an incredible person! His music! His character! His charm! So smart so beautiful n so comfortable in himself! Legends live 4ever! Legend!
A hippy punk, in a way… I'm gonna go put on Dandy In The Underworld… the last song (was it? More or less, I guess…) on the last album he released was for the punks, 'Teen Riot Structure'.
He was accused of latching on a bit in 77, but I find the critics funny. Let's not forget that this guy had started his career solo with a £12.00 guitar, then got a guy to play bongos with him, then developed into a monster giant, he knew what he was doing, who knows what his next move was. His drive was phenomenal so he could of made it huge in the 80s, 90s. Look at his contemporaries afterwards, and it was Marc who paved the way for them....
Some bands / singers have made hugely successful comebacks ! No reason why Marc wouldn't have done so ! He was hugely talented , that often shines through !
All the big ones noticed punk from afar, some took to it and others recoiled. Bolan toured with Damned and was among the first to embrace it. In a way he must have felt it was as stripped down as the rock he once adored as a young teen.
Marc looks fantastic here, as well as he ever did during the early 70s. He had really pulled himself together by this time and had just put out an album which got great reviews. Makes me so sad that we lost him just when he was experiencing a comeback😔
The 1980s lost a genius this man would’ve gone down as one of the. Greatest British music icons everybody in the late 80s and early 90s would of said,we were influence by Mark Bolan
Marc Bolan was Punk before Punk Existed , its amazing hearing him talk about the Sex Pistols and the Ramones ,imagine if he had lived into the 1980s he would have been as successful in that era as Bowie was with his Ashes to Ashes thing
I don't think there would have been a second wave of T.Rextacy but I do think he would have had some more hits, although not a consistent run. The final two albums produced one Top 15 hit each (New York City #15, I Love to Boogie #13) and I think once he'd moved the Wax Company from EMI to RCA (as he was planning) he would have improved on this with a #7-#10 hit every year or two. A couple of these would have been top 5s and one time in about '84 he very nearly got another number 1 hit but it was held to #2 by some mega hit of the decade.. But these would usually have been the first single off an album and there would have been lots of #47 and #38 and #61 flops interspersed among the #8 hits. In other words, a cross between Slade's 80s career and how things were going for Marc '75-'77 - another 10-15 years of the same, basically. Oh and there would have been a second series of Marc in 1978 , featuring Siouxsie and the Banshees, the punk version of Adam and the Ants and Steve Took's Horns. Siouxsie would have sung Hong Kong Garden and her version of 20th Century Boy on her appearance.
That would only make sense if you were to regard Bolan as another David Bowie. Personally, I don't. It's difficult to give much credit to a fellow who ascribes his binocular vision to his choice of footwear!
What does David Bowie have to do with an alternative 1980s timeline in which a living Bolan followed a career path similar to that of Slade in real life during the same period? You're not making any sense there. Bolan had been a successful hit-maker and even in his final couple of years still managed to pull the rabbit out of the hat once in a while (New York City, I Love To Boogie). I propose that things would have continued like that, aided by a new record company.
McClaren was the one who slagged off anything pre-Punk. Apparently he told Lydon to shut up about liking Pink Floyd, for example. Bolan had a massive influence on Punk music. You only have to listen to Telegram Sam (Bauhaus?) to get an idea of how he and bands like The Groundhogs were the precursors. I feel lucky to live a few minutes walk up the road from Stoke Newington Common (where he grew up) as he's a bit of a hero. Sadly, hardly anybody around here knows who he is/was these days.
Yes it is sad. I am 57 and I don't want to live in world where all the great ones have been forgotten. On the other hand I got to live during music's best years, the 60s-80s. No millenials can say that.
A legend taken way too soon. Who knows what Bolan would've done had he lived longer. So underrated and influential yet never seems to get the respect he deserves.
I can guess what he would've done, because he did it in a sense. His spirit influenced SO many musicians that came after him. If rock music ever makes a comeback in the future I'm pretty sure a Bolan fan will be at the heart of it.
@@fijiarc2090 maybe not in america but in the UK they were by far the most popular band of the early 1970s especially with teenagers there's no doubt about that there 1971 album electric warrior was the biggest selling album of that year it was a smash hit album in the UK going straight to number 1 in the album charts and has multiple number 1 singles to come from it That's why I say they were the most popular band in the early 1970s for a 2 or 3 year period and unfortunately marc died way to young
It doesn't shock me that he was open to Punk, since T.Rex had the same vibe as many "proto-punks", such as Bowie, NY Dolls, etc. Only the real petty, small folks get competitive and put the new scene down, to make themselves seem bigger
Marc looks great here. He was in John's Children in the 60's who were more outrageous live than most Punk bands! It was a pity the make up was so white and pale on his TV show Marc - it made him look ill and washed up. So sad he died so young.
Marc bolan and Brian connolly were both my favourite singers of the 1970s although a true Trex fan i also liked sweet too i was a fan of theres too but Marc was a bit different to Brian in his music ❤️❤️💋💋🎶🎶🎤🎤
Yank here . I first heard Marc screech and bongo away on “ The Wizard “ on FM radio in early 70s . Back then FM was the weird one & AM mainstream . “ What the hell is that my hillbilly ears thought ? Definitely original “ Well TRex broke with Bang a Gong over here but Marc never had the mania following he did in Europe . Just a cult which I was part of . The best answer for “ why ? “ Marc Bolan and Co. were about ten to twelve years too early for the United States . “
1977 would just qualify, I guess… 1970 to 1973 would be early 70s, then 1974 to 1976 would be mid-70s, and 1977-1979, roughly speaking, would be the late 70s. Maybe it's not very late in the decade, but it's certainly towards the end. Edit: just to be clear, the gig where T.Rex headlined with The Damned as support was in 1977, so this is footage from the final few months of Mr. Bolan's life. It's comforting that he said a few words for peace.
I know he was married, I know he had a child, and I'm not criticising here, far, far, from it, but I think Marc was in the same genre as Bowie and we'll leave it at that, to me it's quite obvious...
A more polite response is that rock was not expressing the mood of the moment. Of the Boomers only Pink Floyd got it with The Wall. Marc got it but hadn't figured out how to express it. ELP, Yes, and all those were simply out of date and out of tune with the times.
Rock on American radio at the very least was excruciatingly tedious by the end of the seventies a changeup was necessary period. You clearly don't understand how diverse even real punk's tonality can be. Obviously The Clash are groovy and accessible to literally all listeners, but you fail to mention that LA punk at that time was righteous (X, Germs etc...), NY proto punk and alternative at that time was incredible, CBGB bands like Patti Smith and The Ramones.... Rock and Roll needed to die off, if you liked Bolan and Bowie, they are literally an exception in mainstream 70's rock for being highly inspirational
Opportunistic press baiting.......Marc ,.....the perennial Monaco glam merchant would be the last to embrace the totally unglamorous pimpled squatter 77 punk scene . He even got rid of Steve Took because he was too close to the Ladbroke Grove scene . Anyway , he admitted as such to his mate Steve Harley ,who questioned him about embracing these mostly "losers".....Marc retorted , "ah, you know....they but bums on the seats"..... Even the few convincing new wave acts , wanted nothing to do with the "punk" category. "Punk" was mostly Sham 69, Damned ( who were almost bubble gum punk)U.K.Subs , Cockney Rejects , and a whole bunch of "Oi" skinhead bands......
He was good Marc Bolan, but not as good as Bowie,I think Bowie was a better songwriter, and Marc,who wrote some great tracks, didn't try new things,it was all samey samey,me finks
I love Bolan, but I highly doubt that Bolan could have made "Blackstar" in the 2010s. How many rock artists born before 1950 have experimented with music past their 60s? I would say only Bowie, look at what any other artist or rock band from the 70s does today, they continue doing the same thing, Bowie is unique.
He knew it though and was figuring out his path before a tree got in the way. Lyrically he was trying to roughen things up but musically and stylistically had a ways to go. Ultimately though he was a Boomer chasing the true Gen X (the "official" demographic definition of Gen X is simply wrong).
Bolan was a stone talent, no doubt about that...but he wasn't always honest about what he was actually saying. His original stint was washed up after 1974, and he then went off to America for reasons of his own which weren't entirely musical, then returned home to Britain in 1977 where he then organised his own TV show called 'Marc' and secured every interview he could find in the media to come (with some cheek) the self-proclaimed older brother with the then-new Punk movement. He then died in an accident in his own car that same autumn. A good talent though all the same, but he could be a real pain-in-the-ass, never seeing eye-to-eye with friends & compadres who were often just trying to help and also hated Bowie, who only wanted to be friends, who Bowie saw as a fellow Rock compatriot; Bolan wouldn't have it and viewed Bowie with distrust right up until his death for what HE saw as some young buck kicking him off the top spot in 1973. If only he could've seen the talent he had at his own fingertips and left it at that, but Bolan never would.
Princess Hassim, he didn't hate David Bowie, they were close friends. Marc did slag Bowie off in the press (probably due to his own security) but they made up and were on good terms when Marc died.
Bowie brought the kid up for him. Bolan was 'yesterday's man' , along with Holder and the rest, when the 'glam' bubble burst. He's only famous now for being killed. Saved him having to do adverts on TV.
reply to Princess Hassim: 1) He actually returned to the UK in early 1975 because Gloria was pregnant and he wanted Rolan brought up in Britain (ironically, after Marc's death Rolan was brought up in America - not blaming Gloria, she went back home to where her folks would help her, most of us would do the same in her situation - but it wasn't what Marc would have have wanted for Rolan.) 2) He didn't "hate" Bowie - he was fiercely competitive towards him but there was an ultimately fraternal underlay to all this. Also by 1977 Bowie was starting to turn into the shielded-off rock aristocrat we knew in the 80s, with his People - especially Coco Schwab - all clustered around him giving off orders to all surrounding about who may and may not come within 100m. 3) 95% of the people in rock whose noses Marc put out of joint had it coming to them - especially the smug, snooty, hippy fans of the early Tyrannosaurus Rex Also see above remarks re Bowie/Coco Schwab - when Marc wanted to be an arsehole to someone, at least he had the balls to go and do it himself. 4) Punks were, all grown older, the brighter sort of kiddy T.Rex fans, the ones who'd expanded into Bowie/Roxy/NY Dolls instead of moving on to the Bay City Rollers etc. Marc was the Punk/New Romantic generation's starting point in music and so he was perfectly entitled to call himself their Godfather. This was also why most people in Punk were perfectly haopy to play along with his stance.
reply to bingola45 Slade had a whole bunch more hits in the 80s/early 90s (My Oh My, All Join Hands, Run Run Away, Radio Wall Of Sound etc etc). Bowie put a fund together for Rolan's eduication, but he didn't "bring him up" - Gloria and her family did that.
I suppose it depends on what you mean by 'hits'. Gypsy Roadhog managed to get into the lower reaches of the Top 50, but only with the help of a BBC ban. The album title sums it up: 'Whatever Happened to Slade'.
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It was nice to see Marc embracing and praising punk rock towards the end. Sadly, he didn't get to enjoy it long enough to play it on his records himself. R.I.P. Marc✌
He definitely was aware of the next wave and liked the Pistols, Ramones and the rest. He liked to rock n roll and not fight in a mosh pit. He was into feeling and looking good not screaming and fighting someone. So he got the style but he wasn’t negative.
RIP Marc Bolan
I love the fact you can still listen to his songs in 2020 he lives on in his music 🎸🎤
YES!!
Theres a little of Marc in all our hearts
Oh yes
Bolan in the 80's woulda been even more legendary. New Wave Bolan? Hell yes!
If Marc Bolan had lived the eighties might not have sucked musically.
Nah, he had already fallen out of favor with critics and audiences by the time he died. And the music of the 80's didn't suck. The Alternative music scene of the 90's was birthed in the 80's. Hip hop was on it's way to mainstream in the 80's. The seeds of Grunge were germinating in the 80's. Electronic music was slowly becoming mainstream in the 80's. Punk was still around. Avant Garde underground music was brewing in big cities all over the world. The 80's was a great decade for music. The only people that don't think so are the ones who cared only for top 40 charts and had no other outlets of obtaining music.
@@cactaceous Hmm… so the favour of critics is essential to great music? I believe to the contrary that Mr. Bolan woulda loved the 80s and been making great music in spite of the critics because he was a force of nature.. He woulda just kept on going and doing his thing. Like, he would definitely have appeared at Live Aid. He would have probably worked with Queen at some point. He was capable of reinvention in a similar way to Mr. Bowie. Someone said 'New Wave', but I can see him in L.A. making sleaze metal too with GNR or Motley Crue, that crowd… Slash's top hat, after all, Mr. Bolan wore one on the cover of The Slider… Sadly, it was not to be in this time stream...
@@FigmentSALabel mid-late 80's possibly but the early 80's were groundbreaking.
@@Kowasi "I can see him in L.A. making sleaze metal too with GNR…Slash's top hat, after all." Not forgetting that GNR covered Buick Mackane.
He was cool. R.I.P Marc The King of Glam Rock.
In the extended version of Marc's interview he say that in the future punk music would have strings in their songs, well he basically predicted the new romantics genre! Bolan was way ahead of his time he was amazing! (And very sexy 😍) and I so wish he had lived longer, he would've fit right in the with 80s!
Marc the wizard, pure rock and roll
Lovely listening to Marc’s voice
As Billy Joel stated:
Hot funk, cool punk, even if it's old junk.
It's still rock n roll to me.
Next phase, new wave, dance craze, anyways.
It's still rock n roll to me!
Marc sure looks like he did in 1970- 1972. Awesome Marc. We love you.
some solid punches from bolan here
Love his voice ❤️ 😍 so soft he was a very talented man 👨 ❤️
I was at the Rainbow gig. Marc got a lot of flak at the time but the Damned fans loved him (as they did Bowie).
Marc bolan brought something new to the table he moved with times and was loved by all of his fans he was definitely ahead of his time and when punk came along he went along with it and joined in with the new wave bands of the late 70s he showed how interesting he was what the new kids were bringing to the table and got involved with them that showed real craftmans ship to the next generation of artists that were coming along he would have been great at it when the 80s started and would have loved the new wave movement with passion pity he died so young how ironic that was when things were moving for him he was absolutely brilliant fantastic thanks Marc bolan for the music and for being my pop idol i love you always from a true Trex fan im now 63 but Marc bolan is still my pop idole to this day ❤️💋👍🎶🎤
This was n is an incredible person! His music! His character! His charm! So smart so beautiful n so comfortable in himself! Legends live 4ever! Legend!
Bolan. The only one who got it
Was waaaay ahead!
A hippy punk, in a way… I'm gonna go put on Dandy In The Underworld… the last song (was it? More or less, I guess…) on the last album he released was for the punks, 'Teen Riot Structure'.
don't know what you mean by that
Prince and Bolan both where legends
He was accused of latching on a bit in 77, but I find the critics funny.
Let's not forget that this guy had started his career solo with a £12.00 guitar, then got a guy to play bongos with him, then developed into a monster giant, he knew what he was doing, who knows what his next move was. His drive was phenomenal so he could of made it huge in the 80s, 90s. Look at his contemporaries afterwards, and it was Marc who paved the way for them....
Marc would have made some amazing 80's albums
Some bands / singers have made hugely successful comebacks ! No reason why Marc wouldn't have done so ! He was hugely talented , that often shines through !
He and T.Rex would most likely have been invited to play at the Band Aid concert in 1984 that revitalised many careers!
And don't forget John's Children and their rather punk-rock like riots back in the 60's. Marc really kinda WAS there first.
Still very hard at
times to discuss
Marc Bolan, a very gentle spirit, a true
warrior on the
edge of time❤
"Feckin 'ell. You was listenin to feckin Barry last year." Cracks me up every time.
E wuz listuning ta Alvin fekin stardust
An E Wuz listening to Wizard
Barry White.
An unstoppable SPIRIT - Marc...thank you. You went to the absolute edge of your nearly unlimited talent!!!
All the big ones noticed punk from afar, some took to it and others recoiled. Bolan toured with Damned and was among the first to embrace it. In a way he must have felt it was as stripped down as the rock he once adored as a young teen.
Still love Marc's music now. Great clip. His enthusiasm here is infectious!
Ugh, love Marc
Marc looks fantastic here, as well as he ever did during the early 70s. He had really pulled himself together by this time and had just put out an album which got great reviews. Makes me so sad that we lost him just when he was experiencing a comeback😔
By 77 he looks like he was by 71 !Amazing !!!
I agree he was looking much more healthier here and more like Bolan a la 72!
Then you must be 12 because he doesnt look a day older then 30.
He means he looks like he did in 1971.
@@rorycunningham5457sadly he never made it to 30…😢
Capt. Sensible said that Marc was a wonderful influence on them, welcoming them onto his tourbus and giving them a masterclass in the music industry
Glam rock and Punk rock were great eras in rock N roll 👍👍
Damned straight.
My favourite eras
I love the boogie!! I love Marc!! I love this music!!! Wow.
I like the intensity of his punches at 1:24
HELP why did he punch that hard
The 1980s lost a genius this man would’ve gone down as one of the. Greatest British music icons everybody in the late 80s and early 90s would of said,we were influence by
Mark Bolan
Most 80s artists DID say they were influenced by Marc Bolan! Joan Jett, Def Leppard, Motley Crue, etc...
BEST!
Marc Bolan was Punk before Punk Existed , its amazing hearing him talk about the Sex Pistols and the Ramones ,imagine if he had lived into the 1980s he would have been as successful in that era as Bowie was with his Ashes to Ashes thing
Bolan is GOD!!! 🦖🎩🎸💎⭐️😇🥰
that video must be from 77 when punk rock became popular in the UK.
that was also the year he died...
I wonder what Marc would be doing in the late 70s ? And early 80s . The prince of new romantic?
Absolutely! He would have been a great fit for the 80's.
He'd have been the next Noddy Holder...
...A 'has-been'.
I don't think there would have been a second wave of T.Rextacy but I do think he would have had some more hits, although not a consistent run. The final two albums produced one Top 15 hit each (New York City #15, I Love to Boogie #13) and I think once he'd moved the Wax Company from EMI to RCA (as he was planning) he would have improved on this with a #7-#10 hit every year or two. A couple of these would have been top 5s and one time in about '84 he very nearly got another number 1 hit but it was held to #2 by some mega hit of the decade..
But these would usually have been the first single off an album and there would have been lots of #47 and #38 and #61 flops interspersed among the #8 hits. In other words, a cross between Slade's 80s career and how things were going for Marc '75-'77 - another 10-15 years of the same, basically.
Oh and there would have been a second series of Marc in 1978 , featuring Siouxsie and the Banshees, the punk version of Adam and the Ants and Steve Took's Horns. Siouxsie would have sung Hong Kong Garden and her version of 20th Century Boy on her appearance.
That would only make sense if you were to regard Bolan as another David Bowie.
Personally, I don't. It's difficult to give much credit to a fellow who ascribes his binocular vision to his choice of footwear!
What does David Bowie have to do with an alternative 1980s timeline in which a living Bolan followed a career path similar to that of Slade in real life during the same period? You're not making any sense there.
Bolan had been a successful hit-maker and even in his final couple of years still managed to pull the rabbit out of the hat once in a while (New York City, I Love To Boogie). I propose that things would have continued like that, aided by a new record company.
Ommmggggggg I wish I could have seen that shit omfgggg 🥺🖤
McClaren was the one who slagged off anything pre-Punk. Apparently he told Lydon to shut up about liking Pink Floyd, for example.
Bolan had a massive influence on Punk music. You only have to listen to Telegram Sam (Bauhaus?) to get an idea of how he and bands like The Groundhogs were the precursors. I feel lucky to live a few minutes walk up the road from Stoke Newington Common (where he grew up) as he's a bit of a hero. Sadly, hardly anybody around here knows who he is/was these days.
Yes it is sad. I am 57 and I don't want to live in world where all the great ones have been forgotten. On the other hand I got to live during music's best years, the 60s-80s. No millenials can say that.
@Bad Lieutenant Very true. All of the rest in the genre seem like lightweights in comparison.
wow the ramones button like that... beautiful
LOVE HIM
A legend taken way too soon. Who knows what Bolan would've done had he lived longer. So underrated and influential yet never seems to get the respect he deserves.
He has just been inducted into the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame
I can guess what he would've done, because he did it in a sense. His spirit influenced SO many musicians that came after him. If rock music ever makes a comeback in the future I'm pretty sure a Bolan fan will be at the heart of it.
Cuz Bolan is in the proto camp-When its real rock and roll the punks gotta recognize!
"Rip your knickers off if you got it show it"..🎶
Was that Mark Perry talking about rock and roll records?? Great bloke he is.
Bolan was beginning to change his sound with songs like laser love. Such a shame we never saw where he was going musically
Marc Bolan was talented enough to re-invent himself post-punk like David Bowie did. Whether he would have done we’ll never know.
He started of as a mod in the early 60s .
@@markallen6543 well I never knew that. A bit early for me. I’d have been listening to Andy Pandy not the charts 😂.
Hear that punch at 1:25 ? Thats called tape compression kids.
lmao thanks
What show was this originally broadcast on?
Talk about my boy Marc you gotta fuck with me
Thats the way Bolan was headed. I think he would have been great once he got the spirit of it. I think he had it in him
I hope lady stardust is looking after Mr Bolan, he is with the star man now.
Hearing this, I immediately wanted to hear a T.Rex x Ramones collaboration. Like, if the Ramones had covered Deborah on Acid Eaters or something…
Glenn Matlock does a blinding version of Debora
Damn I just read about his life ! damn he died too young wtf he was a cool guy
From 1971 to 1973 his band t-rex were probably the most popular band in the world
Great artist unfortunately died way to young
@@ggmm6182 No they weren't...a absolutely fantastic band dont vet me wrong but not the most popular.
@@fijiarc2090 maybe not in america but in the UK they were by far the most popular band of the early 1970s especially with teenagers there's no doubt about that
there 1971 album electric warrior was the biggest selling album of that year it was a smash hit album in the UK going straight to number 1 in the album charts and has multiple number 1 singles to come from it
That's why I say they were the most popular band in the early 1970s for a 2 or 3 year period and unfortunately marc died way to young
@@ggmm6182 In the UK yes, in the world it was probably Led Zeppelin
Who are the other two people being interviewed.
The first one is Mark Perry from Alternative TV. Great underrated band. It's the creator of the Sniffing Glue punk fanzine.
Gloria Jones - she still has a lot to answer for, even after all these years!!
Yes! She's a murderer!😠😡🤬🤬🤬🤬
It doesn't shock me that he was open to Punk, since T.Rex had the same vibe as many "proto-punks", such as Bowie, NY Dolls, etc. Only the real petty, small folks get competitive and put the new scene down, to make themselves seem bigger
Marc looks great here. He was in John's Children in the 60's who were more outrageous live than most Punk bands! It was a pity the make up was so white and pale on his TV show Marc - it made him look ill and washed up. So sad he died so young.
RIP
FILMED SEPT 77
Looked like (less chubby) he was getting his act together again.....
and liked The Damned's "Stretcher Case".....somewhat prophetic that.......🚑💨💨💨
Probably the blow. LOL
@@boobzac He didn't loose weight until he got clean, Einstein. Smh...
Marc bolan and Brian connolly were both my favourite singers of the 1970s although a true Trex fan i also liked sweet too i was a fan of theres too but Marc was a bit different to Brian in his music ❤️❤️💋💋🎶🎶🎤🎤
Hold up marc you was kicking rockers heads in on Brighton beach in 1965 talking about not not fighting 😂
Yank here . I first heard Marc screech and bongo away on “ The Wizard “ on FM radio in early 70s . Back then FM was the weird one & AM mainstream . “ What the hell is that my hillbilly ears thought ? Definitely original “ Well TRex broke with Bang a Gong over here but Marc never had the mania following he did in Europe . Just a cult which I was part of . The best answer for “ why ? “ Marc Bolan and Co. were about ten to twelve years too early for the United States . “
Is that a young Kris Needs on the right about a minute in? Could be wrong
Anyone else spot a young Kris Needs ?
Debrahhh wuz ah zebrahhhhhhhh
How come this is “late seventies” when he died in 1977?
1977 would just qualify, I guess… 1970 to 1973 would be early 70s, then 1974 to 1976 would be mid-70s, and 1977-1979, roughly speaking, would be the late 70s. Maybe it's not very late in the decade, but it's certainly towards the end.
Edit: just to be clear, the gig where T.Rex headlined with The Damned as support was in 1977, so this is footage from the final few months of Mr. Bolan's life. It's comforting that he said a few words for peace.
Early Seventies - 1970 - 1973
Mid Seventies - 1974 -1976
Late Seventies - 1977 - 1979
@@D-777i that is not true.
@@051963mfIn my book that's how I classify a decade and in my opinion that's correct.
@@D-777i you made a mistake and the right thing to do is to admit it. Have a nice day.
'Thanks Marc, nice to meet you, safe journey home'.
I know he was married, I know he had a child, and I'm not criticising here, far, far, from it, but I think Marc was in the same genre as Bowie and we'll leave it at that, to me it's quite obvious...
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I still can't wrap my mind around the fact that ppl in the late 70s actually turned away from rock to punk. I hate punk, lol.
A more polite response is that rock was not expressing the mood of the moment. Of the Boomers only Pink Floyd got it with The Wall. Marc got it but hadn't figured out how to express it. ELP, Yes, and all those were simply out of date and out of tune with the times.
Rock on American radio at the very least was excruciatingly tedious by the end of the seventies a changeup was necessary period. You clearly don't understand how diverse even real punk's tonality can be. Obviously The Clash are groovy and accessible to literally all listeners, but you fail to mention that LA punk at that time was righteous (X, Germs etc...), NY proto punk and alternative at that time was incredible, CBGB bands like Patti Smith and The Ramones.... Rock and Roll needed to die off, if you liked Bolan and Bowie, they are literally an exception in mainstream 70's rock for being highly inspirational
Punk was a way of expressing the anger and despair that many people felt at the time. As mentioned above, it captured the mood of the moment.
@@steves1460 yep, after informing myself I understand now where the punk crowd came from. It is the natural cycle of revolution in music.
Opportunistic press baiting.......Marc ,.....the perennial Monaco glam merchant would be the last to embrace the totally unglamorous pimpled squatter 77 punk scene . He even got rid of Steve Took because he was too close to the Ladbroke Grove scene . Anyway , he admitted as such to his mate Steve Harley ,who questioned him about embracing these mostly "losers".....Marc retorted , "ah, you know....they but bums on the seats".....
Even the few convincing new wave acts , wanted nothing to do with the "punk" category.
"Punk" was mostly Sham 69, Damned ( who were almost bubble gum punk)U.K.Subs , Cockney Rejects , and a whole bunch of "Oi" skinhead bands......
He was good Marc Bolan, but not as good as Bowie,I think Bowie was a better songwriter, and Marc,who wrote some great tracks, didn't try new things,it was all samey samey,me finks
I love Bolan, but I highly doubt that Bolan could have made "Blackstar" in the 2010s. How many rock artists born before 1950 have experimented with music past their 60s? I would say only Bowie, look at what any other artist or rock band from the 70s does today, they continue doing the same thing, Bowie is unique.
he sucked up to it cos he was on his arse,, it was a changing of the guards,, Bolan had lost it,,
He knew it though and was figuring out his path before a tree got in the way. Lyrically he was trying to roughen things up but musically and stylistically had a ways to go. Ultimately though he was a Boomer chasing the true Gen X (the "official" demographic definition of Gen X is simply wrong).
What was Marc Bolan's last big hit?
"Tie a Yellow Mini Round an Old Oak Tree"
Bolan was a stone talent, no doubt about that...but he wasn't always honest about what he was actually saying. His original stint was washed up after 1974, and he then went off to America for reasons of his own which weren't entirely musical, then returned home to Britain in 1977 where he then organised his own TV show called 'Marc' and secured every interview he could find in the media to come (with some cheek) the self-proclaimed older brother with the then-new Punk movement. He then died in an accident in his own car that same autumn. A good talent though all the same, but he could be a real pain-in-the-ass, never seeing eye-to-eye with friends & compadres who were often just trying to help and also hated Bowie, who only wanted to be friends, who Bowie saw as a fellow Rock compatriot; Bolan wouldn't have it and viewed Bowie with distrust right up until his death for what HE saw as some young buck kicking him off the top spot in 1973. If only he could've seen the talent he had at his own fingertips and left it at that, but Bolan never would.
Princess Hassim, he didn't hate David Bowie, they were close friends. Marc did slag Bowie off in the press (probably due to his own security) but they made up and were on good terms when Marc died.
Bowie brought the kid up for him.
Bolan was 'yesterday's man' , along with Holder and the rest, when the 'glam' bubble burst.
He's only famous now for being killed. Saved him having to do adverts on TV.
reply to Princess Hassim:
1) He actually returned to the UK in early 1975 because Gloria was pregnant and he wanted Rolan brought up in Britain (ironically, after Marc's death Rolan was brought up in America - not blaming Gloria, she went back home to where her folks would help her, most of us would do the same in her situation - but it wasn't what Marc would have have wanted for Rolan.)
2) He didn't "hate" Bowie - he was fiercely competitive towards him but there was an ultimately fraternal underlay to all this. Also by 1977 Bowie was starting to turn into the shielded-off rock aristocrat we knew in the 80s, with his People - especially Coco Schwab - all clustered around him giving off orders to all surrounding about who may and may not come within 100m.
3) 95% of the people in rock whose noses Marc put out of joint had it coming to them - especially the smug, snooty, hippy fans of the early Tyrannosaurus Rex Also see above remarks re Bowie/Coco Schwab - when Marc wanted to be an arsehole to someone, at least he had the balls to go and do it himself.
4) Punks were, all grown older, the brighter sort of kiddy T.Rex fans, the ones who'd expanded into Bowie/Roxy/NY Dolls instead of moving on to the Bay City Rollers etc. Marc was the Punk/New Romantic generation's starting point in music and so he was perfectly entitled to call himself their Godfather. This was also why most people in Punk were perfectly haopy to play along with his stance.
reply to bingola45
Slade had a whole bunch more hits in the 80s/early 90s (My Oh My, All Join Hands, Run Run Away, Radio Wall Of Sound etc etc).
Bowie put a fund together for Rolan's eduication, but he didn't "bring him up" - Gloria and her family did that.
I suppose it depends on what you mean by 'hits'. Gypsy Roadhog managed to get into the lower reaches of the Top 50, but only with the help of a BBC ban.
The album title sums it up:
'Whatever Happened to Slade'.