Advantages: Changed the sound of music in the seventies Disadvantages: Died young so where would the music have gone if he lived?
Marc Bolan, who was the lead singer of what was possibly the first Glam Rock group around was born 30th September 1947 and died 16th September 1977. That made him almost 30 years old! Not a very long life, when you think about it. But he made the most of his life and strove for success in the music world.
Marc Bolan died in a car that crashed while his girlfriend was driving home from a night out. I am a couple of days late writing this review because ... ...mark his passing from this world because I believe he had a hand in changing the way pop music went during the ‘70’s and 80’s.
His girlfriend Gloria Jones, who had been drinking moderately during the evening, drove the car. She returned to America after she recovered from the accident and although summonsed on a charge of driving while unfit she never returned to England to face the charge. This means that a young man who had a lot to live for and ...
solamarie 18.09.2004
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Advantages: great tunes Disadvantages: dated glam rock sound
t rex were a great band at a sort of change in music. It is glam rock and it sounds well dated now and the videos I mean like old top of the pops footage looks riddiculous, The famous songs are Get it on which had a brilliant rythem which was beefed up by oasis a few years ago. the lyrics are very weak though in that particular song but quite prophetic in others like children of the revolution. There are loads of songs that everyone has heard but ...
zef 18.09.2000
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