Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series. The music of T. Rex has often been used in films and television to evoke ...

At the outset of Ethan Silverman’s documentary “Angelheaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan & T. Rex,” Billy Idol relays an anecdote about Marc Bolan — the magnetic songwriter and frontman of the ...

With 'Electric Warrior', T. Rex began a trio of releases that inspired generations of punk, alternative, and glam rock bands.

As far as cinematic hagiographies go, Ethan Silverman’s “Angelheaded Hipster” should gratify fans of Marc Bolan (1947-77), the frizzy-haired mastermind behind a 1970s glam rock outfit, T. Rex. The ...

When veteran music producer Hal Willner passed away due to complications believed to be associated with Covid-19 on April 7, a day after his 64th birthday, the music community in New York and beyond ...

For Marc Bolan and his band T. Rex, 1972 had been the most fabulous year yet. The Slider, their seventh studio album (and third since the band’s name had been abbreviated from the original ...

Not that the music is entirely without merit. The best segment is from Nick Cave, who delivers a perfectly calibrated version of Bolan’s “Cosmic Dancer”, slowing it down and finding mystical depths in ...

Marc Bolan’s career had been in a slump before the 12th T. Rex album Dandy in the Underworld arrived on March 11, 1977 – or at least, that’s how the media presented it. Bolan himself had a different ...

This story originally aired on Sept. 24, 2021. In 1971, Joe Elliott was 12 years old, and he was going to his first rock show. The band was T. Rex, touring their latest album, Electric Warrior.