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T. Rex was a popular English band that was founded in 1967 under the name Tyrannosaurus Rex by Marc Bolan (vocals, guitar) and Steve Peregrin Took (percussion, backing vocals) in London. After the September 30, 1947 in Hackney, East -London, born Marc Bolan (born Mark Field) gave up his only lasting a few months membership at the Underground combo John's Children in the summer of 1967, he set out by newspaper advertisement to look for other musicians to form his own band. Except for the drummer Stephen Ross Porter came forward a guitarist, a bassist and yet another musician, of which, however little is known today. Porter on Bolans request (born July 28, 1949 in Eltham, South London) took, in line with the name of "Hobbits" from Lord of the Rings, the stage name Steve Peregrin Took on. too, as the group name selected Bolan the name of a being that well suited his penchant for mythology: the scientific name of the largest after damaligem knowledge terrestrial predator that has ever lived on Earth. 1970-1973 - The greatest hits The now published in October 1970 as T. Rex Single Ride White Swan was a little played by radio stations first. But the record stores reported a stable increase in demand, and so the with a distinctive guitar riff played and painted with strings song slowly climbed in the UK single charts and reached after 13 weeks in January 1971 finally its highest quotation ranked second The first album of the group which is titled simply T. Rex, released in December 1970 and reached # 7 on the album charts. In Germany the LP Ride a White Swan is, and has, unlike in the UK, instead of The Time of Love Is Now the current hit single that came in this country in the charts. In many ways the predecessor A Beard of Stars similar as future releases, the album is stylistically rather the fifth and final Tyrannosaurus Rex LP, for the first, because of the supposed name shortening T. Rex plate. For example, admissions of One Inch Rock of early Marc Bolan single The Wizard are included. Tree wizard "puretongue, the digger of holes, the swan king, the elf lord, the eater of souls,: side of the anthem The Children of Rarn of a planned concept album that never came to completion, this is also in the lyrics to Suneye significantly Lithon the black, the rider of stars, Tyrannosaurus Rex, the eater of cars ". To introduce the new songs live, the end of 1970 the bassist Steve Currie (born May 19, 1947 in Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire, England) was engaged . For the recording of the next single in early 1971, Bolan completed the band to a quartet with drummer William Fifield (born 8 May 1944 in Barking, Essex), which refers to Bolans's suggestion, and in line with his previous band name Legend, henceforth called Bill Legend. Published in February 1971, took Hot Love for six weeks, the peak position of the UK singles charts and was in Germany for seven weeks at number third for an appearance on Top of the Pops in March 1971 stuck Chelita Secunda, wife of Tony Secunda (Manager the group The Move) and current advisor of T. Rex, Bolan some glittering star under the eyes. This performance is widely considered the birth of glam rock, which, as well as artistically and commercially in the next few years dominated the popular rock and pop music in Europe in the form of a youth movement. Similar to the "Beatlemania" in the 1960s there was talk in the UK due to the great media hype, the triggered Bolan and his band of "T.Rextasy". From that date turned there the whole media attention alone to Bolan, while it was reported in Germany by "Marc & Mickey". Bolans Image was marketed comparable in his home country with the then teenage stars David Cassidy and Michael Jackson sale pregnant. The follow-up single Get It On reached No. 1, and was renamed later in the United States, Bang a Gong (Get It On) to avoid confusion with another of the same song by the group Chase, a Top Ten hit. , the first in the line of a classic rock band with electric guitar, bass and drums-established and published in the September 1971 album Electric Warrior contained with (Jeepster) another Top Hit. In addition to Mickey Finn's conga playing, which is prominently heard, particularly at Jeepster and Mambo Sun, and Tony Visconti's string arrangements such. B. at Cosmic Dancer, some songs were also with saxophone (Rip Off), Piano (Get It On) or flugelhorn (Girl) enriched. The background vocals contributed Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman, like on Planet Queen or monolith. The album is still considered a classic of the group and was also her biggest commercial success. In November 1971 Fly Records brought against Bolans will the Single Jeepster on the market. Bolan joined the British EMI, giving it his own label "T. Rex Wax Co. "made available and he also received the degree of control over future releases. However Fly secured the distribution rights of the entire existing catalog and as a result numerous compilations and reissues published earlier albums and singles, including the number-one albums Bolan Boogie and the first two Tyrannosaurus Rex LPs as a double and the EP (in Germany Single) Debora / One Inch Rock came in April 1972 in the UK at # 7. The next two top singles Telegram Sam and Metal Guru - the latter also in Germany Rank 1 - are also included on the published in the July 1972 album The Slider. Although the LP contains many ballads or slow rock track, like the title track or Spaceball Ricochet, it affects overall harder than the previous album, and as indicated by the production technology spotlighted in drums of a piece. In the USA, The Slider was the most successful album of the group, but the hoped-for breakthrough did not bring two moderately successful North American tours during the year 1972 there. At the height of success, as T. Rex sometimes even as the successor of the Beatles were considered , Ringo Starr made the film Born to Boogie on the group, which consists among other things of recordings of a concert on 18 March 1972 at the Empire Pool in Wembley and some jam sessions, where in addition to Starr and T. Rex and Elton John on piano participated. He had accompanied the group previously had at a gig to get it on the Christmas broadcast of Top of the Pops in December 1971 on the piano. One song from these sessions, Children of the Revolution was re-recorded and released in September 1972 as a single. She reached, as well as the next single Solid Gold Easy Action, 2nd place in the British charts. appeared in the spring of 1973 20th Century Boy, which is probably the most famous T. Rex song today because he used in a jeans advertising in 1991 was in Europe and was in the charts again. Moreover placebo were there with a cover version of the song in 1998 in the film Velvet Goldmine. Tanx, also published in March 1973, is the last in the line Bolan, Finn, Currie, Legend recorded album. Once again, the group and producer Visconti created a plate with the typical, compact and metallic T. Rex sound. Marc Bolan died in a car accident on the road Queen's Ride in central London on September 16, 1977, just days before his 30 . birthday, died. Driver of the Austin Mini was his then-girlfriend, singer Gloria Jones, who survived seriously injured. beginning, it was the initiator, creative director, songwriter, singer and undisputed frontman of the group. Thus his death was tantamount to the end of the project and the band T. Rex. , the co-founder of Tyrannosaurus Rex, Steve "Peregrin" Took, died on 27 October 1980 at the age of 31, when he choked on a cocktail cherry. Steve Currie was killed on 28 April 1981 in a car accident in Portugal. Mickey Finn died on 11 January 2003 at Mayday Hospital in Croydon at the age of 55 years from the effects of years of drug abuse. Peter "Dino" Dines died on 28 January 2004 at a heart attack.
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