December 1971 - 65 Million Years Ago

It was in the Cretaceous period when the largest creature Tyrannosaurus, which is over fourteen metres long, ruled the earth.

A thousand Nine hundred and sixty-seven Years after the New Era, it came to be that a certain Marc Bolan remembered the prehistoric creature and, together with Steve Peregrin Took, a mini-group founded:

Tyrannosaurus Rex.

Mare Bolan, was given a Gibson guitar by his father at the age of nine. And Marc sat down and played with the instrument that was as old as himself. But Marc was not only interested in his guitar, he already started writing poetry, and at the age of fourteen he was working on his first book. It was supposed to be an autobiography, but Marc only came up to page 102. He gave up again and "stood there like a stupid boy, without plans, without a goal", as he remembers today.

Mare left school, hitchhiked for France and joined a magician there, with whom he stayed together for almost a year. In 1965 he returned to England, played bass guitar in a group and tried to do it himself with rehearsal tapes, with which he played in various societies

Bolan's first single was The Wizard', the story of his meeting

Disc found a buyer, Marc came through friends in the English TV show Ready Steady Go.

But

Nothing happened. It was not until 1967 that his second record

'Hippy Gumbo', and a little later he played the solo guitar on John's Children a job that was actually intended for Pete Townshend, but who then preferred to stay with The Who. Marc stayed with John's Children for a quarter of a year, composed the title 'Desdemona' and left. He met drummer Steve Took and founded Tyrannosaurus Rex.

Marc composed, wrote, sang and played guitar. And since Steve especially likes

Bongos, hand drum and Si-tar played, the music of the two was particularly played by Far Eastern style elements.

Embossed.

Marc and Steve played in smaller clubs or even for free in Hyde Park, and despite several long-playing records

Tyrannosaurus Rex remained quite unknown.

At the end of 1969, Steve was fed up after a not exactly overwhelming American tour and left: Mare

Had to find a new companion. But no one wanted to step in.

Almost

If Marc had sold his guitar, he met Mickey Finn just in time. Marc and Mickey immediately understood each other and started

After a few days in the solitude of the Welsh

Practising the mountain world together.

Mickey plays tabla, congas, bongos, finger zimbel, bassgi-tarre and Moroccan

Mauldrum, and again this idiosyncratic

Sound with the emphasis on

Foreign rhythms of Far East instruments and the melody mainly carried by Mare's extraordinary singing. Marc and Mickey played together for almost a year and already found

T. Rex - as the two now called themselves - with the single

'Ride A White Swan' universally recognised.

'Hot Love'.

The following T. Rex disc,

Was at number 1 in the British Top Ten two weeks after publication. Marc and Mickey had made it.

But Marc was not yet

Satisfied: the sound

T. Rex should become more dense.

Marc, who already gave the monster name of the small group Ty-rannosaurus

Microscopic

Had reduced down, now thought of an extended line-up with the short name T. Rex: drummer Bill Fyfield and bassist Steve Currie were hired. And for the third time within a

Year came a single from

T. Rex at the top of the English hit parade - "Get It On"

Was the slogan.

In the meantime, Marc Bolan has always set out to do something new. He would like to read the poems of his volume The

Children Of Rarn' and release it on an LT. Marc in an interview with Pop: "Since I have always written poems, I naturally attach particular importance to the text of a love-

因

Of. But just as in poetry the expressiveness is essentially dependent on the pronunciation and emphasis of the words, in music great importance must be attached to singing and instrumental accompaniment as the bearer of the text. Everyone knows that music can often express more than many words. And so rock music is becoming more and more

Sound painting, to an almost Dadaist sound painting

To it." For 24-year-old Marc, music is a phenomenon: "It is very important to recognise," he says, "that music is a very important medium. Music refers to our whole life, comes into contact with it again and again. I get up in the morning and put on music, move for music, love with music. And if I go to the cinema and the movie doesn't have a good musical colour, I don't like the whole movie."