T.Rex: "T.Rex Announce Rocker!" Article (1973)

T.Rex’s "T.Rex Announce Rocker!", two one-page articles in Record Mirror, February 17, 1973.

Twentieth Century Bolan!

TWENTIETH Century Boy will be the title of the new T. Rex single to be released on March 2.

The song, which was one of two from the new Tanx album to be recorded in Japan, features singers Sue and Sonny, Joe Brown's wife, Vicki, Barry St. John and saxist Howie Casey.

Says Marc: "I regard Twentieth Century Boy as our best single yet. The song has the most basic rock format since Ride A White Swan."

The flip side of the single is Free Angel, another album track, which was recorded at The Chateau in France, where the remainder of the album was cut.

More dates have been finalised for the T. Rex tour of Europe next month. On March 12 they appear at the Olympia in Paris and then go to Stockholm (15), Aarhus (17), Oslo (19), Gothen- burg (20), Copenhagen (20), Odense (22), and Brussels (24).

The date at the Paris Olympia was to have been part of T. Rex's itinerary when they last visited France in September, but the concert was cancelled as Marc Bolan wanted more time to prepare a new act for the band's American tour.