MARC BOLAN. " DANCE IN THE MIDNIGHT " MARC ON WAX, UK 1983 LP. G/F
£
25
$
33
Favourite Auctions
To save auctions to your favourites, please login
If you don't have an account, please register
Description
Marc Bolan ?– Dance In The Midnight Label: Marc On Wax Ltd. ?– MARCL 501 Format: Vinyl, LP, Trifold Country: UK Released: 1983 Genre: Rock Style: Glam Tracklist A1 Dance In The Midnight A2 Everyday A3 Saturday Night A4 Metropolis A5 Brain Police B1 Stand By Me Written By – King/Leiber/Stoller B2 All My Love B3 Fast Blues (Easy Action) B4 Do I Love Thee B5 Down Home Lady Companies, etc. Distributed By – IDS (2) Credits Design – Siddall Harris Associates Engineer – Glenn Tommey Producer – John & Shan Bramley Written-By – Marc Bolan (tracks: A1-5, B2-5) Notes 6-page Gatefold sleeve.
Artist Biography by William Ruhlmann My People Were Fair and Had Sky in Their Hair... But Now They're Content to Wear Stars on Their Brows. Singer/songwriter/guitarist Marc Bolan was one of the major glam rock figures of the early '70s, especially in England. After releasing his debut solo single, "The Wizard," and its follow-ups, "The Third Degree" and "Hippy Gumbo," on Decca Records in the U.K. in 1965-1966, he joined the band John's Children in 1967. The same year, he and percussionist Steve Peregine Took formed Tyrannosaurus Rex, an acoustic duo. They made three albums, My People Were Fair and Had Sky in Their Hair but Now They're Content to Wear Stars on Their Brows (1968), Prophets, Seers and Sages, the Angels of the Ages (1968), and Unicorn (1969), then split, with Bolan retaining the band name and teaming up with Mickey Finn on the electric Beard of Stars (1970).
T. RexBy the end of 1970, with the name abbreviated to T. Rex, Bolan and Finn scored a U.K. hit with "Ride a White Swan," the first of ten straight Top Ten hits, and the album T. Rex. Adding bass player Steve Curry and drummer Bill Fifield, T. Rex expanded into a full-fledged rock & roll band, and scored a number one hit with "Hot Love" and another with "Get It On." (Under the title "Bang a Gong (Get It On)," the song became T. Rex's only substantial U.S. hit, making the Top Ten in 1972.) This was followed by the landmark album Electric Warrior (1971), which topped the U.K. charts and included the single "Jeepster." Then came "Telegram Sam," T. Rex's third U.K. number one. "Metal Guru" became T. Rex's fourth number one in May 1972. (During this period, with T.Rextasy hitting Britain, numerous reissues also charted.) The next new T. Rex album, The Slider, became a Top Ten hit in July 1972. T. Rex's seventh straight Top Ten single, "Children of the Revolution," peaked in the charts in September, followed by "Solid Gold Easy Action" in December. In March 1973 came "Twentieth Century Boy," the ninth T. Rex Top Ten single, and the Top Ten album Tanx. In June, "The Groover" became the band's tenth and final Top Ten single.
Zinc Alloy and the Hidden Riders of Tomorrow. In August, Bolan tested the waters for using his own name on records, issuing the non-charting "Blackjack" single credited to Marc Bolan with Big Carrot, but then he retreated to the T. Rex rubric, though the original group was fragmenting. Bolan and T. Rex's commercial and critical fortunes declined afterwards, as they released Zinc Alloy and the Hidden Riders of Tomorrow (1974), Bolan's Zip Gun (1975), Futuristic Dragon (1976), and Dandy in the Underworld (1977). Bolan died in an automobile accident in 1977, and his work has been reissued frequently in the U.K.
price rating
