T.REX - MARC BOLAN - ELECTRIC WARRIOR - 40th ANNIVERSARY DELUXE BOX SET - rare
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ELECTRIC WARRIOR 40TH ANNIVERSARY SUPER DELUXE EDITION
This fabulous and rare box set contains 2 CD's featuring the original album plus B-sides, 21 Previously Unreleased Demos, Promos & Out-Takes & 1 DVD region 0 featuring a total of 10 promos and performances from Top Of The Pops and Beat Club.
32-page Hardback Book written by Mark Paytress giving a detailed, well written accurate account of T.Rex’s peak year of 1971 including lots of photographs.
Fold-out Poster, Coaster & Postcards.
Mint condition.
This collector's item is getting a lot of attention and once it's gone, it's gone - either buy it now to make sure of it or put an offer in. Other copies out there are a lot more expensive than this one.
Review below :-
Better late than never, but here is the 40th anniversary deluxe box version of Electric Warrior, first released on 24 September 1971.
Inside the chunky box is a 32-page hb book full of colour reproduced T.Rex ads and reviews from 1971 with a text by Mark Paytress. There's also a wallet with a repro press release, photos, a coaster (surely no-one would want to spoil this) and a double-sided poster, one side of which is the image used for the original poster that came with the vinyl album. The music is captured on 2 CDs, one of which is the album plus 'Get It On''s B-sides and 'Hot Love' with its B-sides, making it a Best of T.Rex for 1971.
Interestingly, Bolan left 'Hot Love' (a UK no.1. for 6 weeks) off the album because he felt it was no longer representative. I think this was a good decision. To me 'Hot Love' has come to seem more and more like the end-point of the Tyrannosaurus Rex journey from 1968. Though it is nice to have it on here. The second CD has a number of alternate versions / mixes. The third disc is a 10-track DVD of performances of the EW songs. (Can it really be that there are only two T.Rex TOTP performances unwiped from 1971?). The performances of Girl and Cosmic Dancer from Wembley March 1972 may not have been in the film Born To Boogie but they are included in the multi-DVD release.
It's undoubtedly a beautiful package, a very good example of what the deluxe box-set format can provide. Anyone who remembers purchasing the vinyl LP back in 1971 will not be disappointed. And I guess it is unlikely that any of the other Bolan albums will get the same treatment.
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