And I, in turn, embraced better make relished that the chance to talk to my schoolboy (its that word again) idol. Then came the rivalry, but their camaraderie never really diminished. To the best of Classic Rocks knowledge, Jones has never spoken publicly about the smash. It was on this site on 16th September 1977 that Marc Bolan died in a car crash, when his purple Mini crashed into a sycamore tree. BOB HARRIS OBE Marc was not cut out of the carby all accounts he was lifted from the back of the car and laid on a blanket.and attempt was made at reviving him, but that was not by the fire service.if he was alive at that point it would have been just a glimmer. His former manager, Tony Secunda, said the son of a Hackney porter whose real name was Mark Feld had always feared he would die in a car crash. The singer had transcended the underbelly of glam rock and had become a fully-fledged pop star, even helming his own television show and becoming a huge household name. Police said Bolan, 29, was killed when a car driven by his girlfriend, singer Gloria Jones, struck a tree in southwest London. The night before he had been at Mortons restaurant in Londons Berkeley Square, celebrating Gloria Joness return to the UK from California, where she had been recording an album. She was born on October 19, 1945, in Cincinnati, Ohio. Hi Russell, same as you mate, a big shock to the system hearing upon Marcs passing, I was 16 years old at the time but was a Bolan fan from aged 12. He loved life. Its astute proprietor had recognised as soon as Little Richard uttered the immortal phrase Awop-bop-aloobopawop- bam-boom that things were moving on from ballroom. They were returning to Bolan's home in Richmond after a night out in central London . But Marc never got around to doing it properly. My names Marc. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); The night I cut Marc Bolan from the wreckage of his car. I reckon hed make a good Mickey, though, as he resembles him more than Marc. He loved kids and he loved kids TV shows. He saw every little appearance on the small screen as making him more famous in Sainsburys. Clarifying certain points and dealing with police and coroner in particular, has been a very slow procedure with many legal hoops to jump through ( or find a way around). His music, as well as his highly original sense of style and extraordinary stage presence, helped create the glam rock era which made him one of the most . Neither Gloria nor Bolan were wearing a seat belt.. I didnt understand but now of course I learned that he had a form of dyslexia. Is it a girl? By the end of 1973 he was drinking a bottle a day. Together, they had a son, Rolan Bolan (b. BBC Four - Marc Bolan: Cosmic Dancer. Police at the scene of the car crash in which 29 year old pop star Marc Bolan, of the group T-Rex, was killed, on 16/09/1977. He was grounded in many respects. 1986: Kinross Miners 'killed where they stood', 1968: Post Office backs first class service. Marc Bolan with girlfriend Gloria Jones and their baby son, Rolan Bolan - born 26th September - pictured 1st October 1975. . I havent been into cars for years. Cause of death was trauma and blood loss, and there is a suggestion that a bolt from a fence post punched into his temple and that was what finished him off. He was never going to burn out, Sid and Nancy style. Its actually the fans and media that keep Marcs popularity . They helped time to pass on the long, and unsuccessful US tours. Trouvez des images et des photos d'actualits de The Bolan sur Getty Images. It did 3,000., Marc had to talk everything up. I went back home to Wales. It was November 1975 in the offices of Tony Brainsby Publicity, shortly before the release of the Futuristic Dragon album. news journalist, retired, Your email address will not be published. I would be surprised if Gloria had been stone cold sober..but she wasnt charged with any offense. There was no one there apart from me. David Bowie and Rod Stewart were in attendance, as were Steve Harley and members of The Damned. Elvis had died not long before, and I was round Marcs house when the news broke. To get there he had adopted whatever guise would advance him best - he was a mod, a Dylan imitator, and found credibility and modest success with ethereal acoustic duo Tyrannosaurus Rex. No other vehicle was involved. Jones was hospitalized for injuries. T. Rex was the flagship in glam rock. Assuming we are all on This site as fans of Marc , best we dont claw over Gloria , she has worked on a giving charity project , and she claims to be very poor when Marc passed away . Bolans long-time record producer Tony Visconti recalls the battle with Bowie: They saw each other as competition right from the start. Bolans June 1976 single, I Love To Boogie, was more of a simplistic chant than a cast-iron classic. Barnes Station. If Paul McCartney had died and John Lennon had lived, what wouldve happened then? He was lifted out of the car by Glorias brother. It was a sunny afternoon, if I remember rightly, says Captain Sensible. As our interview progressed, it took on a jumbled, disorganised, almost stream of consciousness quality. All the money accrued by T-Rex, then, legally went to Child. (in West Germany), My first record was 20 century boy,I was hooked, so sad,why dont they do a film of his life,like Freddie and Elton. Wait a minute. Not a chance. I think I got close to it when I wrote the line cloak full of eagles. Gloria Jones was driving the Mini 1275GT early yesterday morning when it crashed into a tree on Barnes Common. I can say that in absolute, total truth. The couple were on the way to Bolan's home in Richmond after a night out at a Mayfair restaurant. Bolan died on 16 September 1977, two weeks before his 30th birthday. Brendon was a Londoner and was shocked by the news. Marc. A Tale Untold is on course to be published late this year. Future Publishing Limited Quay House, The Ambury, He installed a caretaker and three years later sold it for about 70,000 without hardly ever visiting. Yes Gloria Jones was the driver and its likely she wasnt entirely sober and had alcohol & cocaine in her system, two things Bolan and his entire circle indulged in. Motown. I can understand that Gloria was probably under the influence and the car not as well maintained as it might have been. I think he would have written a film. As Mark Paytress noted in his book Bolan The Rise & Fall Of A 20th Century Superstar: When the Mini was examined after the accident, the pressure on the offside front tyre was only 16lbs, 12lbs less than it should have been; one of the rear tyres was marginally down; and two nuts on one of the front wheels were not even finger-tight. A few days after the crash fans broke into Mr Bolan's home and stole most of his possessions. She was the driver of the car, an Austin Mini, that crashed and killed Marc Bolan on 16 September 1977. Soul singer Gloria Jones, 64, is best known for two things: the original classic version of Tainted Love and being Marc Bolan's girlfriend - she was in the Mini that crashed . By Simon March 27, 2022 Advertisement Marc Bolan, best-known as the frizzy-haired leader of T. Rex, died September 16th in a car crash. Either Jones brother, or a former fireman is a practised liar; one of them is trying to be the tenant of a lifetimes lease on the publics memory, by borrowing the fame neither the annonymity of public service should bring, and doesnt; or by being, otherwise just the brother of a performer. Bolan was killed his seat swivelling through 180 degrees and ending up in the rear of the vehicle and Jones was severely injured. Never before and possibly never since, have men taken to the stage in full face make-up with lipstick and glitter, sparkling high heeled boots, feather boas and sometimes frocks. A lot of people like what I do, a lot of people dont. It was a wonderful, exciting and creative time. Very sad that he died that way. I was broken to think this was how he was after the crash. There was a rabbi reading a eulogy, and Marcs coffin was in the middle of these twin tracks, like on a railroad. . James Ellis -. On September 16, 1977, two weeks before Bolan would have turned 30, returning from a party thrown by Rod Stewart, he was killed when the purple Mini being driven by his girlfriend, American soul singer Gloria Jones (she recorded the original version of Ed Cobb's "Tainted Love") hit a chainlink fence and then a tree near Gypsy Lane in Southwest But they were such contrasting personalities. Why, even William Blake would have grooved to my lyrics, you know, Ive got a great story called Future Man Buick, which is incredible, it may be done as a movie. A pair of doors opened up like the mouth of Hades. marc was actually thrown into the backseat, and new evidence suggests that a metal spike entered his eye. Marc Bolan, the Guru Of Glitter, was killed in a car crash in 1977 just as his career was on the rise again. "He would never drive a car, he was always scared - Marc never had a driving licence, he refused to learn," he said. Seven years earlier I had become smitten by a certain single that had just been released . Re: Chris Watts interview. I know of two in collections and I have his telecaster bought from Christies , I also have a burns flyte bass he gifted and the slab body bass he bought for steve Currie to use on ride a white swan. In Britain, they bridged the stunning gap between the orgasmic excitement of concerts, and the boredom of hotel rooms that followed. Marc Bolans funeral took place on Tuesday, September 20, 1977 at Golders Green Crematorium. Bolan certainly talked a good fight. recalled Chris Watts, then a member of London Fire Brigade but for the past 21 years licensee of the Albion Inn, Bath Road, Worcester, when a call came to attend an accident on the South Circular. I saw genius', Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. All of what he says is complete nonsense. The 29-year-old former T-Rex singer was killed instantly when the car being driven by his girlfriend, Gloria Jones, left the road and hit a tree in Barnes. She was going to be charged with DD, but Richard got here out of UK, so she could be charged, hence lots of Bolan fans, blamed her for, the loss of Marc. He was deluged with a fanmail of childish scrawls. Wikipaedia is very useful . Thanks for the topic and the comments, still. Today though, interest in Bolan is thriving. Penny..would you email me pleasethanks Bari. You should never You should never meet your idols. If thats not a saying, an adage, a maxim, a motto then it damn well should be. CLEVELAND, Ohio - Marc Bolan came to Gloria Jones in a dream three days before this year's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees - including his band T. Rex - were announced in. Too beautiful to live, too young to die, he used to brag in the heady days. 1964 (pre Marc Bolan) I was 18 he was 16/17 He dabbled in some more groups, and in 1968, making a vague living by playing acoustic guitar around the clubs (and in restaurants for a free meal) he met Steven Took, and together they formed one of the classic groups of the Hippy era, Tyrannosaurus Rex. The little girls soon started to scream for the singers whose music was aimed specifically at them the Osmonds, David Cassidy. she is pure evil, and lets just say, its too bad marc didnt drive. How can one person, then, from what Im given to understand, publically lie and not be held to account ? T.Rex records worked so well because they were celebratory and a bit cheeky at the same time., But a failure to reinvent himself as successfully as Bowie cost Bolan dear. Please dont publicly call someone a racist or murderer without knowing what the hell your talking about. Marc Bolan singing his first hit, Ride a White Swan. The car then crashed into a tree where it came to a halt. The couple began their set at 3am and then slept Easter Monday off at the family homes of the clubs disc jockeys Rod Gilchrist and Paul Jennings. But theyd better get the damn hair right seen too many bad wigs when it comes to representations of Marc Bolan! Thats the problem with me, you see. So an accident, yes , was a front wheel lose on the mini , YES , if your a mechanic you would understand how dangerous and Easy to lose control , but most persons would continue to drive especially in the rain . He died aged just 29 when he and Tainted Love singer Gloria, now 71, crashed in a purple Mini just a mile from home in Barnes, South West London. 20th Century Boy would make a great title. While the music itself was standard, hard driving pop/rock, the performers clothes were something else. Marc on that night was celebrating and starting drinking after months of getting dry . Youre clearly a nasty, small-minded clown who needs someone to blame for this. Thanks for reading this. The Damned werent bona fide punks, anyway. M arc Bolan, best-known as the frizzy-haired leader of T. Rex, died September 16th in a car crash. On 16th Sept 1977, 29-year-old former T. Rex singer Marc Bolan was killed instantly when the car driven by his girlfriend, Gloria Jones, left the road and hit a tree in Barnes, London.. He was still in his seat and apparently dead. You think, what would Jimi Hendrix have done if hed lived? Marc bought me The Lord Of The Rings and said: If you want to know more about me, read this., BP Fallon was Bolans publicist at the height of his charges fame. Many T-Rex fans claimed that Rolan's mother had "killed their rock star." 2: Son of Marc Bolan (Feld) and Gloria Jones. The eulogy was beautiful, and then this funereal music started up on the organ. Its a tragic loss. I came up with something stock. I would not know if he wore seat-belt, and even though the Mini for sure was fun driving, he for sure could have owned and been traveling in a crash-safer car. The leader of . Visit our corporate site (opens in new tab). Regards to all. Im still shocked and saddened that his house was ransacked and emptied very soon after his death was broadcast. Gloria has made life hard for herself , she claimed Marc to be violent , and she appeared back in Uk. Lesley-Ann Jones captures perfectly the spirit of the time, and tells beautifully the wider story of Marc's extraordinary life. Geoff Barton is a British journalist who founded the heavy metal magazine Kerrang! Uma de suas canes mais famosas, "Tainted Love", foi regravada pelo grupo de synthpop Soft Cell e transformou-se em hit nos anos 1980, sendo regravada por diversos artistas . His taste was for the big time. Many comment on this , and growing , I did read on this site ,that Marc house was a mile away from Mortons , we its not is much further , and that persons comments on Gloria have been responded to negatively. One of the rare exceptions was Marc Bolan. Bolans mind was brimful of new projects, some completed, several half-finished but most of which never saw the light of day. He changed his name to Marc Bolan, released a flop of a record for Decca called The Wizard, and then, ever alert for a trend, joined the flower-power, LSD and mysticism cults that flowed around the Hippies of 1967. Someone here is a fantasist; a liar; or, has some private motive: possibly attention-seeking. Not sure my Dyslexia helps, what I establish as an apprentice mechanic In London in the 1970s , was profound , Racism Marc was a rocknroller, and his other passion was mythology. Oh, no. By the time Marc Bolan joined the ranks of John's Children in 1967, the British band had already established quite a reputation. Always keep a little Marc in your heart. Their small son Rolan Bolan was not in the car. I only ever interviewed him once. I also rang Chris Watts and he couldnt even tell me who his other crew members were. He had fallen a long way. Fallon invented the term T.Rextasy and was immortalised as purple-browed Beep in Telegram Sam. Or find some other hero. Marc Bolan (born Mark Feld; 1947 - 1977) was an English singer-songwriter, guitarist and poet. It never happened, but his music lives on Im a lunatic.. Sign up below to get the latest from Classic Rock, plus exclusive special offers, direct to your inbox! Bowie had been a long-time friend of Marc's. When Bolan's career faltered in the mid-Seventies, Bowie encouraged him to make a comeback. It didnt mean anything. Bolan looked coolly confident, well accustomed to the experience of The Interview. Im So sad to be morning mark after fourty five years.i have hundreds of his records I play his songs every day and most of them are especially his early songs with Steve,they all bring tears to my eyes even after all this time,I was 17 when mark left us and I still cannot live it down ,I never saw him live but I am a devoted fan of( too rex )and Ive seen them on many occasions , somehow it helps with the pain of having to live my life with out the real mark in our midst. According to research, he was 29 years old and killed in an accident. A woman, who had been driving, was standing by a vehicle that had hit a tree and crushed the passenger, said Chris. Hi Penny..Could you please make contact with me via email thanks Bari. Then theres the matter of lying to the police, the courts, and everyone else. After negotiating a humpback bridge on Queen's Ride, near Gypsy Lane, the car lost control. She recorded the original version of "Tainted Love" as a B-side in 1964 and the powerful track was instantly forgotten - if it was known. In fact she did not even learn of his death until after his funeral. yeah yeah yeah, His guitars , well actually a few are around , Eddie Cochrane became one of the first of the rock legends whose fame rests as much upon the manner of his death a car crash as upon the matter of his music. #ltjones #marcbolanINSTAGRAM: L_T_Jones Its also known that Gloria took the car into have a tyre change . Marc was killed instantly and Gloria was unconscious. . The young London pop fan, Mark Feld, first approached the glitter world of the pop star when he carried the guitar of Eddie Cochrane into a London concert hall 18 years ago. The book Marc Bolan: A Tale Untold will now be published in the New Year. Im really glad I didnt die today because I wouldnt have made the main story. When Marc died I think it was the same day as Maria Callas he got the main story, thank goodness. Theyll grow up soon and change. Sadly but thankfully rarely, ex service members will later say they attended high profile incidents just to gain attention. The Flying V came up for sale as did the one he gave to ringo star , ringo sold it , and the late Bowie has one . You can imagine he was so heady with the success of T.Rextasy. My father was a fireman at Richmond station and Chiswick and he attended the scene of marc bolans death. She did not learn of Marc's death until the day of his funeral. I think he would have stretched out into other fields. *Marc Bolan (Marc Feld), car accident in 1977. Rolan's first memories are of paying visits to his mother in the intensive care ward of the local hospital. However, those with long memories may recall the touslehaired singer making rather more public appearances in the area a decade before. The mini hit a tree in Queens Ride, Bannes and was a write-off . If, people want racism to go away, then it needs to be taken seriously, not thrown around like calling everyone who disagrees with you one. One was Malvern Winter Gardens a premier venue at the time because it also hosted the Who, the Moody Blues and the Kinks, among others and the other was Frank Freemans Dance Studio in Kidderminster. Bolan was killed immediately. It was his first real hit, and Bolans elfin face and wispily Afro hair style suddenly hit the front pages, dominated the music magazines and almost single-handedly created the teeny-bop phenomenon. The pair headed to their house in Upper Richmond Road West, East Sheen. What actually gets forgotten is how uptight a lot of strait-laced people got with Marcs behaviour, BP Fallon reflects. Back then in 1977, I was 18 and me and some of my music enthusiast friends were big fans of Marc Bolan and T. Rex. Her sole Motown effort , a lost masterstroke of the era, is a dazzling showcase for a . This is not just about one moment in the past; its about decades of deceit; decades of wasting everyones time with pathetic lies ; a former public official or the brother of a music personality either defaming their public office, or associating-by-their-relationto them another performers, (their sisters), career, in boring, maudlin tales of woe. Hed just make things up. Its a very strange feeling.. Through 1971 and 1972 I was much newer and fresher than I am now, and I hit a big peak. Required fields are marked *. Now Ive levelled out. A few heads grumbled the words sell and out, but Bolan left them for dust. The British Establishment clasped him to its grisly bosom, and he appeared in anti-litter advertisements. And then came his brainwave, he simplified the name to T.Rex, pared down the lyrics, dusted his face with . At that moment Marcs mother just shrieked: My boy! I started crying and everyone lost it.. Im talking about him as if I can see him now. I thought I might learn the details of Marc Bolans death this weekend. A racist mechanic? "When David started singing he and Marc forged a great friendship," recalls Jones today. In his brief heyday in the early Seventies, Marc Bolan was the biggest pop star since The Beatles. she has said in interviews that they had been driving for 45 minutes, but the bar was only a mile from where they lived. The 29-year-old former T-Rex singer was killed instantly when the car being driven by his girlfriend, Gloria Jones,. Dont believe a word of this Marc was not cut out of the wreckage he was lifted out by Glorias brother Richard and layd down on a blanket as he then tried hopeless cpr on marcs lifeless body. By Richard Jones. Often the men were prettier than the women. The scale of the task ahead was rammed home when, on May 3, 1976, Marc and Gloria Jones went to see David Bowie play Wembleys Empire Pool. You cant believe a word of that. I dont think Ive any idea. (Image credit: Estate Of Keith Morris/Getty Images ), Marc Bolan in 1975: "It was fashionable to use my face on the cover of everything. Before such a meeting takes place, a publican could be thought of as trying to draw-in customers to regale them with gleefully-recounted prosy retellings of his merely accidental presence one night at a miserable event, of which even the misery wasnt of his own making ; which pitifully exposes how the ravenous hunger for a little recognition is so desired by the unloved, by the floundering, anonymous millions, aware as many might be that they shall at best find nothing more than temporary, misattributed-glory, by attaching their names to those whose talents, efforts or persona, not their lazy idling dreams, earned for themselves what the limpet trys to attach itself. , Also how could Gloria be standing next to the car? But there were drugs mostly cocaine. For the next six and a half years their lives were to continue a universe apart, until late one night they crossed at a sycamore tree by a hump back bridge on the South Circular. Did I detect some slight nervousness, a little apprehension behind those lenses? A face-to-face encounter with an idol can be a deflating, sobering, even depressing experience. Is it a boy? You might have seen me on Top Of The Pops. It was absolutely brilliant. The Godfather. There was all this glass on the ground; nobody had bothered to clear it up. At the height of his fame in 1972, as his band T. Rex topped the charts with singles like Telegram Sam and Metal Guru, Bolan bought a beautiful former rectory in Herefordshire, where he planned to retreat from the hurly-burly of London, relax and write songs. Louder is part of Future plc, an international media group and leading digital publisher. Jones broke her jaw in the accident. Once the fantasist has been revealed, only then can the healing and the forgiveness begin. The scale of the task ahead was rammed home when, on May 3, 1976, Marc and Gloria Jones went to see David Bowie play Wembley's Empire Pool. This is not factually true. Members of the Fire Brigade from Richmond and Wandsworth who actually were in attendance told me that they arrived but had no part to play and there was no cutting of the vehicle . Bolan spent 67,000 on the 10- bedroomed 17th-century property and another small fortune on renovation, but never lived there. It was such a jolt that I had to find the nearest place to get a drink. Marcs brother harry , has embraced Gloria as , its Rolans Mum , I was upset to hear that when Rolan was growing up he new very little about his dad from Gloria . Gloria nearly died in the accident, and was in the hospital for several days afterwards. The Singer, song-writer poet, a guitarist was only 29. . And tights. I know exactly how you feel Susan. Last month, he was given his own television show again, featuring the punk bands who had learned so much from him. The songs, with their Tolkien-dense imagery and dream sequences, still evoke the indefatigable innocence and wonder of the Hippy days, but the transition from cult to cash was still to be made. The mini hit a tree in Queens Ride, Bawnes and was a Write-of''. Richmond, United Kingdom (GB) Marc Bolan (born Mark Feld; 1947 - 1977) was an English singer-songwriter, guitarist and poet. mosogotam 133K subscribers Subscribe 21K views 3 years ago No copyright infringement intended. He is credited by most people as the inventor of Glam Rock (certainly before Bowie!). What is also worth a mention is that that the site is on a bend with really nasty adverse camber which would not help the car to stay on the road. Mr Bolan had just completed a television series and was said to be poised to make a comeback after spending the last three years abroad as a tax exile. 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