Marc Bolan: Last News

Florence, looks like an advertisement for the Tuscan tourist board: miles of undulating hillside dotted with cypress trees and bell towers. Admittedly, the cicadas are drowned out by the noise and industry of the factory floor, as grinding wheels shear soles, and lethal-looking premonta machines stamp the sides of shoes to fix the sole to the upper section, but there's still a sprinkle of magic to the artistry here.This is where most of Manolo Blahnik's men's shoes have been crafted since 2017 by the firm of Fratelli Borgioli (founded by a pair of brothers in 1946).

Ozzy Osbourne’s Black Sabbath first wailed on their guitars in public — has been designated an important historic building after 15,000 people signed a petition calling for the building and surrounds to be saved from redevelopment. Birmingham, England’s scruffy second city, may not get much attention from outside the country, but the brawling industrial burg changed rock music forever in the 1970s when the likes of Led Zeppelin, Judas Priest and Ozzy & Co.

Naman Ramachandran Warner Bros.’ “The Nun II” debuted atop the U.K. and Ireland box office with £1.7 million ($2.1 million), according to numbers released by Comscore. Yash Raj Films release “Jawan,” headlined by Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan, bowed in second place with a strong £1.3 million.

NME can share an exclusive clip from the documentary AngelHeaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan & T. Rex.

READ NEXT: Kurt Cobain to John Lennon - rockstars who died tragically young and how they diedHowever, Marc's life was tragically cut short following his death - just seven years after hitting pop fame.On the 45th anniversary of Marc's death, Daily Star looks back on the life of one of the music icon.Marc Bolan became one of the children of the revolution, when he first entered the limelight in 1966, when he became a member of the band John's Children in 1966.Following minor success with the group, he formed Tyrannosaurus Rex in 1968 with fellow band member Steve Took - but it would be two more years until they hit the big time.After shortening their name to T.Rex, Marc later became a teen idol, after the band hit the charts with their 1970 single Ride A White Swan.They also landed their one and only US hit, when their iconic track Bang a Gong (Get It On) hit the charts in the states in 1971.However in the UK, their popularity continued to boom, scoring hit single after hit single with songs such as Metal Guru, Children Of The Revolution and 20th Century Boy, along with the number one album Electric Warrior by 1972.He became one the faces of the Glam Rock music movement in the early seventies, joining huge stars including David Bowie, Slade and The Sweet - to name a few.However in 1974, Marc moved to the states with his partner Gloria Jones to work as a soul producer, after proclaiming the year before: "Glam Rock is dead," according to Louder Sound.Speaking to journalist Geoff Barton in 1975, as relayed in his retrospective feature in Louder Sound, Marc said at the time about his career: "People were saying that I was done for even from the time when Debora [Tyrannosaurus Rex’s 1968 single] came out."A lot of people like

the shame takes on an added dimension. There were no cute frocks or winsome jumpers for the 1970s child: just corduroy bell-bottoms, Crimplene shirts, polyester dresses and crochet waistcoats, in various hues of orange, purple, mustard or brown. The reason every ’70s child looks slightly pained in these photos is because they were mortified about their hair.

Pete Doherty has shared some of his strongest Glastonbury memories – featuring Kate Moss, an “undercover agent” sent by Vivienne Westwood and a £16,000 cardigan once owned by T Rex legend Marc Bolan. Watch part two of our interview with Doherty above.This week’s Big Read cover story sees the likes of HAIM, Sigrid, Yungblud, Baebadoobee, Fontaines DC and more tell us about Glastonbury and what it means to them. Speaking to NME just after The Libertines stepped off stage from their opening performance on The Other Stage at Glastonbury 2022 last weekend, Doherty told us how Glasto had always had a special place in the band’s hearts.“Carl [Barat] was brought up like a babe in arms at Greenham Common with a real hippie background,” he said.

 David Bowie tried seducing her before she caught the admiring eye of his wife Angie.The former Play School presenter, 72, calimed she turned down a night of passion with the couple after they set their sights on her at their star-studded Christmas party in 1973.Baroness Floella claimed the Under Pressure singer, who was ‘at the height of his fame’ at the time, asked her: ‘Would you like to come upstairs with me? I want to offer you the world. ‘You can have anything you desire.’She adds that following the exchange, American actress, Angie, who had an open marriage with Bowie, propositioned her.Baroness Floella made the saucy revelations in her new book, What Are You Doing Here? My Autobiography, published earlier this month.She also reveals in the memoir that she has ‘joked ever since about the night I turned down David Bowie’.Floella was starring in Jesus Christ Superstar when a cast member who had worked as a backing singer of Bowie invited her to the party, which was held in Bowie and Angie’s Chelsea home that they shared with their son Duncan, now 51.Fellow guests included Sir Mick Jagger, Cat Stevens and Marc Bolan, which made Floella feel like ‘Alice in Wonderland’.She added in her book: ‘When David Bowie walked into the room, slim and charismatic, all eyes were drawn to him.

John Peel – once branded by NME as “the king of the live session” – will be sold at an auction in London next month.Before his death in 2004, Peel amassed a weighty collection spanning over 26,000 LPs, 40,000 seven-inch singles and countless CDs. A selection of those, as well as various items of memorabilia, will be auctioned off at Bonhams’ Knightsbridge location on Tuesday June 14.

Betty Mabry Davis, singer, songwriter and model. Born: 16 July, 1944 in Durham, North Carolina. Died: 9 February, 2022 in Homestead, Pennsylvania, aged 77. They Say I’m Different, Nasty Gal, Crashin’ from Passion… Betty Davis’s album titles tell it like it was.

Uptown (to Harlem), which appeared on a hit album by the Chambers Brothers in 1967. When she met Davis, introduced by Devon Wilson, Jimi Hendrix’s girlfriend, Mabry had just ended a relationship with the South African trumpeter Hugh Masekela. Davis had recently divorced his first wife, the dancer Frances Taylor.

The story behind synth-pop duo Soft Cell's breakthrough hit Tainted Love is an often forgotten one. The song was originally an obscure Northern soul track written by Ed Cobb (formerly of male vocal quartet The Four Preps), and recorded by American soul singer Gloria Jones (who would later go on to become the partner of T Rex frontman Marc Bolan). The track also appeared as the B-side to Jones’ commercially unsuccessful 1965 single, My Bad Boy’s Comin’ Home.

Naman Ramachandran Filming is underway at Liverpool and Anglesey, U.K., locations on Ian Puleston-Davies’ feature film “Bolan’s Shoes,” starring Timothy Spall (“Mr. Turner”), Leanne Best (“Line of Duty”) and Mark Lewis-Jones (“The Crown”).

Depeche Mode into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last night (November 7), calling the band “the soundtrack to my life”.The evening also saw Iggy Pop induct Nine Inch Nails into the Class of 2020, as well as a tribute to T-Rex’s Marc Bolan from Ringo Starr.“Depeche Mode is the soundtrack of my adolescence,” Theron said during her induction speech.

T-Rex frontman Marc Bolan was among the new inductees, and he was welcomed into the Hall by Beatles drummer Ringo Starr.Alongside Bolan, Nine Inch Nails were also inducted, with Iggy Pop giving a speech to welcome Trent Reznor and co, while Depeche Mode also joined the revered list.“People knew him as a great musician, a songwriter, a guitarist, but he was also a poet,” Starr said of his friend, who died in a car crash in 1977. “And he was really proud of that.“He was always telling me that he was the Number One selling poet in Britain.

Ex-Oasis guitarist Noel Gallagher took jabs at both Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran’s music in a recent interview. Gallagher, 53, claimed that musicians nowadays, including the 30-year-old Swift and 29-year-old Sheeran, is more about style rather than the substance of the records.

T-Rex musician Marc Bolan was only 29 when he was killed on September 16 1977.

Joan Jett performed a cover of T-Rex song ‘Jeepster’ on The Late Late Show With James Corden on Thursday night (September 10).Jett’s reworking of the 1971 single appears on the recently released tribute album ‘AngelHeaded Hipster: The Songs Of Marc Bolan And T-Rex’.The album also includes contributions from U2, Elton John, Nick Cave, Father John Misty and more.

Peaches has returned with her first new original song in five years, ‘Flip This’. The iconoclastic producer has also shared an apparently one-take new music video filmed in her Berlin studio.In a statement, Peaches said the new song was “about me waking myself up and getting active”.

Peaches has released a cover of T-Rex’s ‘Solid Gold, Easy Action’ – listen to it below.The track is taken from ‘AngelHeaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan’, which sees an array of artists paying tribute to the late T-Rex frontman. Those involved include U2 with Elton John, Nick Cave, Joan Jett, Father John Misty, Marc Almond and Lucinda Williams.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorJoan Jett has released her cover of T. Rex’s 1971 classic “Jeepster,” the latest track from the forthcoming tribute album “Angelheaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan and T.