T-Rex musician Marc Bolan was only 29 when he was killed on September 16 1977. The guitarist died instantly when the car he was in - driven by his girlfriend Gloria Jones - flew off the road and hit a tree.
Gloria and Marc - whose son Rolan was 20-months-old at the time - had been returning to their Richmond home after a night out in London's Mayfair around 4am when their purple mini crashed.
And in the 1972 single he penned named 'Solid Gold Easy Action' in which he seemed to foreshadow his own death. The opening line of the release begins: "Life is the same and it always will be / Easy as picking foxes from a tree." Marc's choice to link a tree and speaking about life in one breath is eerily spooky when understanding how he died.
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