Lots of T-Rex on the Billy Elliot film. Here is my favourite.

 

 

T-Rex - Chidren of The Revolution

 

T-Rex - I Love to Boogie

 

Other tracks from the film are

T-Rex - Cosmic Dancer

T-Rex - Get It On

Stephen Gately - I Believe

The Jam - Town Called Malice

Eagle-Eye Cherry -Burning Up

The Clash - London Calling

T-Rex Lyrics - Children of the Revolution

The Style Council - Shout to the Top

The Style Council - Wall Come Tumbling Down

T-Rex - Ride a White Swan

Not in the film, but T-Rex's first #1

 

T.Rex - Hot Love

never liked t rex, though 20th century boy was my fav of theirs.

Not in the film, but T-Rex's only #1

 

T.Rex - Hot Love

 

 

T Rex had 4 Number Ones

 

Hot love

Get it on

Telegram Sam

Metal guru

Absolute genius from their folky roots to their glam stomp to the washed up pop star.

 

So many good tracks but my favourites are probably

 

Get It On

20th Century Boy

Solid Gold Easy Action

Life's A Gas

Ride a White Swan

 

T Rex had 4 Number Ones

 

Hot love

Get it on

Telegram Sam

Metal guru

So they did. :whistle:

Quite liked T Rex at the time, wonder if Marc Bolan would have changed with the times if he hadn't died in 1977.

Probably would have produced some really horrible albums in the early 80s and then been rediscovered in the late 80s when T-Rex came back into vogue.

BUMP.

 

30th Anniversary of his death & another 2CD Best of out in the shops and a documentary on TV about Marc Bolan on at 9PM tonight.

 

DOCUMENTARY: Marc Bolan: The Final Word, BBC 4 at 21:00 on Friday 14th September 2007

 

Fellow glam rock star Suzi Quatro narrates a documentary which examines Marc Bolan's childhood ambitions of fame and where it led him, using previously lost TV and radio interviews, rediscovered Top of the Pops recordings, unseen concert footage and unique home movies. Includes contributions from his companion Gloria Jones, brother Harry Feld, producer Tony Visconti, Queen's Roger Taylor, Steve Harley, Zandra Rhodes and more, with Visconti also deconstructing the track Ride a White Swan.

(Stereo, Widescreen, Subtitles)

Remembering Bolan exposes T.Rex extinction

He was the founding father of glam rock, but on the 30th anniversary of his death Marc Bolan's musical mark has as good as disappeared.

Alexis Petridis Guardian online

 

This Sunday marks the 30th anniversary of Marc Bolan's death. It seems to be passing in a surprisingly subdued manner. The pick of the events on offer is either an exhibition of photographs that opens today at Redferns Gallery in London, or a new documentary to be screened tonight on BBC4, which is fast emerging as the saviour of music on telly.

 

The rest looks a bit meagre. Digital-only station BBC 6 Music is running a pretty underwhelming-sounding Marc Bolan Day, the highlight of which seems to be a chance to watch some silent Super 8 film of the singer visiting Radio Hallam in Sheffield in 1975. Despite the best efforts of the commentary - by former Radio One DJ Keith "Cardboard Shoes" Skues - to whip up some excitement about the footage, there's something weirdly depressing about watching it. By the look of things, Bolan seems to have attracted a crowd of about 30 people: by 1975, T Rextasy was a dim memory.

 

The artists who've lined up to pay tribute to him at a gig at Shepherd's Bush Empire on Saturday night are a motley bunch: I'd pay good money to hear Marc Almond doing something melodramatic to Cosmic Dancer but the other big names on the bill are Shakin' Stevens and Ray Dorset, luxuriantly sideburned former frontman of Mungo Jerry. The other TV celebration looks pretty hopeless: half an hour on ITV on Saturday, paid for by Bolan's record company Universal.

 

We live in an era of perpetual nostalgia and heritage rock. The music industry usually loves an anniversary. Perhaps the slightly half-hearted celebrations reflect a slightly equivocal attitude to Bolan's legacy. On the one hand, there's something absolutely undeniable about his greatest records (the sort of person that doesn't feel a prickle of excitement when Metal Guru kicks into life probably just doesn't like pop music much) and furthermore, he was undoubtedly an innovator. As Barney Hoskyn's book Glam! notes, virtually every one of glam rock's signature sounds was coined on Bolan's unimpeachable run of hit singles that starts with Ride a White Swan and ends with 20th Century Boy, including the fat sustain of the Les Paul guitar, compressed, mechanical-sounding drums, squealing backing vocals and the sequence of tumbling major chords that Julian Cope dubbed the 'glam descend'.

 

On the other hand, what happened after that unimpeachable run of hit singles suggests Bolan had a severely limited musical imagination: he'd used up every one of his good ideas in barely two years. Not even a T Rex nut like Morrissey can muster much enthusiasm for Dandy In The Underworld and Bolan's Zip Gun - these are no one but the barmiest adherent of the self-styled Boppin' Elf's idea of classic albums. Indeed, there's an argument that suggests that even at his peak, Bolan wasn't quite as great as he thought he was, that he had almost no sense of quality control - this is a man who could write something as sinuous and quivveringly sexy as Raw Ramp, then release it on the b-side of Hot Love, as a medley with an atrocious bit of sub-hippy whimsy called There Was A Time - that 1971's Electric Warrior contains more filler than you might expect a legendary album to have and that the Ringo Starr-directed movie Born to Boogie is about as excruciating a celluloid experience as one can have without involving Adam Sandler.

 

Or perhaps the anniversary of Bolan's death is simply the victim of changing fashions. Devendra Banhart has clearly been listening to the skewed folk-pop Bolan made before shortening Tyrannosaurus Rex's name, but, a decade after Oasis ripped off Get it On, Bolan casts virtually no shadow over current rock and pop music.

 

So what do you think? (a) Hopelessly over-rated opportunist? (B) Genius cruelly overlooked due to the vagaries of musical fashion? Or, as it used to say on exam papers, © none of the above?

Excellent documentary - and there's a brilliant concert from 1972 on BBC4 right now.

BUMP.

 

30th Anniversary of his death & another 2CD Best of out in the shops and a documentary on TV about Marc Bolan on at 9PM tonight.

 

DOCUMENTARY: Marc Bolan: The Final Word, BBC 4 at 21:00 on Friday 14th September 2007

 

Fellow glam rock star Suzi Quatro narrates a documentary which examines Marc Bolan's childhood ambitions of fame and where it led him, using previously lost TV and radio interviews, rediscovered Top of the Pops recordings, unseen concert footage and unique home movies. Includes contributions from his companion Gloria Jones, brother Harry Feld, producer Tony Visconti, Queen's Roger Taylor, Steve Harley, Zandra Rhodes and more, with Visconti also deconstructing the track Ride a White Swan.

(Stereo, Widescreen, Subtitles)

 

Thanks for the heads-up on this. Didn't know it was on! Worth seeing for all the old footage.

You guys in the U.K are so lucky. You get all the good stuff!!

 

I have a burned copy of the concert that Ringo Starr made of T-Rex with a doco that Roland Boland made.

The concert is fantastic!!

 

I'm a Bolan fan and think will all the old bands reforming and coming into vogue again, that T-Rex for sure would've jumped on the bandwagon.

Although it must be said that T-Rexstacy with some/one??? original members is still treading the boards around the U.K and Europe.

You'd be amazed at how many artists have cited Boland and T-Rex as influences.

They are icons.

IMHO - The 10 essential Marc Bolan/T.Rex tracks in chronological order:

 

T.Rex - Debora (1968 UK#34, Reissued 1972 UK#7)

 

T.Rex - Ride A White Swan (1970 UK#2)

 

T.Rex - Hot Love (1971 UK#1 TOTP Performance)

T.Rex - Get It On (1971 UK#1 TOTP Performance)

 

T.Rex - Jeepster (1971 UK#2)

 

T.Rex - Telegram Sam (1972 UK#1)

 

T.Rex - Metal Guru (1972 UK#1)

T.Rex - Children Of The Revolution (1972 UK#2)

 

T.Rex - 20th Century Boy (1973 UK#2)

 

T.Rex - The Soul Of My Suit (1977 UK#42)

 

and one more (my all time favourite Marc Bolan song) for luck......

 

T.Rex - Cosmic Dancer (1971 taken from Electric Warrior)

Think your selection is fab apart from Soul of My Suit. Would have thought either The Groover or Solid Gold Easy Action would have been better. The stuff he recorded from about 1974 on is nice but hardly essential.

Not on the album - my fave is Metal Guru as T. Rex and

 

Debora when they were Tyrannosaurus Rex - they were just a duo of Marc Bolan & Steve Took

Edited September 15, 200717 yr by Euro Music

20th Century Boy: An Appreciation Of Marc Bolan

BBC Radio 2

Saturday 15 September

2004-2100

 

 

There’d never been a pop star quite like Marc Bolan, and there’s never been another since. On the weekend of the 30th anniversary of his tragically early death at the age of 29, and in the month when he would have turned 60, Paul Sexton looks at his life, music and legacy with the help of a stellar, extensive cast list of friends, family and collaborators.

 

The programme charts Bolan’s long and sometimes painful journey from the streets of Hackney in north London, via early unsuccessful singles in his own name and with John’s Children, to the hippy-era Tyrannosaurus Rex and then to his glam-era pop idol status as frontman of T.Rex. Marc’s older brother Harry Feld, schoolfriend Richard Young (now a highly respected photographer), longtime mate and rival David Bowie and early manager Simon Napier-Bell help to illustrate the early years of a “king mod” who went to school in a hand-made suit, and who was convinced he was cut out for stardom by the age of eight.

 

Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour and Rick Wright remember the days when Bolan hung out at their office, while producer Tony Visconti talks about working on the early Tyrannosaurus Rex material and how Marc morphed into the ultimate early 1970s teen-dream glam heartthrob. Radio 2’s Bob Harris, who first met Bolan in the company of Marc’s early mentor John Peel in 1967, talks about compering the tour on which the phrase “T.Rextacy” was coined, and we hear vivid archive excerpts from his on-the-road report about the event for Radio 1’s ‘Scene and Heard’ programme of the day.

 

Also from the archive are clips from a Peel show from 1968 featuring Bolan, and a 1972 interview, by which time he was the hottest star in the UK. Noel Gallagher of Oasis talks about the classic run of T.Rex singles, how he directly ripped off one of them and why he didn’t get sued, while Bolan biographer Mark Paytress considers his contribution to pop culture.

 

The family story is further amplified by Marc’s partner Gloria Jones and their son Rolan Bolan, who talks about the tribute concert to Bolan that takes place tonight (September 15). Also taking part in the documentary are friend Bernie Taupin and modern-day PR guru Alan Edwards, whose first job as a teenager was looking after Bolan’s publicity, and there’s a rare radio appearance by fellow 1970s star Roy Wood.

 

Great selection!!

 

I must say though that my all time favourite T-Rex song was actually a B-side to Get It On called RAW RAMP.

Its a compilation of 3 different songs that goes for about 7 minutes. The actual RAW RAMP song bit is fantastic.

2 1/2 minutes of pure T-Rex!!

 

Baby I like your chest

OOOh baby I'm crazy bout your breasts

Woman...you think your champ

But girl.....you aint nothin but a Raw Ramp.... (whatever that is!!!!)