It’s spring 1972 and Marc Bolan, the rest of T.Rex and producer Tony Visconti – who tells this story – are in a limo travelling from Orly airport to the 18th-century Château d’Hérouville (recently ...

Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series. The music of T. Rex has often been used in films and television to evoke ...

For Marc Bolan and his band T. Rex, 1972 had been the most fabulous year yet. The Slider, their seventh studio album (and third since the band’s name had been abbreviated from the original ...

The AngelHeaded Hipster album was the final project of acclaimed late music Hal Willner. Willner assembled an impressive cast of music artists to record new renditions of songs by Bolan and his famous ...

Not that the music is entirely without merit. The best segment is from Nick Cave, who delivers a perfectly calibrated version of Bolan’s “Cosmic Dancer”, slowing it down and finding mystical depths in ...

'Angelheaded Hipster' does a deep dive into the private life, career and artistry of Bolan, including his complicated relationship with his glam rock peer Bowie The new documentary Angelheaded Hipster ...