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Marc Bolan was born in Hackney, UK, on 30th September 1947.

He started his artistic carreer writing fantasy tales. His last Record, "Electric Warrior" is named after one of his characters, in one of his early writings. It is the same for "The Children Of Rarn".

By 1968 Marc decided founding a band and join forces with one of his friends, a percussionist, Mickey Finn. Tyrannosaurus Rex was born. The duet will release five LPS, all of them simple, direct, mainly accoustic, wher the music melts with symbolic and surrealistic lyrics.

Despite their great quality, they will not chart, not until "Ride A White Swan" from their 5th LP. This one is played on the English radios and gently, slowly, climbs the charts. This inspire Bolan who stops attempting at writng movie scripts and devote himself to his musical carreer only. He shortens the band's name to T.Rex, switches to electic guitar and starts moving away from "Flower Power". He adds a bassist and writes a string of hits that raise more than popularity, a true mania such as Beatlemania, once. With "Get It On", "Jeepster" and "Telegram Sam" Marc has become a huge star and is surfing on "T.Rexmania", or should I say "Bolanmania"?