"Sometimes I get a funny feeling inside me that I shan't be here very long,
and I'm not talking in terms of things like success.
It frightens me sometimes"

Marc Bolan

"It was to Marc's credit that he tried to avoid making his fans pay twice for the same song by having many of his singles and unique B-sides not appear on albums."

Tony Visconti (T.Rex Producer) www.tonyvisconti.com

"He was very good to me. I'll defend him to my death.
He was a good bloke; always treated me fairly; never any bullshit"

Steve Currie (T.Rex 1970-1976)

"He was a perfectionist and only wanted the best"

Mickey Finn (T.Rex 1969-1975)

(Source credit 'Till Dawn List' www.tilldawn.net)

"The last of the great pop stars.
Full of colour, charisma, joy, and show biz to the max."

Tony Newman ( T.Rex Drummer 1976/1977)

(Source credit 'Till Dawn List' www.tilldawn.net)

"I can tell you about the time I first met Marc Bolan, who became a very, very good friend of mine. We actually met very early on in the 60's before either of us were even a tad known.
We were just two nothing kids with huge ambitions. We both had the same manager at the time and we met each other firstly, painting the wall of our then managers office."

David Bowie

"Marc Bolan used to come on stage with just his acoustic guitar,
and this other guy played the bongos, and he would sort of sit cross-legged
and just play. And suddenly they went electric and it was an amazing thing, a complete revelation. The audience changed from being, you know, hippies to screaming girls. I was never completely wild about their stuff - did I listen to it outside of parties and dances? Probably not - but it did interest me because I was
always interested in trends. I think I was analysing it the whole time.
But what Marc Bolan did I think was he crossed over between what - in
inverted commas - "cool" people listened to and what people danced to. There
was a time when the uncoolest thing a band could do was release a single and
T. Rex made the single respectable again.

"I remember Marc Bolan sitting there cross-legged and saying 'more sound on
microphone two' or something, and I remember being really thrilled.

"And you know the way the roadies used to go on and fix up the microphones?

"I'd look at them and think 'even that would be good'. You just wanted to be
part of it. There's nothing like it, really."

Tony Blair

T Rex were very special to me because they were the first group I saw in '72. So... very passionate moment for me. I was 12 and a half I think at the time which is quite young to see somebody like that because he was quite wild in his own way.

Morrissey

"Marc Bolan was out on a limb, destined to make weird records with weird lyrics, doing something that nobody else could understand."

Captain Sensible

"When you get into music, there is always certain
artists that really captivate you. One of the first people that I ever
got into was Marc Bolan. There was a guy who I won't name, he's an American,
his father was a great friend of my father. He came across, and Ialways have this memory of dancing about in a room when we were about 11 or 12 years old. Squirting bottles of Ginger Ale over each other,listening to Jeepster. He actually eventually became an evangelical minister and currently works somewhere in Texas and I became a rock 'n' roll singer. There is something strange about that, that needs further investigation."

Fish (ex-Marillion)

"The influence of T-Rex is very profound on certain songs of The Smiths i.e. "Panic" and "Shoplifters". Morrissey was himself also mad about Bolan. When we wrote "Panic" he was obsessed with "Metal Guru" and wanted to sing in the same style. He didn't stop singing it in an attempt to modify the words of "Panic" to fit the exact rhythm of "Metal Guru". He also exhorted me to use the same guitar break so that the two songs are the same!!!"

Johnny Marr (ex-Smiths)

Marc Bolan was just right for the glam rock scene. I could see the attraction. He had a good face. The thing that really touched me was the way he always mentioned the group we had at Northwold Road Primary School whenever he was interviewed. We were both asked be on Saturday morning telly, on one of the programmes for kids, to talk about our group, which made me a bit of a cult figure for a while.

Helen Shapiro

He was a very creative man, a very beautiful man - or rather boy, I would say. He had beautiful raphaelite hair and stunning eyes...funny, generous, charismatic and incredible teeth.
I've still got the boa I wore on the show, he gave it to me. I almost gave it to my girlfriends niece, she was such a big bolan fan, but I'm glad I didn't.''

Cilla Black

'I grew up out of that British variety, music hall, pantomime era; we were all larger than life. The first one was Marc Bolan, who was a dear friend; he was completely from another planet. I do like my rock stars to be a little larger than life. I don't mind the earnest ones at all,
but I do like a bit of individuality.'

Elton John

"Take a line like 'What's it like to be a loon? I liken it to a balloon' [from Cosmic Dancer]. It's totally meaningless and yet somehow so emotional and wonderful, and in Cosmic Dancer he manages to contradict himself from one line to another and it doesn't matter at all."

Lloyd Cole

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