Let’s go back to the beginning of the 70’s. Glam was starting to take a hold of the musical landscape and Marc Bolan and T. Rex were at the forefront of that. The first thing I purchased was the Ride A White Swan single, as that’s all my pocket money could afford at the time. It was two and half minutes of pure joy that just waved its way into my brain. Bolan was a genius at writing a hit single, but he seems to struggle with the album format as there was always some filler on all of his albums.
This is the only thing I now own of Marc’s recordings, which I find strange knowing how much I loved his music, but that’s life I guess. The biggest song on here and maybe of his entire career is Bang A Gong ( Get It On). Yet another perfect piece of musical history that you still hear everywhere today. That guitar still draws you in after all this time. Jeepster is the other big song from this record. It’s just a simple rock n’ roll riff hidden away with percussion and a great lyric.
Happy days, and if it was eleven year-old me reviewing this then I would probably give it 100/10, but cynical aged old me can only give it a…
7/10 from the Grooveman.
