Transcript Diapositive 1 - lycee jean moulin english website

Plan
• 1) explanation of this choice .
• 2) His story, who was he ?
• 3) His group T Rex.
His Story
Marc Bolan (1947–1977), was
an English singer, songwriter
and guitarist whose hit singles,
fashion sensibilities and stage
presence with T. Rex in the
early 1970s helped cultivate the
glam rock era, though he
preferred to call his music
Cosmic Rock, and made him
one of the most recognizable
stars in British music.
• The son of a truck driver, Bolan grew up in England after the war in
Hackney, east London and then at Wimbledon. This enthusiasm for rock
and roll came from Gene Vincent and Chuck Berry at an early age. At the
age of nine, Bolan got his first guitar and joined a skiffle band shortly
after. He left school to join a modeling agency briefly. He became a
fashion model appearing in catalogs of menswear.
T Rex
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On the left Steve Peregrin Took, and Marc Bolan.
At age 17, he tried to start a career in
music, Bob Dylan was among his
influences. So, he tried his luck in
founding the group John's Children with
percussionist Steve Peregrin Took: their
style was rhythm 'n' blues.
Then in 1968, Bolan and Steve formed
the acoustic duo Tyrannosaurus Rex
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In 1969 they released their best album Unicorn but tensions quickly arose
in the duo. Bolan then separated from Took because of differences: the
latter was replaced by Mickey Finn. In 1970, Bolan changed the group’s
name and renamed it T. Rex. The composer electrified his compositions
with Finn always by his side: bassist Steve Currie and drummer Bill
Legend then joined them.
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David Bowie and Marc Bolan first met in July 1964. He was still David
Jones then, while Mark Feld had gone through one pseudonym already
and would soon acquire another. They were both prospects of the
promoter Leslie Conn, who put them to work painting an office . Born
within nine months of each other, Bolan and Bowie quickly became
friends, rummaging through discard bins on Carnaby Street for clothes,
grabbing crumbs from the great banquet that was London in the Sixties.
They wanted to be pop stars, but their various singles and albums didn’t
sell; they spent the decade off-stage, in the wings.
His dead.
On 16 September 1977, while returning from a tour with the
punk band The Damned, he died in a car accident in London.
Marc Bolan was a passenger, his girlfriend, Gloria Jones lost
control of its Mini 1275 GT and slammed into a tree. The singer
died instantly while the driver came out with a broken arm and
a broken jaw.
Marc Bolan and Gloria
Jones.