Track Listing for the Marc Shows

Show 1 24 Aug 1977
1 Sing Me A Song - Marc Bolan with T REX
2 All Around The World I've Been Looking - The Jam
3 I Love To Boogie - Marc Bolan with T REX
4 Cool Wind From The North - Stephanie
5 No Russians In Russia - Radio Stars
6 Heart Throb's Dance (You Made Me Believe In Magic/ DCR)
7 Celebrate Summer - - Marc Bolan with T REX
8 You Have What It Takes - Showaddywaddy
9 Jeepster - - Marc Bolan with TREX

Show 2, 31 Aug 1977
1 Show credits
2 Celebrate Summer - Marc Bolan with T REX
3 Hearts Throb dance (Roots Rock/ Desmond Decker)
4 If I Can Just Through Tonight - Alphalpha
5 You Made Me Believe In Magic - Bay City Rollers
6 New York City - Marc Bolan with T REX
7 Ride A White Swan - Marc Bolan with T REX
8 Just A Little Tenderness - Mud
9 People In Love - 10cc
10 Endless Sleep - Marc Bolan with T REX

Show 3, 07 Sept 1977
1 Sing Me A Song - Marc Bolan with T REX
2 Groove A Little - Marc Bolan with T REX
3 Looking After Number One - Boomtown Rats
4 You're My Baby - Jamie Wild
5 Lets Dance - Marc Bolan with T REX
6 Hearts Throbs Dance (Celebrate Summer/ Marc Bolan with TREX)
7 Get Your Love Right - Alan David
8 Quark Strangeness and Charm - Hawkwind
9 Hot Love - Marc Bolan with T REX

Show 4, 14 Sept 1977
1 Show Credits
2 New York City - Marc Bolan with T REX
3 Idolizer- Denis Conly
4 To Lane - Steve Gibbons Band
5 I Love To Boogie - Marc Bolan with T REX
6 Endless Sleep - Marc Bolan with T REX
7 Confessing - Robin Askwith
8 I Wanna Testify - Roger Taylor (Queen)
9 Dandy In The Underground - Marc Bolan with T REX

Show 5 21 Sept 1977
1 Sing Me A Song - Marc Bolan with T REX
2 Sunshine Of Your Love - Rosetta Stone
3 Heart Throbs Dance (Get On)
4 Bring Back The Love - Blue
5 Celebrate Summer - Marc Bolan with T REX
6 No Russians In Russia - Radio Stars
7 Dancing In The Moonlight - Thin Lizzy
8 Get It On - Marc Bolan with T REX

Show 6, 28 Sept 1977
1 Show Credits
2 Deborah - Marc Bolan with T REX
3 Your Generation - Generation X
4 I'm A Fighter - Lip Service
5 heart Throb's Dance - Ain't it Strange)
6 Groove A Little - Marc Bolan with T REX
7 Ride A White Swan - Marc Bolan with T REX
8 Heart Throb's Dance (I haven't Stopped Dancing Yet/ Gonzalez
9 Do Anything you Want To Do - The Rods
10 Heroes - David Bowie
11 Instrumental Jam with David Bowie and Marc Bolan & T REX

Marc Bolan & Wishbone Ash

This is What Martin Turner from Wishbone Ash wrote on his official website about the song he wrote which was inspired by Marc's tree:-

"A stirring piece of music, with lyrical references to the tree where former T-Rex leader Marc Bolan was tragically killed. "I'd drive past there a lot," recalls Martin Turner . "On this occasion I saw a sign that really hit me hard and the message written on there was "WHY DID YOU LEAVE US?" I thought it was a particularly powerful statement because at the time I was so mentally down and was becoming suicidal. I had two little daughters and that's what they would say if I wasn't here any more. I felt like the whole exercise that morning had turned me around. It's a very heavy song for me personally."

Bolan's monument!

It's the deep of night - I get up, and get out of bed,
Drive that road like I've done a thousand times before.
Don't know where I go in this still, cold, misty light;
Walk a lonely pathway, the river flows.
Message reads clear - "Why did you leave us?"
Now I know why I'm here - strange, what can heal us.
Bolan's monument, give me strength to walk on.
Now I'm face to face with my foolish soul,
There's a stagnant pool,
But he rises with grace and perfection.
Once in the garden, it's true, I may be naked,
But I've got direction.
Message reads clear - "Why did you leave us?"
Now I know why I'm here - strange, what can heal us.
Bolan's monument, give me strength to walk on

This is a link to the track:-

http://www.zshare.net/audio/68038733c77449d4/

The Children of Rarn Suite

We are the Children of Rarn
We've trodden The Vales of the Sun
The child will cry
On Swans they fly
We are the Children of Rarn


We are the Seekers of Space
We've seen Our Master's face
It's young and gold
And silvery-old
We are the Seekers of Space

Om

The Priest Of Rarn

Youth Seer
Lend me your ear
The Dworn dawn approaches
And the darkness is near

The Children in song
Brought Rarn to my head
The beeches are shaking
And the old time is dead

The scales of the sky
Are broken in song
Go to The Temple
And a-blow on your horn...

Tree Wizard, The Priest is summoning
Swan King, The Priest is summoning
Pure Tongue, The Priest is summoning
Ancient One, The Priest is summoning

Ah-Ah
da-da-da-da-da-dah
da-da-da-da-da-dah
da-da-da-da-da-dah
da-da-da-da-da-dah
Ah-Ah

Tree Wizard, The Priest is summoning
Swan King, The Priest is summoning
Pure Tongue, The Priest is summoning
Ancient One, The Priest is summoning

Ah-Ah
da-da-da-da-da-dah
da-da-da-da-da-dah
da-da-da-da-da-dah
da-da-da-da-da-dah
Ah-Ah

Bapitillicas Caste

Bapitillicas Caste
The whip lord of Dworn
Laugh in the wind
At the sound of the horn

But fools are young
And their magic is weak
If they live in the tavern
And sleep in the street

da-da-da-da-da-dah
da-da-da-da-da-dah
da-da-da-da-da-dah
da-da-da-da-da-dah

da-da-da-da-da-dah
da-da-da-da-da-dah
da-da-da-da-da-dah
da-da-da-da-da-dah

The Elders abide
'Neath the forest of fire
On the one side the furnace
the other the mire...

Of Lithonic waste
And the stagnant streams
That darken your passions
And changeth your dreams

da-da-da-da-da-dah
da-da-da-da-da-dah
da-da-da-da-da-dah
da-da-da-da-da-dah

da-da-da-da-da-dah
da-da-da-da-da-dah
da-da-da-da-da-dah
da-da-da-da-da-dah

The Trolls from the hill
Looked down from the mound
It was the morning of war
And there wasn't a sound

da-da-da-da-da-dah
da-da-da-da-da-dah
da-da-da-da-da-dah
da-da-da-da-da-dah

da-da-da-da-da-dah
da-da-da-da-da-dah
da-da-da-da-da-dah
da-da-da-da-da-dah da-ah-ah

(Agadinmar he's goes to the top of the mound and he over looks the

battle and he sings a payern to Rarn the one God and this is the song that he sings )

Beltane

Beltane
Humane
You'll come again

Beltane
Humane
You'll come again

Beltane
Humane
You'll come again

To this Earth (repeat all)

hm hm hm hm...etc


(The enemy cometh,it's a pocession of war)

We Are Dworn

We are Dworn
Devil-born
Swords of steel will deliver us
On our steeds of solid wind
Machine God Kings
We are Dworn

We are Lithons, old as Earth
We knew no death and we knew no birth
We are Lithons, the dragon breed
At noon today on flesh we'll feed

We are Trolls from Marrow Mound
We live on bones where bones are found
Underground our lairs are wide
If you want bones please come inside

We are Dworn
Devil-born
Swords of steel will deliver us
On our steeds of solid wind
Machine God Kings
We are Dworn, we are Dworn, we are Dworn

(The battle goes ill for the peacelings and bloody and torn

Agadinmar goes to future mound and sings a payarn of faith to his

God asking for change a change of the situation a change of the

times, this is the song)

Rarn Rarn

Rarn Rarn
Ah
Rarn Rarn
Ah

Rarn Rarn
We mean you no harm
From The Book of Time
I chant these lines
Rarn Rarn mmmm Rarn Rarn Ahh Rarn Rarn

Winds Of The Future

Vapours of change
Fogs are formed

da-da-da-da-da


Come O ye darkness
Darken the dawn ah

da-da-da-da-da

Winds of the future
Storms of the past
We'll meet in the meadows
Embrace at last, Oh...

(and the cords change)

Again...

Vapours of change
Fogs are formed
da-da-da-da-da

Come O ye darkness
Darken the dawn
da-da-da-da-da


Winds of the future
Storms of the past
We'll meet in the meadows
Embrace at last, Oh

(and the cords change)

(repeat all)

The Battle Of Beltane

We are Lithons
We cause death
We eat Dworns
And we hate their breath

On their wheels that turn around
We eat Dworns we bring them down

We are Trolls
We eat bones
We eat Dworns we like their toes
Their fingers if they're firm and round
There's death today on the Marrow Mound

We are Lithons
We cause death
We eat Dworns
And we hate their breath
On their wheels that turn around
We eat Dworns we bring them down

Rarn Rarn (reprise)

Rarn Rarn
Ah...
Rarn Rarn
Ah...

Rarn Rarn
(you know) We mean you no harm
From The Book of Time
I chant these lines
Rarn Rarn mmmm Rarn Rarn Ah Rarn Rarn

The Last Day Of Beltane

The cloud of fate
As the Lithon's barks
Ended their future
And gobbled their past

As the Trolls of the Mound
With their teeth blood red
Feed on the remnants
And dream of their beds

They are banished away
On a Chariot of Fate
And the Creatures of Legend
Disappeared through the gate

While The Children of Rarn
With their world all free
Prayed in the east
For what had to be

and The Priest of God
Changes the name
From Beltane to Earth
In a shower of rain

And the tribe kneel to prey
And they kneeled again
They are no longer Peacelings
They have a new name then

The last of the creatures
The animals of Rarn
Disappeared through the Gate
In the afternoon calm

And a lone Unicorn
Waited to feast
On the last day of Beltane
With The Ancient High Priest

Then old Agadinmar
Sang again from The Book
And the egg of a Lithon
He also took

and placed it high
In the heat of the sun
And as the beasts
And The Priest departed...
The Dinosaurs began...

Ah ah...

We are the Children of Rarn
We've trodden The Vales of the Sun
The child will cry
On Swans they fly
We are the Children of Rarn

We are the Seekers of Space
We've seen Our Master's face
It's young and gold
And silvery-old
We are the Seekers of Space

(repeat)

Marc Bolan & Alvin Stardust

I recently went to Potters Holiday Resort at Great Yarmouth to see Alvin Stardust. What a Bolanic surprise that man was !

We went to see him because Rick liked him when he was Shane Fenton and loves the early stuff. Like most Bolan fans, I caught up with him when he became Alvin Stardust and we all used to watch Top of the Pops.

We arrived at the resort and eagerly awaited the show. In the magnificent ballroom, the band came on stage and Alvin talked us through the early years and mentioned having met Eddie Cochran just before he died and spoke about his influences – Elvis, Carl Perkins and particularly Gene Vincent. He performed all the hits as well as some
classics. The highlight for me was My Coo Ca Choo – I was straight back to 1973. Just before he played it, he spoke of how he changed his name from Shane Fenton to Alvin Stardust and said that like everyone else at the time, including David Bowie and Marc Bolan, he wanted a piece of glam action !

After the show, we had a chance to get items signed. Rick had bought some of the early stuff and when we were getting it signed, I thanked Alvin for mentioning Marc. He told me that he and Marc had been great mates and that he’d been due to meet him on the night he died and that he’d gone to the hospital afterwards. I was really surprised, as I’d never heard this story before. He went on to say that he’d also gone to the funeral and was very upset when he saw Marc’s mother’s distress.

He told me that he and Marc used to have a laugh together and on one particular occasion they were going out and Marc was in very tight satin trousers. Alvin said “@*&* Marc, you can’t go out like that. I can see you’re Jewish from here”. Needless to say, Marc wore exactly what he wanted to.

I told that Marc had a huge, devoted fanbase all around the world and that we all stay in touch via fan club forums, Facebook and MySpace, and that we also met up at Bops. I told him I was sure that he would be very welcome at any of the events.

I also spoke to him about the Celebration at Shepherds Bush on the 30th anniversary. He said that he hadn’t known anything about it. I said that I didn’t think anyone was aware of his connection and friendship with Marc, otherwise I was sure he would have been invited to perform.

He was a really nice person to talk to, especially as he and Dave, his helper, were trying to pack all the merchandise away as they had a four hour drive to get home.

British Music Experience - 02 London

can highly recommend the British Music Experience, the new permanent exhibition in the 02, London. I made some notes on the way round and I hope the following is at least partly accurate, although it was a bit dark, there was lots to see and I’m now struggling to read my scribble, so apologies for any mistakes.



It starts off with a five minute film preview of the exhibition, where they explain how to use the Smartcard – the ticket. Each time you pass an exhibit of particular interest, you can swipe it and all the information, including pictures, gets saved to a website which you can log into later. This turns out to be fantastic, because where you would normally expect to pay £5-£10 for a souvenir brochure of an exhibition, everything you swipe is available on your personal website later, and is included in the price of your ticket (£15). Also, during this short film, they pan around the exhibition, showing you where everything is. I Love to Boogie plays, setting the mood for a great couple of hours.....



.. ..



After the film, you pass into the Interactive Studio, where there are various guitars, drum-kits and keyboards. You put on headphones and play. All around the walls are various black and white pictures, the first was Led Zeppelin, and the second was a beautiful picture of Marc.....



.. ..



1945-1962 : Trad Jazz and Skiffle. Telstar was playing, then Apache. Various exhibits from The Yardbirds, Adam Faith, Joe Brown, Marty Wilde’s drape jacket, his Antonia electric guitar (which he used on Endless Sleep) and Billy Fury’s gold lame suit.....



.. ..



1962-1966 : The Beatles and The Byrds. Ringo’s grey jacket from the suits they wore on the cover of Hard Day’s Night, a sealed packet containing “the only authentic Beatle wig” (a joke), pictures of Stuart Sutcliffe, Dusty Springfield and The Animals. One showcase contained two dresses worn by Dusty, Sandy Shaw’s Puppet on a String dress and Cilla Black’s Ready Steady Go dress. Also in this section was The Yardbirds’ drum head and pictures of The Who.....



.. ..



1966-1970: Jimi Hendrex, Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd, Cream, The Kinks, Brian Epstein. Roundabout by Yes was playing. They had the handwritten lyrics to Jethro Tull’s Locomotive Breath, John Lennon’s glasses and the jumpsuit which Mick Jagger later wore on the 1972 US tour. On the wall was a moving picture of news items from the 70s – Neil Armstrong, Monty Python, The Yardbirds (Jim McCarthy speaking about them doing the music for Blow Up). As one of the interactive parts of the exhibition, you can click on the different sections and there was lovely picture of Marc sitting with the guitar arm pointing upwards, which I enlarged on the wall briefly. There was a jukebox in this room and I played Smoke on the Water, School’s Out and Oh Well.....



.. ..



1970 – 1976: Suzi Quattro’s bass guitar and black leather jumpsuit (Can the Can playing in the background), Dave Hill’s silver cape and Superyob guitar (used on TOTP Merry Christmas Everybody), Marc’s Flying V guitar (“most notably used on TOTP Get it On”), Stars & Stripes jeans, Granny Takes a Trip jacket and white boa. The Slider album cover was above this, and the single of 20th Century boy on the T.Rex label with the cover. Security was very tight, but I managed to take a picture of this showcase (see my pictures), which also contained the red guitar and suit which Mick Tucker wore on TOTP Blockbuster. In this room, David Bowie had a showcase all to himself, mainly because he’d personally donated so many items, these included handwritten Fame lyrics and the lyrics to Five Years and the outfit he wore on the Diamond Dogs album cover and the Thin White Duke outfit. The suede fringed jacket which Roger Daltry wore at Woodstock was also here, with Jimmy Page’s appliquee jacket and snakeskin boots, Nick Mason’s drum kit with The Wall painted on it and about six pairs of Elton John’s outrageous glasses were also here. Also, Freddie Mercury’s white jacket (with strap fastenings across the chest) and trousers, which he wore on the 1986 Magic tour (the last tour Queen did with the original line up).....



.. ..



1976 – 1985: Items from the Sex Pistols, XTC and the Damned – they mentioned that the Damned were the first punk group to release a single in 1976. Also, items from the Specials and Madness. A showcase contained David Bowie’s Ashes to Ashes clown suit (the most expensive video released at that time) which was inspired by his mime teacher, Lindsay Kemp; Adam Ant’s King of the Wild Frontier suit (black with military style strap fastenings across the chest (which was originally worn by David Hemmings in Charge of the Light Brigade); Boy George’s patchwork oufit from the Colour by Numbers tour, Duran Duran’s blue silk suit and Spandau Ballet’s Schector guitar. ....



.. ..



1985 – 1993: Items from Saxon, Iron Maiden, Ozzy’s stage cape from the California Jam Festival 1974, Judas Priest, Lemmy’s boots, Joe Elliot’s Hysteria guitar, New Order, The Smiths, Happy Mondays and The Stone Roses. It was mentioned in this room that in 1988, the Rolling Stones ended years of rift and planned a world tour.....



.. ..



1993 – 2009: Items from Blur, Oasis and Pulp. The Spice Girls’ outfits – Victoria’s bustier and leather trouser, Sporty’s track suit, Gerri’s Union Jack dress, Baby’s pink boxing robe and Scary’s leopard print catsuit – with boxed dolls wearing these outfits. Also, Amy Winehouse’s vintage dress, Duffy’s blue and white jacket, the Union Jack suit Annie Lennox wore to the Brit Awards and the red ballet shoes which featured in the Kate Bush ballet video, The Line, the Cross and the Curve.....



.. ..



In the gift shop was an original painting of the Electric Warrior album cover by Spud Murphy and Aubrey Powell– unframed price was £595. There were also various books, nothing on Marc, but some reprinted annuals, i.e. Cum on Feel the Noise. There was the book Landmarks of London and on page 39, there was a picture of the market stall in Rupert Street which Marc worked on for his Mum. ....



.. ..



Within the exhibititon was a dance studio, where you can follow a video and chose from The Twist, Ska, Line-Dancing etc. etc. and this gets filmed and you can see it on the internet later from your swiped ticket.....



.. ..



As you walk from room to room, videos are playing on the walls, and finally, there’s a room showing possible music of the future.....



.. ..



All this took 2 ½ hours, then it’s all available to view again at home – great!....

You Made My Life So Beautiful (poem)

You made my life so beautiful
With every line from every song
Your face, your words, your lovely smile
You really were a man of style
Your music, songs and words all stay
Within my heart every single day
And though you’re gone, it’s sad but true
There is no getting over you
Your music plays within my head
Which means that you cannot be dead
And in my mind I play your songs
So you, my Wizard, still live on

June Bolan

I met June with Mickey at the Seventh Heaven nightclub in Doncaster at the Christmas Bop (approx 1988) arranged for fans by the Official Marc Bolan Fan Club. When I first saw June, she was walking down the corridor and I saw her from behind. I remember looking at her legs and thinking "these are the legs Marc wrote about in Thunderwing - 'when I saw the legs that I love' " and it was a really powerful moment. I remember a few of us standing with her at the bar and she said "it's strange seeing all these people who look like Marc" and I think it was a bit overwhelming for her. Another girl came and joined us and told June how much she loved Marc. June said "so did I - very much" and it was quite a sober moment. I found it incredible to be so near June and unfortnately so many people felt the same and she found the flash photography overwhelming. In fact, when I took a picture of her and Mickey signing autographs, she said something like "oh no, not again" and I had to back off a bit. It was wonderful to meet her, as she was so important to Marc and had inspired some of his great music, and he called her "the incredible June Child on the cover of Prophets, Seers and Sages. Lovely lady, and so sad that she has died as well.