The Edsel label just released a box set (5CDs, 6LPs, or 2LP highlight edition) of T. Rex material entitled 1972. It includes: The Slider; Live at Wembley: The Mattinee Show (with two previously unreleased mixes from The Evening Show); an expanded Born to Boogie: The Soundtrack Album; Bolan’s U.S. Radio Sessions; T. Rex Christmas Top of the Pops; non-LP B-sides, & the T. Rex Fan Club 1972 flexidisc.
So I've been re-listening to some & listening to much for the first time. Always loved Marc Bolan, who died much too young in a car crash two weeks before his 30th birthday in Barnes, London, 1977.
Here's some folk you probably all know doing their best to honor a swell lad.
Children of the Revolution (Arto Lindsay & Marc Ribot)
Telegram Sam (Rebecca Moore)
Get it On (Kramer)
Buick MacKane (Melvins)
Groove a Little (Medeski, Martin, & Wood)
Cosmic Dancer (Lo Galluccio)
Chariot Choogle (Fantomas & Mike Patton)
Ride a White Swan (Tall Dwarfs)
Rip-Off (Chris Cochrane)
Deboraarobed (Gary Lucas)
Mambo Sun (Ezster Balint)
Jeepster (Vernon Reid)
Lunacy's Back (Danny Cohen)
Life's a Gas (Elysian Fields)
Would I Be The One (Sean Lennon & Yuka Honda)
Love Charm (Cake Like)
Scenescof (Trey Spruance)
20th Century Boy (Buckethead)
Romany Soup (Lloyd Cole)
bonus track - Life’s a Gas (Shockabilly)
Marc Bolan & T. Rex - The Originals, compilation 2022.
Children of the Revolution
Telegram Sam
Get it On
Buick MacKane
Groove a Little
Cosmic Dancer
Chariot Choogle
Ride a White Swan
Rip-Off
Deboraarobed
Mambo Sun
Jeepster
Lunacy's Back
Life's a Gas
Would I Be The One
Love Charm
Scenescof
20th Century Boy
Romany Soup
Enjoy,
NØ