Line #67 Music/MarcBolan


1	[[quoteright:253:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/marc_bolan_7239.jpeg]]
2	->''"Well it's plain to see\
3	You were meant for me\
4	Yeah, I'm your toy\
5	Your 20th Century boy"''
6	-->'''T. Rex''', ''"20th Century Boy"''
7
8	'''Marc Bolan''', born Mark Feld (30 September 1947 – 16 September 1977) was a British singer-songwriter, guitarist, and poet. and one of the leading pioneers of GlamRock. Bolan was mostly known for his band T.Rex. His work was a major influence on PunkRock and AlternativeRock artists.
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10	!!Discography:
11	!!!As part of Tyrannosaurus Rex/T. Rex:
12	* 1968 - ''My People Were Fair and Had Sky in Their Hair... But Now They're Content to Wear Stars on Their Brows''
13	* 1968 - ''Prophets, Seers & Sages: The Angels of the Ages''
14	* 1969 - ''Unicorn''
15	* 1970 - ''A Beard of Stars''
16	* 1970 - ''[[SelfTitledAlbum T. Rex]]''
17	* 1971 - ''Music/ElectricWarrior''
18	* 1972 - ''The Slider''
19	* 1973 - ''Tanx''
20	* 1974 - ''Zinc Alloy and the Hidden Riders of Tomorrow''
21	* 1974 - ''Light of Love''
22	* 1975 - ''Bolan's Zip Gun''
23	* 1976 - ''Futuristic Dragon''
24	* 1977 - ''Dandy in the Underworld''
25	* 1982 - ''[[PosthumousCredit Billy Super Duper]]''
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27	!!!Solo
28	* 1974 - ''The Beginning of Doves''
29	* 1981 - ''[[PosthumousCredit You Scare Me to Death]]''
30	* 1983 - ''[[PosthumousCredit Dance in the Midnight]]''
31	* 1992 - ''[[PosthumousCredit Observations]]''
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34	!! "Well you're slim and you're weak you've got the tropes of a Hydra upon you...":
35	* AgentPeacock: Flamboyant, but also known for his simple, hard rocking riffs. Bolan always had good standing within the Punk Rock community.
36	* AlbumTitleDrop: From "Frowning Atahualpa"
37	--> "My people were fair and had sky in their hair\
38	But now they're content to wear stars on their brows."
39	* {{Anaphora}}: From "Ride a White Swan"
40	-->''"Wear a tall hat like a druid in the old days,\
41	Wear a tall hat and a tattooed gown."''
42	* ContinuityNod: From "Sound Pit":
43	--> "Metal Guru's in the loo with my glue, yeah\
44	Telegram Sam bought some land in Milan"
45	* DanceSensation: "The Woodland Bop"
46	* DeathByIrony: A man who was so afraid of dying young in a car crash that he never learned to drive died in a car crash as a passenger a couple of weeks shy of his 30th birthday.
47	* FriendlyRivalry: Had this with Music/DavidBowie for pretty much all of his career, which also included a couple of collaborations.
48	* GenreShift: Started as a hippie folk band called Tyrannosaurus Rex before switching to Glam.
49	** Moved from glam to [[GratuitousDiscoSequence an almost disco style]] for ''Zinc Alloy And The Hidden Riders Of Tomorrow'', then reverted back for his last album, ''Dandy In The Underworld''.
50	* GlamRock: Many consider him to be the TropeMaker.
51	* HeavyMithril: Many of his songs contained mystical fantasy themes.
52	* IAmTheBand: To the point that linking to T. Rex here redirects to him. Really, it's damn near impossible to picture T. Rex without Bolan.
53	* IntercourseWithYou: "Get It On (Bang a Gong)", of course, along with references to [[WordSaladLyrics "the teeth of the Hydra" and a "cloak full of eagles"]].
54	** "Buick Mackane," from ''The Slider,'' comes right out and says it:
55	--> "You're just a sexual glider."
56	* {{Irony}}: Despite writing many songs about [[CarSong cars]], Bolan never learned to drive because he was horrified of the possibility that he would die prematurely in a car accident. He died in a car accident, as the passenger, aged just 29.
57	* KubrickStare: The cover of ''Zinc Alloy''.
58	* {{Misblamed}}: Many think "Get It On" was retitled "Bang a Gong" for the US single release as the original title was considered too overtly sexual. In actually, it was retitled to avoid being confused with the Music/{{Chase}} song "Get It On".
59	* TheMovie: 1972's ''Born to Boogie''
60	* MoodWhiplash: Bolan was quite fond of inserting oddly depressing lyrics in the middle of otherwise upbeat songs
61	* TheMusical: 2011's ''20th Century Boy''
62	* NiceJewishBoy: Despite his over-the-top onstage persona, Bolan[[note]]born Mark Feld[[/note]] often described himself as one among friends
63	* NewRulesAsThePlotDemands: When Steve Peregrin Took and Bolan disagreed over the course of Tyrannosaurus Rex when harder and audience-pleasing rock was in demand, Bolan replaced him with Mickey Finn, who couldn't play percussion half as good as Took [[ScrewTheRulesImBeautiful but was pretty]] and a good foil to Bolan. Bolan went electric and [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools simplified his music]], and the rest is history.
64	* UsefulNotes/PreColumbianCivilizations: Crossed with DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: "My lovely Inca love" is mentioned in "Frowning Atahualpa."
65	* RepurposedPopSong: "20th Century Boy" was used in a Levi's commercial starring Creator/BradPitt.
66	* RhymingWithItself: From "Frowning Atahualpa"
67	-->"Sitting all alone, looking at the throne of the one I used to love\
68	Sitting all alone, looking at the stone of my lovely Inca love"
69	* RobeAndWizardHat: "Ride a White Swan"
70	--> ''Wear a tall hat like a {{druid}} in the old days''
71	--> ''Wear a tall hat and a tattooed gown''
72	* ShoutOut:
73	** Creator/{{Socrates}} is mentioned in "Chateau in Virginia Waters."
74	** The line "Meanwhile, I'm still thinking" at the end of "Get It On (Bang a Gong)" is from Music/ChuckBerry's "Little Queenie".
75	** Music/BobDylan, Music/JohnLennon and DJ Alan Freed are all mentioned in "Ballrooms of Mars."
76	** On the subject of Dylan, the {{stage name\|s}} "Bolan" is a shortening of "'''Bo'''b Dy'''lan'''".
77	*** The manga ''Manga/TwentiethCenturyBoys'' is [[TitledAfterTheSong titled after one of his songs]].
78	* ShownTheirWork: "Left Hand Luke" includes the line, "Myxomatosis is an animal's disease," which it, in fact, ''is'', specifically [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myxomatosis one that affects rabbits.]]
79	* SingleStanzaSong: "Broken Hearted Blues", among MANY examples, especially on the pre-''Electric Warrior'' albums.
80	* SomethingBlues: "Organ Blues," "Lean Woman Blues," "Broken Hearted Blues"
81	* SwanBoats: Having critical success as Tyrannosaurus Rex, but little in the way of record sales, Bolan relaunched the band as T. Rex and went electric. The "bridging number" between the two incarnations of the band, and the one that made their name as a glam-rock group, was called Ride a White Swan and evoked this trope. Indeed, given a TV pop music programme of his very own to host, Bolan shamelessly relaunched this song by appearing on stage and singing it from... a white boat shaped like a swan.
82	* TakeThat: "Shock Rock":
83	-->"If you know how to rock you don't have to shock"
84	* TwelveBarBlues: The verse structure of "Hot Love".
85	* WordSaladLyrics: Too many examples. Read the lyrics to ANY of his albums.
86	** WordSaladTitle

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