(9-24-12) RIDE A WHITE DUKE...A happy B-Day ( 9/30/47) and a
sad D-Day (9/16/77) for that Rockin' elf MARC BOLAN of T-Rex, who achieved the
improbable feat of taking hobbit imagery and lyrically turning it into ROCK
N"ROLL ( Led Zep? Noooo...). While recording RAW POWER in England under BOWIE's
patronage all the STOOGES claimed that the only British band they liked was
T-Rex. IGGY was even wearing a T-Rex t-shirt in that iconic shot of the SACRED
TRIANGE ( Bowie, Iggy, & Lou...see Blooge archive "DAY 21 A.I. from 1/12).
Not that Marc didn't deserve the STOOGES adulation; far from it. But seeing how
Marc was Bowie's only rival in the Great Glam sweepstakes this seems a little
suspicious. Could it be the boys were taking a not so subtle swipe at their
foreign benefactor who they knew they needed but still resented for that very
reason?
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