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Marc Bolan died on Sept. 16th 1977This site commemorates his life in music. These are the recordings (in release order) that were released during Marc's lifetime All items on these pages are from the UK (with several exceptions), since this is the country where Marc's vinyl was released first. PAGE 3 (Sept. 1970 >> 1971)
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(Additional information and scans supplied by the George Rab Archive)
Track[s] | Version | Label and Cover artwork |
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1st acetate picture:- 2nd acetate picture:-
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61/2 inch acetate Side 1 - Jewel | 1970 Single-sided acetate Decca | |
Side 1 - Ride A White Swan Side 2a - Jewel Recorded at Trident Studios, St. Anne's Court, Soho, London. This test pressing was made sometime between early to
mid June On June 29th 1970, Octopus Records was dissolved and Fly
Records Because of this change, the OCTO 1 catalog number
was changed to The text on both sides of this first test pressing were |
June 1970 | |
Side 1 - Ride A White Swan Side 2a - Jewel Recorded at Trident Studios, St. Anne's Court, Soho, London. This acetate was made sometime around late May or early June of 1970. Strange that the acetate is on American media. Were the
Master recordings Marc Bolan wrote everything on the labels including the
original mistake Marc gave this acetate to Whispering Bob Harris of Radio 1 and OGWT fame. Marc expected it to be released on the 28th September. It sold for £2,200 at auction on 26th January 2021
These two pictures across are from someone's
imagination. The single was |
May/June 1970 | |
This is an info sheet given out
to potential reviewers of the upcoming single, before "Jewel" was replaced by "Is It Love". |
September 1970 Fly | |
Side 1 - Ride A White Swan - 2:15 Side 2a - Is It Love - 2:36 Recorded at Trident Studios, St. Anne's Court, Soho, London. Highest UK chart position: No. 2
:NOTE:
The southern Irish edition of the single was released on the
Click HERE for labels and Click HERE for labels and Here's a 2nd version of the sleeve with a long
Lilac solid centre >>>
Lilac double centre ring edition
which has a 3rd Mother
Lilac pushout centre >>>
Lilac jukebox edition >>>
Mustard solid centre >>>
I recently found a copy that has what looks like an etched BP next to the Stamper of the mustard solid centred version.
Mustard different text alignment edition >>>
Mustard different text alignment (side 1 only) edition >>>
Mustard pushout centre >>>
Mustard jukebox >>>
Mustard solid small font >>>
Mustard pushout small font edition >>>
Here is a copy that plays Mcguiness Flint's
Here's a lilac copy with no text on side 2 >>>>
Here's my copy with no titles on side 2 and a few other missing bits >>>>
Test Pressing >>>>
Here's a copy that both labels failed to adhere to >>>>
This single came with each label on the wrong
side,
The final pictures are of the "demo" version but this is a fake | 2nd Oct. 1970 Run-out etchings: Side 2 Mustard: Side 2
Run-out etchings: Side 2
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T. Rex album Side 1:- Side 2:- Recorded at Trident Studios, St. Anne's Court, Soho, London. Highest UK chart position: No. 7 There are two versions of the cover:-
Click HERE for labels and
1. The band information is on the inside half cover just below the track details.
2. The band information is on the inside full cover at the end of the song lyrics.
Here is a test pressing of the album with an apparent faulty side 1 This faulty side 1 would give reason why the
The beautiful Roger Dean Fly labels
The 2nd edition of the Fly edition with corrected side 2 title
Here's a third (and final?) edition using a different font on side 1 (Thanks to Brian Wallis for this 3rd edition labels)
Here's the final Fly edition with different fonts on both sides
A Fly label without the fly LOL
Here's a unflawed test pressing of the Fly edition If you look closely you can see it has a different version of the runouts
The Cube version of the album from 1972
This is a test pressing of the Cube edition As you can see below, it has a different version of the runouts | 11th Dec. 1970 Fly HiFly-2 Run-out etchings: Side 2
Run-out etchings: Side 2 |
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Side 1 - Hot Love - 4:50
Recorded at Trident Studios, St. Anne's Court, Soho, London. Produced by Tony Visconti If you look very closely you will see that just above the main IBC title, Notice also the intended release date of the single 19th January 1971.
This alternate acetate has the timings of the "B" side altered. | January 1971 |
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Side 1 - Hot Love - 4:53 Side 2a - Woodland Rock - 2:25 Recorded at Trident Studios, St. Anne's Court, Soho, London. Highest UK chart position: N The first single to include Steve Currie and Bill Legend. Here is the white label test pressing, however many fakes were made :Note: Having looked at all my copies of Hot Love, I came across a copy that has
here is the solid centred version of the test pressing
Click HERE for labels and covers for the U.S.A.
Listen to King of the Mountain Cometh
:Note: 1. Mustard, solid centre,
2. Mustard, solid centre,
3. Mustard, solid centre,
4. Mustard, solid centre,
5. Mustard, pushout centre,
6. Mustard, pushout centre,
7. Mustard, pushout centre with
8. Mustard, jukebox centre with a
9. Mustard, jukebox centre with a
10. Black, solid centre, "Lupus Music" rather
14. Black, jukebox centre,
15. Black, jukebox centre, "Lupus Music"
16. Black, pushout centre, "Lupus Music"
Here's a solid centred copy with the "A" side label
Here's a pushout centred copy with the "A" side label
Here's a copy of No. 2 with both sides having misaligned labels
here is the almost ready for release mustard label test pressing
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19th Feb. 1971 Standard Lacquer Side 2
Alternate Lacquer Side 2
Mustard test pressing Side 2
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Track from the Top Pops compilation album Side 1:- Side 2:- |
very early 1971 Run-out etchings: Side 2 |
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Flyback - The Best of T.Rex compilation album Side 1:- Highest UK chart position: 21
If you look across you will see that the matrix number for this is TON-2.
Click HERE for labels and
| 26th March 1971 Not Officially
Run-out etchings: Side 2 | |
2-track reel-to-reel Track 1 - Mambo Sun Track 2 - Cosmic Dancer Two tracks which would become the first two tracks on the album "Electric Warrior", although not in this form. |
30th March 1971 Trident Studios Rough Mono Mixes |
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John's Children Extended Play Side 1a - Something In The Air - Thunderclap Newman
Here's a copy with slightly altered text alignment
Here's the pushout centred edition of the different text allignment
I believe this is a generic sleeve from Track record that the record
Here's the New Zealand edition (thanks Bobby)
This copy of the sleeve has the text more centrally aligned | 15th Oct. 1971 Run-out etchings: Side 2
Run-out etchings: Side 2
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Side 1 - Get It On - 4:25 Side 2a - There Was A Time - 1:00 Recorded at Wally Heider Studios, Los
Angeles, Trident Studios, London, Marc gave this copy to John Peel, who wasn't overly impressed by
it.
The saxophonist on the record is King Crimson’s Ian McDonald. |
April 1971 Apple Double-sided acetate | |
Side 1 - Get It On - 4:25 Side 2a - There Was A Time - 1:00 Recorded at Wally Heider Studios, Los
Angeles, Trident Studios, London, Highest UK chart position: No. 1 :-)
:Note:
Click
HERE for labels and
1. Silver Fly with Sans-serif font and push-out centre and
3. Silver Fly with Sans-serif font and solid centre and
4. Silver Fly with Sans-serif font and Jukebox centre and
5. White Fly with Script font and jukebox centre and
6. Silver Fly with Script font and jukebox centre and
7. Silver Fly with Script font and pushout centre and
8. Silver Fly with Script font and solid centre and
9. White Fly with Script font and solid centre and
10. White Fly with Script font and push-out centre
and
11. White Fly with Script font and narrower-slots push-out centre
Here's another silver pressing (same as No. 3 above) that
Here's another silver pressing that has a double-groove around
12. White Fly with Script font and solid double-ringed
Another copy similar to directly above but with
Here is a copy as No. 9 above but very misaligned label.
I absolutely knew this had to exist, and
here it is.
Here is the white label test pressing
This is a repro sleeve, its on thin paper
rather than the stiff card | 2nd July 1971 Fly BUG-10 Run-out etchings: Side 2 Standard font Side 2
Run-out etchings: Side 2
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Side 1 - Jeepster - 4:10 Side 2 - Life's A Gas - 2:23 Recorded at Trident Studios, London, Advision Studios, London,
Only 500 copies of this purple labelled single were produced, and was P.S.
Although the images on this preview single, the release single,
This snippet from Melody Maker printed on
4th September 1971 suggests a | 3rd Sept. 1971 Fly Grub-1 Special Preview Run-out etchings: Side 2 |
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Electric Warrior Extended Play Sorry no information other than it is a 10" metal |
1971 Double-sided acetate |
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Electric Warrior album Side 1:- Side 2:- Recorded at Trident Studios, London, Advision Studios, London, Highest UK chart position: No. 1 :-) :Note:
In Belgium in 1985 an album entitled "T. Rex Greatest Hits" was released
Click HERE for labels and
| 24th Sept. 1971 Run-out etchings: Side 2 Porky was the nickname Pecko-Duck was another
Photo taken by
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Run-out etchings: Side 2
Run-out etchings: Side 2
Run-out etchings: Side 2
Run-out etchings: Side 2 |
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Side 1 - Cat Stevens - Morning Has Broken Side 2 - T. Rex - Mambo Sun - 3:40 Probably a bootleg single, and the date of manufacture could be
The PU SAr and CU SAr run-out etchings are in a scrawled script and may be
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roughly 1971
Run-out etchings: Side 2 |
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Side 1a - Mungo Jerry - Lady Rose Side 2 - T. Rex - Get It On Probably a bootleg single, and the date of manufacture could be |
roughly 1971 |
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Marsha Hunt Woman Child album (Marc on backing vocals) Side 1:- Marc is rumoured (and likely) to have played guitar on the album tracks:- Interesting to note that the LP track is "Hot Rod Pappa",
| 1st October 1971 Track Record 2410101 |
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Side 1 - Jeepster - 4:10 Side 2 - Life's A Gas - 2:22 Recorded at Trident Studios, London, Advision Studios, London, Highest UK chart position: N Marc didn't want this single released as he had just agreed a deal with There are at least twelve versions of the centre label:- A solid centre that includes a white "GRUB 1A"
Click HERE for labels and
| 29th Oct. 1971 Run-out etchings: Side 2
Pye contract pressing |
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An Interview with Promo Only album Side 1:- Side 2:- As the tracks state, this was an interview with Marc Bolan conducted by Only available in promo, never on general sale |
November 1971 Reprise PRO-511 Run-out etchings: Side 2 |
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unknown title Promo Only various artists album Side 1:- Side 2:- Only available in promo, never on general sale |
December 1971 Toshiba PRP-36 |
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