Marc BolanAugust 1967
Founds Tyrannosaurus Rex after the first four-piece version breaks up following a single Electric Garden performance.
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Founds Tyrannosaurus Rex after the first four-piece version breaks up following a single Electric Garden performance.
Steve Took answers an advert in Melody Maker for the electric band that Marc Bolan was forming in response to his departure from Johns Children. Marc Bolan founds Tyrannosaurus Rex, after a solitary performance as a four-piece at the Electric Garden in Covent Garden, the group immediately break up, Bolan retains the services of percussionist Steve Peregrin Took and forms an acoustic duo
Tyrannosaurus Rex release three albums and achieve two top forty hits during the acoustic period.
Marc Bolan forms Tyrannosaurus Rex after leaving John's Children, turning toward acoustic psychedelic folk with Steve Peregrin Took.
Tyrannosaurus Rex, championed by John Peel onto the club and stage circuit and thence into the record shops, released three albums and achieved two top 40 hits. Disc jockey John Peel befriended the band and ferried them to and from gigs in his Mini. Peel later appeared on record with them, reading stories written by Bolan
John Peel champions Tyrannosaurus Rex on radio and in the underground music scene, helping the duo gain an audience.
Marc Bolan founds Tyrannosaurus Rex, after a solitary performance as a four-piece at the Electric Garden in Covent Garden, the group immediately break up, Bolan retains the services of percussionist Steve Peregrin Took and forms an acoustic duo.
Steve Took answers an advert in Melody Maker for the electric band that Marc Bolan was forming in response to his departure from John's Children.
Together with Bolan, Took formed an economy version of the old band, busking in subways on acoustic guitar and bongos
Took provided bongos, African drums, kazoo, pixiphone, and Chinese gong, Took's arrangements were instrumental in transforming Bolan's music from the straightforward rock and roll it had once been into an exotic hippy brew.
Tyrannosaurus Rex, championed by John Peel onto the club and stage circuit and thence into the record shops, released three albums and achieved two top 40 hits.
Before the first Tyrannosaurus Rex tour of America, Bolan and his management sack Took
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