T.Rex: Tanx and Zinc Alloy 2014 Deluxe Edition Although Marc Bolan failed to make the same commercial impact in the USA, as he did in the rest of the world, he clearly loved the place. Having long had an almost scholarly interest in vintage Rock’n’Roll and it’s Delta Blues antecedents; he fell under the spell …Read More
Music review of Blues Pills’ debut album Marijke Koger-Dunham’s cover design for Blues Pills It must be around thirty years since I last purchased a newly released album, filed under the Heavy Metal section in HMV. Sure, I have replaced my old Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath recordings with the shiny new re-mastered …Read More
I am reviewing these two albums now because I have noticed that they have both recently dropped in price: this re-mastered version of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars can be found for just £7.26: while the similar version of Aladdin Sane (released just last year) is a little higher at £10.26. Purchased together, …Read More
A Beard of Stars and T.Rex The last Tyrannosaurus Rex Album – A Beard of Stars – and the first, eponymously named, album of the newly abbreviated T.Rex are very much a pair. Stylistically similar they both feature Marc Bolan and Mickey Finn as a duo; Bolan’s previous musical collaborator, Steve Peregrin Took, having departed …Read More