T.REX
RECORDS
T.
Rex Records was a DIY label. It was Marc Bolan's own label,
devoted to his music. T. Rex Records was founded by Bolan so that he could have
complete artistic control over his own product; apparently there had been
arguments with Fly, his previous company, over what should be released. It
operated from 1972-78, and was distributed by EMI. An initial T-REX-100
numbering series was replaced by a MARC-0 one after only one issue; the label's
design appears to have been tweaked slightly at the time of the
changeover. The third single had a white label with red printing, but the
usual colours were red on dark blue. There was an alteration in the
perimeter text at the start of 1974, starting with MARC-10: in line with other
labels in the EMI group the reference to 'The Gramophone Co.' at 8 o'clock was
changed to refer to 'EMI Records', and at the same time the 'Made in Great
Britain' at the bottom migrated to 5 o'clock. Other than that, the basic
design remained unchanged. Demos were in the standard EMI style of the
time, with a moderately discreet 'A' and the legend 'Demonstration record - not
for sale' overprinted on issue labels. The label was revived in 1982 for a
short series of EPs, numbers picking up where they had left off, at MARC-20; a
variant of the red-on-white label was used for these releases. Distributed
By EMI Records. T. Rex were an English glam rock band, formed in 1967 by
singer-songwriter and guitarist Marc Bolan. The band initially called
Tyrannosaurus Rex, released four folk albums under this banner. In 1970, Bolan
began to make a shift from basing his band's sound around an acoustic guitar to
basing it around an electric one and shortened their name to T. Rex. "Ride a
White Swan" coincided with this change and instantly became a commercial
success. From 1970 until 1973, T. Rex encountered in the UK a popularity unseen
since the demise of the Beatles, with a run of 11 singles ranked in the UK top
ten. 1971's Electric Warrior received sustained critical acclaim as a pioneering
album of glam rock. It reached the number 1 position in the UK. The follow-up,
1972's The Slider, allowed the band to enter in the top 5 in the US. At the end
of 1973, T. Rex started to have less commercial success but kept on recording
one album per year. Marc Bolan and his girlfriend Gloria Jones spent the evening
of 15 September 1977 drinking at the Speakeasy and then dining at Morton's club
on Berkeley Square, in Mayfair, Central London. While driving home early in the
morning of 16 September, Jones crashed Bolan's purple Mini 1275GT into a tree
(now the site of Bolan's Rock Shrine), after failing to negotiate a small
humpback bridge near Gipsy Lane on Queens Ride, Barnes, southwest London, a few
miles from his home at 142 Upper Richmond Road West in East Sheen. While Jones
was severely injured, Bolan was killed in the crash, two weeks before his 30th
birthday. Bolan's death ended the band. Steve Peregrin Took died from
asphyxiation from a cocktail cherry after his throat was numbed from his use of
morphine and magic mushrooms in 1980, Steve Currie also died in a car crash, in
1981; Mickey Finn succumbed to illness in 2003. Peter 'Dino' Dines died of a
heart attack in 2004.Thanks to Robert Lyons For The Info.
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T.
Rex |
Telegram Sam |
T. REX |
T. REX |
101 |
| 72 |
T.
Rex |
Metal Guru |
T.REX |
MARC |
1 |
| 72 |
T. Rex |
Children Of The Revolution |
T.REX |
MARC |
2 |
| 72 |
T. Rex |
Solid Gold Easy Action |
T.REX |
MARC |
3 |
| 73 |
T. Rex |
20th Century Boy |
T.REX |
MARC |
4 |
| 73 |
T. Rex |
The Groover |
T.REX |
MARC |
5 |
| 73 |
T. Rex |
Truck On (Tyke) |
T.REX |
MARC |
6 |
| 74 |
Marc
Bolan and T. Rex |
Teenage Dream |
T.REX |
MARC |
7 |
| 74 |
T. Rex |
Light Of Love |
T.REX |
MARC |
8 |
| 74 |
Marc Bolan |
Zip Gun Boogie |
T.REX |
MARC |
9 |
| 75 |
T. Rex |
New York City |
T.REX |
MARC |
10 |
| 75 |
T. Rex |
Dreamy Lady |
T.REX |
MARC |
11 |
| 75 |
T. Rex |
Christmas Bop |
T.REX |
MARC |
12 |
| 76 |
T. Rex |
London Boys |
T.REX |
MARC |
13 |
| 76 |
T. Rex |
I Love To Boogie |
T.REX |
MARC |
14 |
| 76 |
T. Rex |
Laser Love |
T.REX |
MARC |
15 |
| 77 |
T. Rex |
The Soul Of My Suit |
T.REX |
MARC |
16 |
| 77 |
T. Rex |
Dandy In The Underworld |
T.REX |
MARC |
17 |
| 78 |
T. Rex |
Celebrate Summer |
T.REX |
MARC |
18 |
| 78 |
T. Rex |
Crimson Moon |
T.REX |
MARC |
19 |
| 82 |
T. Rex |
Children Of The Revolution |
T.REX |
MARC |
20 |
| 82 |
T. Rex |
20th Century Boy |
T.REX |
MARC |
21 |
| 82 |
T. Rex |
Truck On (Tyke) |
T.REX |
MARC |
22 |
| 82 |
T. Rex |
Telegram Sam |
T.REX |
MARC |
23 |
| 72 |
T.
Rex |
Telegram Sam |
T. REX |
TREX |
101 |
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T. Rex |
Chariot
Choogle |
T. REX |
SPSR |
346 |
