T-Rex

70's glam rock icons T. Rex were the creation of Marc Bolan and played amped-up rock & roll with boogie rhythms, flights of lyrical fancy, and crunching guitars. Beginning with the 1970 single "Ride a White Swan," Bolan tapped into the basics of rock and pop while dressing them up in equal amounts of mystical poetry and down-to-earth raunch. Songs like "Bang a Gong (Get It On)" and the album Electric Warrior defined the T. Rex sound, The Slider perfected it, and each album that followed took a big swing and, more often than not, especially on 1974's funk- and soul-influenced Z...