It’s spring 1972 and Marc Bolan, the rest of T.Rex and producer Tony Visconti – who tells this story – are in a limo travelling from Orly airport to the 18th-century Château d’Hérouville (recently ...

Conventional wisdom says the T Rex catalogue was pretty patchy beyond those astonishing singles – but as this set proves, it’s more compicated than that, writes Alexis Petridis ...

The title poses a pertinent question. After a stellar year (1972), during which T.Rex enjoyed two No.1 singles (Telegram Sam and Metal Guru), played sell-out shows at Wembley’s Empire Pool (now Arena) ...

For Marc Bolan and his band T. Rex, 1972 had been the most fabulous year yet. The Slider, their seventh studio album (and third since the band’s name had been abbreviated from the original ...