Ride a white swan marc bolan biography

          Rock biographer Lesley-Ann Jones paints a meticulous portrait of the T-Rex front man....

          Like all of the band's songs, it was written by the group's singer, guitarist and founder Marc Bolan.

        1. Like all of the band's songs, it was written by the group's singer, guitarist and founder Marc Bolan.
        2. From mod folk artist to flower power pixie elfin to the king of glam rockers, Marc Bolan was the ultimate chameleon.
        3. Rock biographer Lesley-Ann Jones paints a meticulous portrait of the T-Rex front man.
        4. From mod folk artist to flower power pixie elfin to the king of glam rockers, Marc Bolan was the ultimate chameleon.
        5. The definitive biography of the late T-Rex front man Marc Bolan.

          6. Ride a White Swan

          1970 single by T. Rex

          "Ride a White Swan" is a song by English band T. Rex. It was released as a stand-alone single on 9 October 1970 by record label Fly, and was the first single credited under the band's new, shorter name.

          Like all of the band's songs, it was written by the group's singer, guitarist and founder Marc Bolan. The song was included on the US version of the 1970 album, T. Rex.

          The song was the band's first significant hit, and, according to Ned Raggett of AllMusic, the song "inadvertently founded glam rock mania"[2], although Bolan did not wear characteristic glam stage clothing until the promotion of the follow up single "Hot Love".[3]

          Background and recording

          In spring 1969, after three acoustic Tyrannosaurus Rex albums and an equal number of singles released to limited appeal, Bolan began to make the transition from basing his band's sound around an acoustic guitar to an electric.

          The new sound was premiered on sin