A young Marc Bolan, newly crowned by the charts, pushes back against the idea that success equals compromise — and steps boldly into the era that would make him a star.

A vanished broadcast reconstructed through fragments — a reminder of how much of Britain’s pop‑television heritage survives only through private recordings and memory

A film meeting that led nowhere instead placed Bowie on the Royal Albert Hall stage — a quiet turning point in a career about to ignite.

A portrait of Bowie before the breakthrough — theatrical, tender, and searching — The World of David Bowie captures the moment just before everything changed.

David Bowie’s 1970 Mercury single The Prettiest Star, featuring Marc Bolan on guitar, failed to chart but became a key early milestone in his evolution.

A heavy, swaggering reinvention, “Brontosaurus” marked Roy Wood’s emergence as a theatrical frontman and set the stage for the wild, technicolour decade that followed.

In early 1968, Tony Visconti walked into Middle Earth and saw a duo unlike anything he had encountered in London’s psychedelic underground. Marc Bolan and Steve Peregrin Took sat cross‑legged on the floor, weaving strange, hypnotic songs over hand‑drummed rhythms. That night, Visconti approached Bolan, offered his card, and unknowingly set the stage for one of the most important producer‑artist relationships of the era

A pop‑rock hit backed with one of the most important instrumental sessions of the 1960s.

The Manish Boys’ 1965 Parlophone single featuring Bowie’s first released composition and a Jimmy Page guitar solo.