MM Readers Rant on Rotton Records The one-page letters page in Melody Maker (February 2, 1974) featured reader complaints about the state of music, with one letter titled “Blame Yourselves for rotton records!” arguing that the public no longer recognises and rewards true talent, forcing listeners to endure rubbish like Donny and Marie, the New Seekers, T. Rex, and Dawn. It claimed these acts replaced the Beatles and Stones as kings of popular music, with Slade the only enjoya

Bolan's First Solo Single Launch Published in the UK on February 2, 1974, Melody Maker’s one-page advert announced Marc Bolan’s first solo single “Whatever Happened? to the Teenage Dream” as out now. Advert Overview Publication Details Magazine: Melody Maker (UK). Date: February 2, 1974. Format: One-page single advert. Do you have this Melody Maker advert in your archive? Ready for Whatever Happened? Share in the comments!

Bolan's Glasgow Comeback Chaos The two-page feature in Sounds (February 2, 1974) reviewed T. Rex’s second night of their first tour in two years at Glasgow Apollo under the pseudonym Zinc Alloy And The Hidden Riders Of Tomorrow. It described a fan vaulting seats toward the stage, Marc Bolan rising from a glittering star-shaped podium, and the crowd’s piercing screams and chaos, including a power cut interruption, Bolan’s fall from the dais, and a guitar thrown into the audien

T.Rex’s "Truck Off Dates" , a one-page article in Music Scene Magazine , February 1, 1974.

Disc, cover and one-page feature in January 26, 1974. The Marc Bolan Page I'VE BEEN in the business seven years now and during that time I've had to take an awful lot of slagging, but let it be understood it's gonna take a hell of a lot of brain-washing by the media in order to get rid of me Marc Bolan! It's a nice idea for artists to be allowed to write their own columns occasionally, be-cause you get the chance to talk about things that are important to yourself. Like, this

Disc, January 26, 1974. MARC BOLAN AND T. REX "Teenage Dream" (Mare 7). Good old Marc! Just when everyone had given him up for dead, sub-merged under a pile of tuneless drivel, he comes up with a really good single. It has good lyrics, an incredib-ly memorable refrain, and above all it's different. I'm not going to stick my neck out though Top Three, I'd say! Undoubtedly, some people are going to hate it, but that's nothing new to T. Rex. And this time Marc Bolan will have th

Scrapbook article, published January 21, 1974. T. REX are to make their first big tour of Britain for more than two years with a special new stage production and album to follow. The tour, which begins at City Hall Newcastle on January 21, will be the first time that audiences in Britain have been able to see the act that Marc Bolan has taken to America, Australia and the Far East in the past year. Other tour dates are: Apollo, Glasgow (January 22), Sheffield City Hall (24),

Bolan's Zinc Alloy Reveal Tease Published in the UK on January 19, 1974, Melody Maker’s one-page small article “Truck on, Zinc” announced Marc Bolan’s upcoming persona shift to Zinc Alloy — a playful, prophetic name he had mentioned years earlier: “If ever I get into the chart, I'm going to change my name to Zinc Alloy.” The piece recapped T. Rex’s hits (“Telegram Sam,” “Truck on Tyke”), noted Bolan’s two-year absence from touring, and teased the launch of his first major tou

Music Scene magazine, January 1, 1974.

Ringo Starr's Ringo One-Page Review in Circus Magazine, January 1, 1974.