Telegram Sam Single Review: 1972

Melody Maker, January 22, 1972 .

NEW POP SINGLES BY CHRIS WELCH

T. REX: "Telegram Sam" (T. Rex Wax Company). Like all T. Rex singles, by the third play you get it on. At first hearing, one tends to say: "Gosh chaps, Marc's newie sounds a bit of an oldie." But press the head- phones a little closer and one begins to convulse in a not all together unpleasant fashion.

Boley piles on the guitar riff and the strings topple around him with rocking menace. According to Beep, Marc's famous representative, "Telegram Sam is all of us." And you can find a reference to Bob Dylan if your stylus is less like a rusty nail than mine. It's the first on their own label and now the big question-can the lads do it yet again? T. REX NUMBER ONE AGAIN STOP DO THE BOOGIE STOP START STOP RIGHT ON STOP.