Marc Bolan - Marc Bolan at the BBC [Box Set] (2013) [email protected] Beolab1700
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Marc Bolan - Marc Bolan at the BBC [Box Set]
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Artist...............: John's Children
Album................: Marc Bolan at the BBC
Genre................: Rock
Source...............: CD
Year.................: 2013
Ripper...............: EAC (Secure mode) / LAME 3.92 & Asus CD-S520
Codec................: LAME 3.99
Version..............: MPEG 1 Layer III
Quality..............: Insane, (avg. bitrate: 320kbps)
Channels.............: Joint Stereo / 44100 hz
Tags.................: ID3 v1.1, ID3 v2.3
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Posted by............: Beolab1700 on 07/04/2014
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Tracklisting
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Disc 1: John’s Children and Tyrannosaurus Rex
John’s Children: BBC Radio One – Saturday Club (transmitted: 6/17/1968)
Jagged Time Lapse
Interview with John Hewlett
The Perfumed Garden of Gulliver Smith
Daddy Rolling Stone
Hot Rod Mama
Top Gear jingle
BBC Radio One – Top Gear (recorded 10/30/1967)
Highways (with chat)
Dwarfish Trumpet Blues (with chat)
Scenescof (with interview)
Child Star (with chat)
Pictures of Purple People (with interview)
Hot Rod Mama (with interview)
BBC Radio One – Top Gear (transmitted 3/24/1968)
Knight (with chat)
Frowning Atahuallpa (with chat)
Strange Orchestras
Afghan Woman (with chat)
Deborah (with chat)
Mustang Ford (with chat)
BBC Radio One – Top Gear (transmitted 7/14/1968)
Stacey Grove (with chat)
One Inch Rock (with chat)
Salamanda Palaganda (with chat)
Eastern Spell (with chat)
Wind Quartets (with chat)
BBC Radio One – Voice of Pop (transmitted 9/21/1968)
Juniper Suction (Poem)
Juniper Suction (song with interview)
BBC Radio One – Top Gear (transmitted 11/10/1968)
The Friends (with chat)
Conseuala (with chat)
The Seal of Seasons (with chat)
Evenings of Damask (with chat)
The Travelling Tragition
Disc 2: Tyrannosaurus Rex
BBC Radio One – Top Gear (transmitted 2/16/1969)
Pewter Suitor (with chat)
BBC Radio One – Top Gear (transmitted 5/11/1969)
Interview with Brian Matthews
Chariots of Silk
Once Upon the Seas of Abyssinia (with chat)
Nijinsky Hind (with chat)
The Misty Coast of Albany (with chat)
Iscariot (with chat)
BBC Radio One – Night Ride (recorded 6/11/1969)
A Star of Youth (Poem with Interview)
A Ship of Rhythm (Poem with Interview)
The Winged Man with Eyes Downcast to the Moon (Poem with Interview)
BBC Radio One – Top Gear (transmitted 11/17/1969)
Interview with Brian Matthews
Fist Heart Mighty Dawn Dart
Pavilions of Sun
A Day Laye
By the Light of a Magical Moon
Wind Cheetah
BBC Radio One In Concert (recorded 1/1/1970)
Hot Rod Mama
Deborah
Pavilions of Sun
Dove
By the Light of the Magical Moon
Elemental Child
The Wizard
Disc 3: T. Rex
BBC Radio One – Top Gear (recorded 10/26/1970)
Ride a White Swan
Jewel
Elemental Child
Sun Eye
BBC Radio One – Sounds of the 70s (transmitted 11/16/1970)
My Baby’s Like a Cloud Form
Funk Music (Jam)
BBC Radio One – Dave Lee Travis show (recorded 12/9/1970)
Summertime Blues
Jewel
Hot Love
BBC Radio One – In Concert (transmitted 12/20/1970)
Debora
Elemental Child
Woodland Bop Medley: Woodland Bop/Conesuala/The King of the Mountain Cometh/Woodland Bop
Ride a White Swan
Jewel
Disc 4: T. Rex
BBC Radio One – Radio One Club (recorded 3/9/1971)
Woodland Rock (with chat)
Beltane Walk
Seagull Woman (Backing Track)
Hot Love
Interview with Keith Altham (4/16/1971)
BBC Radio One – Radio One Club (recorded 7/20/1971)
Jeepster
Get It On
Electric Boogie (with chat)
BBC Radio One – Sounds of the 70s with Bob Harris (recorded 8/3/1971)
Bob’s On (jingle)
Sailors of the Highway
Girl
Cadilac (with chat)
Jeepster
Life’s a Gas
Christmas is a Good Time (jingle)
Interview with Tony Norman (12/14/1971)
Telegram Sam (Peter Powell Show – 1/29/1972)
Interview with Keith Altham (2/5/1972)
Disc 5: T. Rex (all mixes done specifically for the BBC)
Metal Guru
Interview with Andrew Salkey (5/13/1972)
The Slider
Mystic Lady
Rock On
Main Man
Interview with Johnny Moran (8/26/1972)
Children of the Revolution (transcription, September 1972)
Solid Gold Easy Action
20th Century Boy
Free Angel
Interview with Nick Horne (3/6/1973)
Rapids
Mad Donna
The Grover (David Hamilton Show – June 1973)
Midnight
Disc 6: T. Rex (all mixes done specifically for the BBC)
Interview with Anne Nightingale (6/26/1973)
Black Jack – Big Carrot
Truck On (Tyke)
Sitting Here
Teenage Dream
Interview with Michael Wale (1/11/1974)
Light of Love
Explosive Mouth
Zip Gun Boogie
Space Boss
New York City
Dreamy Lady (David Hamilton Show – 9/23/1975)
Do You Wanna Dance (David Hamilton Show – 9/23/1975)
Interview with David Hamilton for Insight
Interview with Anne Nightingale for Insight
I Love to Boogie (David Hamilton Show – 6/18/1976)
Celebrate Summer (David Hamilton Show – 8/19/1977)
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When Marc Bolan entered the world of rock & roll after a brief stint as a teenage model, his path was winding and full of sharp turns. Almost every step of the way, the British Broadcasting Corporation was in full support of Bolan‘s remarkable evolution, and Marc Bolan at the BBC is an exhaustive collection of archived performances from various showcases and concert broadcasts during his endlessly productive years of 1967-1977.
The six-volume collection offers over 100 tracks of on-air performances and interviews, beginning with Bolan‘s contributions to the relatively short-lived mod psych group John’s Children. Early on in the collection, it’s amazing to see just how quickly things were moving and shifting for Bolan.
John’s Children and Tyrannosaurus Rex offer up two very different readings of Bolan‘s early boogie rocker “Hot Rod Mama,” downshifting from high-powered guitar rock to a proto-hippie mystical folk approach on recording dates that happened just three months apart. Throughout his career, Bolan never wasted time on drastic transitions, and At the BBC highlights this with grainy fidelity footage of all his various phases. There’s an interesting series of tracks that sees Marc reciting Tyrannosaurus Rex‘s spectral lyrics in poem form before sometimes launching into their respective tunes. Different performances from the Top Gear program chronicle T. Rex‘s early-’70s minimal pop days with spare tunes like “My Baby’s Like a Cloud Form,” as well the band’s rise to glam superstardom in the ’70s with performances of hits from Electric Warrior, The Slider, and less popular later albums like Dandy in the Underworld. The amount of material here is staggering, and some of the recording quality is exceptionally spotty, but the package gives an idea of just how ravenous Bolan‘s creative appetite was and how much he gave the world in his tragically short life. While not a particularly great jumping-off point for new fans due to the mass of interviews and repeated songs, super fans will find new layers of the T. Rex story as well as deep cuts
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