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Marc Bolan lived at 31 Clarendon Gardens in Maida Vale from 1970<\/p>\n
Glam rock star Marc Bolan has been honoured with a blue plaque outside the west London home where he wrote and recorded some of his biggest hits.<\/p>\n
The singer and guitarist, the frontman of glam rock band T. Rex, died in a car crash in 1977 at the age of 29.<\/p>\n
The unveiling of his plaque coincides with the release of unheard T. Rex track I’m Dazed, recorded in 1975, and an alternate take of Billy Super Duper – both of which were discovered on studio tapes said to be “long forgotten”.<\/p>\n
The plaque was unveiled at 31 Clarendon Gardens, Maida Vale, the address where Bolan lived with his wife June from late 1970.<\/p>\n
Yes keyboardist Rick Wakeman, who also played on T. Rex recordings, said: “I am pretty sure that if Marc is with us in spirit today he’d be absolutely thrilled to see the blue plaque and probably would write a song about it.<\/p>\n
“Marc was a truly remarkable person, with an extraordinary clarity of vision about what he wanted to achieve – a quality that made him unique across so many musical, fashion and artistic forms.”<\/p>\n
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Mark Bolan died in a car crash at the age of 29<\/p>\n
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Stars of music including The Damned’s Rat Scabies (left) and Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie (right) attended the unveiling<\/p>\n
BBC Radio 3 presenter and English Heritage blue plaques panel member Petroc Trelawny said: “Marc Bolan was not just a hitmaker, he was a visionary who led a glitter-drenched revolution that transformed the sound – and style – of the 70s.”<\/p>\n
He added: “This plaque in Maida Vale marks the building he called home at the peak of his artistry: from here, he captured the imagination of a generation.”<\/p>\n
Bolan, who lived in London all his life, left the first-floor flat late in 1972 because of unrelenting attention from fans, English Heritage said.<\/p>\n
Between November 1970 and June 1973 T. Rex had 11 top 10 hits with singles including Hot Love, Metal Guru and 20th Century Boy.<\/p>\n
Bolan joins other notable musicians commemorated by the blue plaques scheme, from Freddie Mercury to Jimi Hendrix and John Lennon.<\/p>\n
The London blue plaques scheme, now run by English Heritage, started in 1866 and is thought to be the oldest of its kind in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BBC Marc Bolan lived at 31 Clarendon Gardens in Maida Vale from 1970 Glam rock star Marc Bolan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-181218","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}