Mickey Finn

With the 'American'-sounding (by T. Rex standards) and below-par "Bolan's Zip Gun", it became clear that Bolan's crew had slid into an all-too-obvious creative crisis.

By the time »Zinc Alloy and the Hidden Riders of Tomorrow« came out, it was clear that Bolan's 'creative muse' had started to desert him and that much rougher times were ahead for T. Rex. The album wasn't without the odd great moment where…

»The Slider« cemented the status of Marc Bolan and T. Rex as the leading glam rock heroes and pioneers, driving the youth of the day wild with their glamorous glaze over rock 'n' roll, pop rock and boogie.

With the masterpiece "Electric Warrior," the first glam rock album in music history and one that sparked a genuine revolution, Marc Bolan and his T. Rex finally struck gold.

With »T. Rex«, one of the more important achievements of his prematurely ended musical career, Bolan was reborn, going from a reclusive psychedelic dreamer to a showman of a glam rock guru. As he gradually molted into an electric guitarist,…

"A Beard of Stars," the most interesting record of Bolan's psychedelic folk era, was already starting to show signs, through its gradual 'electrification,' that a big stylistic shift was on the way.