Ezeregy dal, amit érdemes meghallgatni: 0321 T. Rex: Bang a Gong (Get It On) (1971) Writer: | Marc Bolan Producer: | Tony Visconti Label: | Fly Album: | Electric Warrior (1971) After forming as a slightly fey psychedelic-folk group in the late 1960s, Marc Bolan and Tyrannosaurus Rex were riding high in the U.K. charts with their single “Ride a White Swan” when they headed to the United States for a short tour early in 1971. A session in New York provided the first tracks for the Electric Warrior album (the group’s first as T. Rex), but it was in L.A. that Bolan and producer Tony Visconti really struck gold. Hooking up with Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan—Turtles singers who had recently worked with Frank Zappa—at Kaylan’s house in Laurel Canyon after a gig, the band jammed out an idea that Bolan had been working on as a tribute to a Chuck Berry’s “Little Queenie” from 1959, the flip side of “Almost Grown.” Keeping some of Berry’s lyrics (the final recorded version pays tribute to Berry in its fade-out, borrowing a line of his), the result was a handy summation of the glam-rock phenomenon, combining urgent rock ’n’ roll with post-hippy posturing. (“When we do it live, it goes on for twenty minutes sometimes and it’s just loaded with guitar solos,” an ebullient Bolan told an interviewer in 1972.) The song, titled “Bang a Gong (Get It On)” to avoid its being confused with a hit of the same name by the band Chase, became Bolan’s only major hit in the United States. It sold nearly a million copies in the United Kingdom at the peak of “T-Rextasy.” By 1972, T. Rex were selling out arenas in their home country and Ringo Starr had signed up to make a documentary (Born to Boogie) about them. Only a few years later, however, the band had all but split, and Bolan was killed in an automobile accident in September 1977, just a fortnight before his thirtieth birthday. youtu.be/bBin9qC5dKg
Posted on: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 06:07:02 +0000
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