"In 1968, an acoustic duo called Tyrannosaurus Rex appeared on the UK music scene. Their singer was an elfin-faced flower child who sang songs about dwarves and unicorns. Two years later, Marc Bolan shortened the band's name to T.Rex, bought a gold lamé jacket and an electric guitar, and wrote a song called 'Ride a white swan'. Overnight he became a teenage idol, his live appearances provoking hysteria unseen since the height of Beatlemania. A string of hits followed throughout the early Seventies, transforming him into the undisputed king of glam and glitter rock. Although his career had started to wane by the middle of the decade, he was one of the few of 'the old guard' to be accepted by the punk generation: his final T.Rex tour was supported by The Damned, and his TV show 'Marc', provided a showcase for new wave bands. But then tragedy struck. he died in a car crash with girlfriend Gloria Jones at the wheel, two weeks before his 30th birthday. In their unsurpassed biography, veteran music journalist Chris Welch and Simon Napier-Bell, Marc Bolan's original manager, explore the career of the first superstar of glam rock." --