This week on Teenage Kicks we'll feature Marc Bolan - T Rex, born Sept. 30, 1947. He started as a folkie writing songs about hippies and elves, and he famously claimed to have spent time with a wizard in Paris who gave him secret knowledge and could levitate. Ok. Eventually as the '60s turned into the '70s he found success turning up the Chuck Berry guitar grooves and creating glam rock - rivaling his frenemy David Bowie to rule the English scene, and some success in America too (bang and gong, get it on, get it on) After the hits ended and punk started, Marc Bolan was staging a comeback - hosting his own TV show in England -- when tragedy struck, losing his life in a car crash on September 16, 1977.

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