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This is a Bolan Society Fan club album not available for retail

• An oft overlooked period of Marcs career but a fascinating one none the less. The seeds for the come back in 1977 were being sewn . songs like New York City, I love to boogie had Bolan back in the charts again
• The very early versions of tracks such as Visions of Domino here still called Funky London Childhood and Soul of my Suit went on to become Bolan latter day favourites.
• The hullabaloo radio sessions had been lost years ago. Capital Radio gifted their entire archive to the National Sound Archive in London but alas the two sessions were not present. Fortunately the Bolan Society was able to purchase tapes from a third party to find they were the owners of the only tapes in existence. These tapes have undergone a thorough cleaning up process but the 1975 session is not as sonically clear as the 1976 session but it is the best we have ever heard them.
• Disc One shows Marcs continued prolific writing process

In the 23 tracks that make up disc one of this set, examine closely, for the first time, what has now been termed 'the lost period' in Bolan's career. A period that saw Marc decamp to America, firstly to avoid the crippling Tax restrictions in the Uk and to continue his never ending assault on the American music market...

Official releases from this period also show a very disjointed approach, with Zinc Alloy & Zip Gun being chuncated into 'Light Of Love' for USA market. The Futuristic Dragon album that finally saw the light of day in February 1976, had in fact been sitting in the can in a near completed form since the tail end of 1974...

The material included here, probably only scratches the surface at the alternative musical world Marc was inhabiting at this time. Of these 23 tracks only reworkings of 'Magical Moon and 'New York City' ever received some kind of formal release during Marc's lifetime. The other 21 tracks offer an eclectic mix of a man desperately working on new sounds, styles and ideas... A great many of which were being put onto tape using American musicians, rather than the tired mid seventies incarnation of T.Rex based in the Uk... Although few of these tracks are completely finished.

Almost all of the songs are close to final vocal, production mixes... As with the previous releases in this series. New master tapes have been unearthed for many of the recordings and the entire set is presented in a uniformed manner for the first time ever...

Hundreds of pounds have been spent on improving the sound quality by cleaning up the tapes and re mastering .

layout/design les clark

DISC ONE

1. Funky London Childhood
2. Savage Beethoven
3. Metropolis Incarnate / Teenage Angel
4. City Port
5. Bolan's Zip Gun
6. Brain Police
7. Bust My Ball
8. Reelin' & A Rockin'
9. Sanctified
10. By The Light Of The Magical Moon
11. Rip It Up
12. Teenager In Love
13. Love For Me
14. Sparrow
15. Saturday Night
16. I Never Told Me
17. Ain't That A Shame
18. I Believe
19. Do I Love Thee
20. Two Tone Lady
21. Walking Through That Door
22. New York City
23. Swahili Boogie

TRT 77 mins

DISC TWO

1 . The Flo And Eddie Show Broadcast USA 1st January 1975. Includes Marc & Mickey Interview

HULABALOO 1975
2. Capital Radio Intro
3. Marc Interview
4. 20th Century Boy
5. Marc Interview & Phone In
6. New York City
7. Capital Ads / Marc Interview
8. Soul Of My Suit
9. Marc Interview
10. Get It On

HULABALOO 1976
11. London Boys
12. Funky London Childhood
13. Marc Link
14. Dreamy Lady
15. Teenager In Love
16. New York City
17. Capital Radio Jingle
18. Get It On
Live rehearsal Scorpio Sound 1975

WIMBELDON THEATRE AUGUST 1976
19. I Love To Boogie
20. Funky London Childhood
21. Soul Of My Suit
22. New York City
23. Laser Love
24. I Love To Boogie (Live 76 Bonus track )

T.R.T. 76 mins