Covered in glitter and eye-liner and oozing androgynous cool, Marc Bolan's
strutting boogies and pouty glamour made him one of the great British pop stars
of the 1970s and an iconic figurehead of the glam rock movement. Born Mark Feld
in East London, he was a child actor and model before being inspired by early
rock & roll, flower power and the folk scene and changed his surname to Bolan as
a nod to one of his heroes Bob Dylan. He hung around the Soho coffee houses
recording acoustic, singer-songwriter style tracks and played guitar with the
wild, short-lived mod band John's Chil...