T. Rex ‘Whatever Happened To The Teenage Dream 50th Anniversary Deluxe Box Set.
T. REX 1973 ‘WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE TEENAGE DREAM?’ 50th ANNIVERSARY
DELUXE 5-LP ORANGE VINYL BOXSET
DELUXE 4-CD BOXSET
1-LP VINYL ‘MARC BOLAN SONGWRITER: 1973’
RELEASED 26th MAY ON DEMON RECORDS
PRE-ORDER HERE http://trexbolan.lnk.to/1973
D2C EXCLUSIVE A4 PRINT OF TONY VISCONTI’S SCORE FOR
‘WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE TEENAGE DREAM?’
‘20th CENTURY BOY’
THE FIRST IN A SERIES OF 7” PICTURE DISCS
LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES
RELEASED 19th MAY
ON DEMON RECORDS PRE-ORDER HERE
Demon is proud to present the fourth instalment of the critically acclaimed ‘Year’ series featuring the works of Marc Bolan and T. Rex. ‘Whatever Happened To The Teenage Dream?’ covers the 50th anniversary of 1973 and takes in a very active period of musical change for Bolan recording both in the US and Europe.
The 4CD and 5LP sets include the ‘Tanx’ and ‘Zinc Alloy’ albums, along with the non-album hit singles & B-sides, including ‘Children Of The Revolution’, ‘Solid Gold Easy Action”, ‘20th Century Boy’ and ‘The Groover’ as well demos and outtakes from both albums. The sets also focus on Marc’s initial forays into the world of soul music and highlights from the unfinished album he wrote and produced for the American singer ‘Sister’ Pat Hall. There is also a single album anthology entitled ‘Songwriter: 1973’.
Both the 4CD & 5LP sets feature a brand new 16,000-word essay by acknowledged Bolan authority and author Mark Paytress, detailing Bolan’s life through this eventful period along with many previously unpublished photos taken by Keith Morris, as well as ephemera from the era.
As 1973 got underway, Bolan astutely realised that the Glam Rock world he had pioneered had become crowded and trite in his wake. He knew he would not stick around that scene and had to move on musically.
For the cover story of the 16 June 1973 issue of Melody Maker, Bolan declared, “Glam Rock Is Dead”. “I don’t want to go on the road now for fear of being involved in the dying embers of Glam-Rock. I don’t feel involved in it, even if I started it. It’s not my department anymore and personally I find it very embarrassing.”
Within weeks, Bolan’s peers followed suit; on 2 July 1973, Brian Eno left Roxy Music and the following day, David Bowie killed off Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars at their final concert at the Hammersmith Odeon.
Having completed the fourth T. Rex LP ‘Tanx’, released on 16th March 1973, Bolan began planning the recording of a new LP with additional musicians, including American backup singers ‘Sister’ Pat Hall and Gloria Jones. Bolan later wrote and produced nine tracks for a solo Pat Hall album which was ultimately shelved. The music featured a hybrid of T. Rex and US soul musicians and can be heard in this new 1973 box set.
During this time, Bolan fully embraced the US soul sounds he’d heard on their stateside tours. The subsequent album recorded in Munich in 1973, ‘Zinc Alloy’ incorporated these R&B influences and those of his new partner, the singer Gloria Jones, into his songwriting. It was the final T. Rex album to be produced by Tony Visconti, with Bolan nabbing a co-producer credit for the first time.
The album’s full title is ‘A Creamed Cage In August’ from the band ‘Zinc Alloy and the Hidden Riders of Tomorrow’ as Bolan wanted to drop the T. Rex name altogether for this record and even toured the UK in January 1974 using the Zinc Alloy moniker. John Kosh, who worked with The Beatles, The Plastic Ono Band and The Rolling Stones, designed an award-winning multi-fold latticed sleeve for the release which utilised the Zinc Alloy name without mentioning T. Rex at all, but EMI got cold feet at the last minute and insisted on the addition of a “Marc Bolan & T. Rex” flash on the sleeve’s corner. The Beatles were put under similar pressure for their Kosh-designed Abbey Road sleeve but held their ground. Over time the record has come to be known as “Zinc Alloy” although, like The White Album, that was not its actual name.
As part of the T. Rex 1973 year campaign, Demon Records will be issuing T. Rex’s 1973 singles as 1000-only limited edition 7” picture discs featuring photos from the Keith Morris archive. The first release is the incendiary classic ‘20th Century Boy’, which reached #3 in March 1973. It was Marc’s 9th consecutive top 3 hit single in little over two years, and has since become one of the best-loved T. Rex songs. It has been covered by artists such as Siouxsie and the Banshees, Placebo and David Bowie, Def Leppard, Adam Lambert, The Replacements and Scott Weiland. The song also returned to the UK Top 20 in August 1991, peaking at number 13, after being used in a TV ad for Levi's starring Brad Pitt.
T. REX 1973
‘WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE TEENAGE DREAM?’
50th ANNIVERSARY
DELUXE 5-LP ORANGE VINYL BOXSET
DELUXE 4-CD BOXSET
1-LP VINYL ‘MARC BOLAN SONGWRITER: 1973’
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE TEENAGE DREAM? 1973 4-CD SET
CD 1: TANX
1. Tenement Lady
2. Rapids
3. Mister Mister
4. Broken-Hearted Blues
5. Shock Rock
6. Country Honey
7. Electric Slim And The Factory Hen
8. Mad Donna
9. Born To Boogie
10. Life Is Strange
11. The Street And Babe Shadow
12. Highway Knees
13. Left Hand Luke And The Beggar Boys
BONUS 45 CUTS
14. Children Of The Revolution
15. Jitterbug Love
16. Sunken Rags
17. Solid Gold Easy Action
18. Xmas Riff
19. 20th Century Boy
20. Free Angel
CD 2: ZINC ALLOY AND THE HIDDEN RIDERS OF TOMORROW/A CREAMED CAGE IN AUGUST
1. Venus Loon
2. Sound Pit
3. Explosive Mouth
4. Galaxy
5. Change
6. Nameless Wildness
7. Teenage Dream [single version]
8. Liquid Gang
9. Carsmile Smith And The Old One
10. You’ve Got To Jive To Stay Alive – Spanish Midnight
11. Interstellar Soul
12. Painless Persuasion v The Meathawk Immaculate
13. The Avengers (Superbad)
14. The Leopards Featuring Gardenia & The Mighty Slug
BONUS 45 CUTS
15. The Groover
16. Midnight
17. Truck On (Tyke)
18. Sitting Here
19. Satisfaction Pony
CD 3: PRIVATE NUMBERS
TANX ERA
1. Jitterbug Love
2. Electric Slim And The Factory Hen [alias You Got The Look]
3. Highway Knees
4. Mad Donna
5. Mister Mister
6. Country Honey
7. Rapids
8. Life Is Strange
9. The Street & Babe Shadow
10. Darling
11. Free Angel
12. Left Hand Luke And The Beggar Boys
ZINC ALLOY ERA
13. Change
14. Galaxy
15. Carsmile Smith & The Old One
16. Spanish Midnight
17. Sitting There [Sitting Here]
18. Gardenia & The Mighty Slug
19. The Groover
20. Dance In The Midnight
21. Saturation Syncopation
22. Delanie
23. Saturday Night
24. Till Dawn
25. Stand By Me
CD 4: LOOK TO YOUR SOUL
T. REX
1. Hope You Enjoy The Show
BIG CARROT
2. Black Jack
3. Squint Eye Mangle
T. REX – ZINC ALLOY OUTTAKES
4. The Avengers (Superbad)
5. Look To Your Soul
6. Down Home Lady
7. All My Love
SISTER PAT HALL
8. When I Was A Child
9. Ghetto Baby
10. Sailors Of The Highway
11. Jitterbug Love
12. High
13. City Port
14. Sunken Rags
15. Do Your Thing
16. Tell Me
T. REX
17. Sky Church Music
18. Teenage Dream [Top Of The Pops version]
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE TEENAGE DREAM? 1973 5-LP SET
LP 1: TANX
SIDE A
1. Tenement Lady
2. Rapids
3. Mister Mister
4. Broken-Hearted Blues
5. Shock Rock
6. Country Honey
7. Electric Slim And The Factory Hen
SIDE B
1. Mad Donna
2. Born To Boogie
3. Life Is Strange
4. The Street And Babe Shadow
5. Highway Knees
6. Left Hand Luke And The Beggar Boys
LP2: ZINC ALLOY AND THE HIDDEN RIDERS OF TOMORROW/A CREAMED CAGE IN AUGUST
SIDE A
1. Venus Loon
2. Sound Pit
3. Explosive Mouth
4. Galaxy
5. Change
6. Nameless Wildness
7. Teenage Dream [single version]
SIDE B
1. Liquid Gang
2. Carsmile Smith And The Old One
3. You’ve Got To Jive To Stay Alive – Spanish Midnight
4. Interstellar Soul
5. Painless Persuasion v The Meathawk Immaculate
6. The Avengers (Superbad)
7. The Leopards Featuring Gardenia & The Mighty Slug
LP3: HITS AND FLIPS: THE SINGLES
SIDE A
1. Children Of The Revolution
2. Jitterbug Love
3. Sunken Rags
4. Solid Gold Easy Action
5. Xmas Riff
6. 20th Century Boy
7. Free Angel
SIDE B
1. The Groover
2. Midnight
3. Truck On (Tyke)
4. Sitting Here
5. Satisfaction Pony
6. Black Jack [by Big Carrot]
7. Squint Eye Mangle [by Big Carrot]
LP 4: PRIVATE NUMBERS
SIDE A: TANX ERA
1. Jitterbug Love
2. Electric Slim And The Factory Hen [alias You Got The Look]
3. Highway Knees
4. Mad Donna
5. Mister Mister
6. Country Honey
7. Rapids
8. Life Is Strange
9. The Street & Babe Shadow
10. Darling
11. Free Angel
12. Left Hand Luke And The Beggar Boys
SIDE B: ZINC ALLOY ERA
1. Change
2. Galaxy
3. Spanish Midnight
4. The Groover
5. Dance In The Midnight
6. Saturation Syncopation
7. Delanie
8. Saturday Night
9. Till Dawn
LP 5: LOOK TO YOUR SOUL
SIDE A
T. REX
1. Hope You Enjoy The Show
2. Look To Your Soul
3. Down Home Lady
SISTER PAT HALL
4 When I Was A Child
5. Ghetto Baby
6. Sailors Of The Highway
7. City Port
8. Jitterbug Love
SIDE B
1. High
2. Sunken Rags
3. Do Your Thing
4. Tell Me
T. REX
5. Sky Church Music
6. Teenage Dream [Top Of The Pops version]
MARC BOLAN SONGWRITER: 1973 1-LP
SIDE A
1. Midnight [Master Version] 2:45
2. Down Home Lady [Version 4] 1:42
3. Sitting Here [Original B-Side] 2:20
4. Saturation Syncopation (Alias All Alone) [Version 3] 3:23
5. Satisfaction Pony [Original B-Side] 2:49
6. The Avengers (Superbad) [Solo Electric] 2:49
7. Change [Album Version] 2:47
8. Liquid Gang [Working Version] 2:53
SIDE B
1. Sound Pit [Album Version] 2:50
2. Spanish Midnight [Demo] 0:34
3. Galaxy [Album Version] 1:49
4. Look To Your Soul [Demo] 1:53
5. Teenage Dream [Original A-Side] 4:57
6. Jitterbug Love [By Pat Hall] 2:38
7. Truck On (Tyke) [Original A-Side] 3:08
8. Till Dawn [Take 3] 3:52
T. REX 1973
‘WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE TEENAGE DREAM?’
50th ANNIVERSARY
DELUXE 5-LP ORANGE VINYL BOXSET
DELUXE 4-CD BOXSET
1-LP VINYL ‘MARC BOLAN SONGWRITER: 1973’
D2C EXCLUSIVE A4 PRINT OF TONY VISCONTI’S SCORE FOR
‘WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE TEENAGE DREAM?’
RELEASED 26th MAY ON DEMON RECORDS
PRE-ORDER HERE
T.REX
‘20th CENTURY BOY’
THE FIRST IN A SERIES OF 7” PICTURE DISCS
LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES
RELEASED 19th MAY
ON DEMON RECORDS PRE-ORDER HERE