Including the final three T. Rex studio albums – Bolan’s Zip Gun, Futuristic Dragon and Dandy In The Underworld – 10 late-period singles, unreleased rehearsal tapes, and the newly discovered complete recordings from 1977’s MARC Granada TV show, 1974-1977 brings together 5 CDs covering the most overlooked, but arguably most pioneering, period of Marc Bolan’s glittering career.

 

 

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The set features two CDs containing previously unreleased rehearsal takes, mastered and curated from Marc’s own tapes (unearthed towards the end of 2024). A fascinating record of an artist with renewed vim and creativity, they also document how Marc and his band kept the tapes rolling when recording all over the world, from London to the USA, to Germany and France and back to Manchester. 

 

Also included are the newly discovered complete recordings from 1977’s MARC Granada TV show. While the set of T. Rex classics performed on the show (Ride A White Swan, Hot Love, Jeepster and more) has been available before, they’d been taken from broadcast tapes and were of a vastly inferior quality. Presumed lost for almost half a century, these are the original full-length versions as laid down by T. Rex before they were mimed to in the show.

 

There’s also of course I’m Dazed, the “lost” T.Rex single unearthed from those very same tape boxes in 2024. Remastered and released on cosmic yellow seven-inch on Marc’s birthday in 2025 (with a new take of Billy Super Duper on its B-side), it also helped mark the occasion of Marc being awarded an official English Heritage Blue Plaque. The honour made him just one of 5 pop musicians to ever receive the accolade, alongside Freddie Mercury, John Lennon, Jimi Hendrix and Bob Marley. Two very different takes of I’m Dazed shimmer here: the 2025 single version remixed by Steven Wilson, and another, much slower take, led by languid drums, clavinet and piano.