T. Rex Publishing Contract

Marc Bolan’s composition “Planet Queen” appears on T. Rex’s landmark 1971 Electric Warrior album, oft considered the defining album of the glam rock scene. Producer Tony Visconti, who worked on eight T. Rex LPs including Electric Warrior, described his first impressions of Bolan: “What struck me was Marc’s voice, the melody and of course his charisma, because he was absolutely beautiful – he was one of the most beautiful men I’ve seen in my life, I think! The only thing I had any trouble with was I couldn’t understand his diction…Nevertheless, when I got into the lyrics [I] understood them...He’d show me the page of lyrics before we’d record them and I thought, ‘Wow, this is stunning stuff.’ He was into Tolkien stuff like Lord of The Rings and The Hobbit, and he’d created a kind of mythological world. To this day, I rate his poetry as some of the best I’ve ever worked with and his lyrics [too].”