TYRANNOSAURUS REX

Music has always been aligned with myth, fantasy and magic. In rock, though the attention has been slanted toward the visceral, attention has still been paid to the imagination; as John Sebastian said, “I’d tell ya ‘bout the music and it’d free your soul/But it’t like tryin’ to tell a stranger ‘bout rock and roll.” Tyrannosaurus Rex epitomizes that quandry.

The music is mysticism and poetry, taken intact, from the days of King Arthur, Atlantis, Eden, who knows where else. Mark Bolan doesn’t see things quite the way the rest of us do; he’s a little bit spaced maybe, but then again ... if he’s right ... “I draw much of the things I use from the dawn of time. I believe that man, when he was first, was truly first, man had a golden age. All mythologies have one, when man was not eternal, but lived to be five or six hundred years old, when he had complete control, mentally and physically, of his body and of nature.”