Recorded in 2003, it was released just over a year later by Ulftone Music and was a tribute album to Marc Bolan of the British band T. Rex.
Magnet Magazine wrote of the album, "Drew Mill's quavering voice -- with its pinch of Donovan, gram of Marc Bolan and healthy dose of Lawrence Hayward -- immediately conjures psychedelic fields and starry skies.".
Aged ten, Shapiro was a singer with "Susie and the Hula Hoops," (with her cousin, 60s singer, Susan Singer) a school band which included Marc Bolan (then using his real name of Mark Feld) as guitarist.
Paul Varley has one daughter, Ilona, born in 1977, a result of his relationship with June Child-Bolan, the former wife of Marc Bolan of the band T.Rex.
For the musician previously known as 'Toby Tyler', see Marc Bolan.
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He was drumming under his real name for a group called Legend, fronted by Mickey Jupp, when Marc Bolan, the man behind the new-found success of T. Rex, spotted him and asked producer Tony Visconti to approach him.
Paul Quigley also acted in the lead role in two promo videos for Bronze Records' heavy metal band Girlschool in their singles "20th Century Boy", a cover version of the Marc Bolan hit of the 1970s, and "Play Dirty", which both featured on Girlschool's 1983 album of the same name, produced by Slade's Noddy Holder and Jimmy Lea.
In September 1997, former T. Rex members Mickey Finn, Jack Green, and Paul Fenton were invited by Mick Gray (a.k.a. Marmalade), former T.Rex tour manager, to a 20th/50th Anniversary concert to celebrate the music of Marc Bolan, taking place at the Cambridge Corn Exchange, where Gray was manager.
While just as bloody and disturbing as the collection it is based on, Bloody Ukiyo-e also show cases a higher degree of full frontal nudity, sexual perversion and includes pop-culture references and modern real life events, such as painting a gun wielding Marc Bolan as a mercenary or the suicide of Adolf Hitler.
The coffin was carried out of the church to the strains of Marc Bolan's "20th Century Boy".
He appeared on all of Marc Bolan's most memorable hit singles from "Ride a White Swan" (1970) to "Laser Love" (1976), as well as the albums Electric Warrior (1971) to Dandy in the Underworld (1977).
Marc Bolan and Gloria Jones, Gary Glitter, Peter and Gordon, and Bobby Vinton made versions called "To Know You Is to Love You".
The band’s sound was somewhat more refined than on their debut album, influenced by Marc Bolan and Elvis Presley, and its use of a music-as-sex metaphor was a Bowie theme used on several tracks stretching right back to his glam days.